Tower Gallery

We have opportunities for artists in residence starting very soon here at Tower Gallery, for a period of up to three months each. The residencies are open to all artists with a local connection and offer opportunities to develop ideas, try out new things, hold open studio events or a small exhibition, plus work alongside the gallery team to curate or support one of our larger exhibitions. The shared studio space is in a beautiful room at the top of the building - so unfortunately is unsuitable for anyone who can’t manage stairs. Email us for full details or to arrange to talk about ideas. We welcome applications from artists at all stages of their careers. #cockneyguggenheim #newhamlondon #artistinresidence #eastlondonartists

@seanworrall_01 has published a thorough review of our Summer Exhibition in the online magazine Organ https://wp.me/p2ScbB-vgv or see link in bio. Thanks Sean! #review #londonexhibition #eastlondonartists #cockneyguggenheim

Residency diary - week 1 Welcome to the tower. I have started my residency at @towergallery.e13 Mostly settling in, finishing my notes, checking materials, making early sketches. There is also a local exhibition called Liminality, on until 7th June, so the space already feels full of conversation. Over the coming months, until 9th August, I will be exploring previous censored texts by medieval women back into the institution that once silenced them: Teresa of Avila, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Joan of Arc. Not their visions, not the religion. I’m here to explore creatively their censored bodies full of ecstasy, pleasure, mental health, bleeding, strength, etc. The roots of this work run deeper than I realised. I defected from the church after high school, after spending all my life in the same catholic school. I learnt Latin, translating Roman and medieval texts; philosophy, art history and history. Pure humanities. Little did I know that years later I would be here working with what marked me, but on my own terms. This is not a return to belief, it is something more raw. How do these bodies still speak in ours? How does their knowledge land in a female body today? Welcome to my journey. #residency #femaleartist #artcurator #medieval #history

Vanda Miller: Don’t know when 2026 For the past 4 years I’ve been living with terminal cancer. I have been creating artwork to express my thoughts and feelings through this process. Here are descriptions of the feelings expressed in each artwork: Don’t know when Cant see it, Cant feel it, Don’t know when. Sitting, zoned out, thoughts fire through my head, this is what I’ll lose from cancer. #cockneyguggenheim #cancer #newhamlondon

Veronica Revuelta Garrido “Attrition reflects the slow erosion that comes from persistent effort, the quiet, repetitive act of showing up even as the body frays. A figure appears to both emerge from and sink back into the fabric, suspended in a liminal state between breakthrough and collapse. Made with materials that stain, burn, and mark, the surface carries the residue of exhaustion as much as creation. Embroidery stitches bind and scar the fabric, echoing the fragile repair work needed to keep going. The piece captures the tension between burnout and perseverance, revealing a body shaped by endurance yet still refusing to disappear hovering on the threshold, never fully arriving, never fully gone.” Veronica is one of our new artists in residence and we look forward to seeing what she creates over the coming three months. @theactivistcurator #cockneyguggenheim #newhamlondon #contemporaryart #eastlondonartists

Hanging out at @towergallery.e13 with friends old and new and still to come. There’s also a great exhibition to see! #cockneyguggenheim #bag #towergallerye13

Another interactive piece: by CuRaeted_Mud - Woman: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made This interactive piece explores the liminality of womanhood, blurring the lines between the private self and public persona. By “tattooing” personal manifestos onto a form clad in lingerie—the threshold of inner and outer wear—it challenges the binary societal judgements of being “too much” or “too little.” The piece invites women to use marker pens to add their own stories of judgement, growth, resilience and advice. As a living work, it mirrors the shifting expectations placed on women. Ultimately, it serves as a collective reclamation of space, encouraging women to remain unapologetically themselves and proud of their own skin. If you’re a woman who’s had her experience denied or devalued by comments from others, come and add the words to this sculpture! @curaeted_mud #cockneyguggenheim #newhamlondon #contemporaryart

Another interactive piece - and one that isn’t! Don’t touch the glass piece please! But you are welcome to engage with CYD. Clancey “Cyd” explores the liminality of the transition between life and death through a disruption of haptic expectation. The viewer is invited to lift the cubes and read question cards to prompt discussion. Visually similar, but with different masses, prompting thoughts as how not everything is as it might first appear. Luminescent Liminality A reimagining of urban nighttime, this work distils the electric glow of a garage into a mosaic of a hundred glass fragments. It explores the ‘liminal’, the space between journeys, through the ‘luminescent’ medium of fused glass. Abstraction created from a photograph of an Esso garage in Whitechapel. @clancey2024 #cockneyguggenheim #contemporaryart #newhamlondon #interactiveart

Opening and Private Viewing of the Liminality Exhibition at Tower Gallery last night 14th of May 2026. A fabulous evening filled with fabulous art and over 150 fabulous people! Thank you to everyone who attended and for all your great thoughts and positive words. 💜 A thoroughly enjoyable experience and heartily recommend! Would go again! Liminality Exhibition Tower Gallery 395 Barking Road London E13 8AL Thursday 14th May 2026 Opening, Private Viewing 6pm-9pm. Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, until the 7th of June, open 3pm-7pm. I have a lot of photographs and will post more over the coming weeks. #cockneyguggenheim #london #artist #glassart #sculpture @theworldofrubykhansart @kateshuretytextiles @williamsazaria @curaeted_mud @c.bobeldijk.art @edsculptor @elizabeth.salazar.studio bethpennaart

Thankyou to the lovely buyer who bought my work @towergallery.e13 Liminality exhibition at the opening event. It’s a great exhibition, I’ll be there on Sunday afternoon if you’d like to pop along for a cuppa, chat and a chance to see some great art! . . #bethpennaart #artworkforsale #liminality #sharingmemories #postcards

Our second interactive piece, by Paul M Jones, is on the top landing. “My work is a mirror hanging inside old wooden cupboard doors hanging on the wall. When you open the doors the mirror will be revealed reflecting the liminal space and artwork it is set in as well as the reflection of the viewer whose portrait / face on the mirror at that point is liminal as it was different in the past and will change over time. There will also be a whiteboard pen hanging from the cupboard which viewers can use to write one word that describes what they see on the mirror. Over the course of the exhibition the mirror will fill up with various words reflecting the viewers observations at that moment in time. The piece itself will evolve over time as more words are added. @paulmj_arts #cockneyguggenheim #assemblage #newhamlondon

Starting off our in depth look at the works and artists showing in our exhibition, Liminality, with one of our five interactive works. Victor Ralph: My House in States of Transition and Liminality “Composed of ten small, re‑sculpted geometric masses of brick from my own house, each form carries traces of a previous structure. They are mainly mid Victorian. They embody classical liminality and can be read as remnants of ruinous states or as indicators of renewal and rebuilding. Primary colours signal transition: blues mark emotional movement, red and yellow suggest interruption and repair, while gold leaf signifies endurance and continuity. Together, the cluster occupies a liminal threshold. They represent neither ruin nor rebuilding. You are welcome to move the bricks if you wish. Please do so carefully and leave them so that they are safe for other visitors.” @artbyvictorralph #cockneyguggenheim #contemporaryart #newhamlondon