SECRET ARTISTS EXHIBITION & RAFFLE
Oct
9
to 11 Oct

SECRET ARTISTS EXHIBITION & RAFFLE

This Autumn, from 9-11 October 2026, Art Friend Gallery is delighted to present Secret Artists Exhibition & Raffle at The Batsford Gallery.

Artworks from the hit podcast Secret Artists with Annie McGrath will be on view for the first time in a charity exhibition raising funds for CREATE, a charity that uses the arts to connect, empower, and inspire society’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable people.

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Sea-Scrape: Mike Hullis
Oct
16
to 18 Oct

Sea-Scrape: Mike Hullis

Exhibition opening hours:
Friday 16 Oct: 11 - 6 PM
Saturday - Sunday (18, 19 Oct): 11 - 6 PM

Private View
Thursday 15 October: 6 - 8 PMThe Batsford Gallery is pleased to present Sea-Scrape, a solo exhibition by artist Mike Hullis, bringing together a body of work inspired by erosion, decay and the continual transformation of the natural world.

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Sea Bunny: Effi Summers
Oct
24
to 25 Oct

Sea Bunny: Effi Summers

Exhibition opening hours:
Saturday - Sunday: 12 - 5 PM

Sea Bunny is a messy, textile-based world of playful unease and surreal dreamscapes, where eerie wonder spills beyond the edges. In this body of work, Effi Summers moves between surrealism, abstraction and conceptual art, often blending these worlds together to create compositions that are bold, tactile and at times heavy.

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cold war: vaughan grylls
Oct
30
to 8 Nov

cold war: vaughan grylls

Exhibition opening hours:
Friday: 12 - 5 PM
Saturday - Sunday (18, 19 Oct): 12 - 5 PM

Cold War brings together six decades of work by the British artist Vaughan Grylls, whose practice has explored the landscapes, histories and everyday realities shaped by political division.

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Life Stories: Meet the artist & book launch
Oct
7

Life Stories: Meet the artist & book launch

Join artist Ali Ferguson for an informal afternoon at The Batsford Gallery to celebrate the launch of her second book Life Stories published by Batsford.

See the pages come to life in a pop-up display of work from the book and take the opportunity to ask Ali questions about her work and practice and of course she will be delighted to sign your copy of Life Stories.

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Log Cabin Quilt Blocks - 100 Variations
Sept
16
to 27 Sept

Log Cabin Quilt Blocks - 100 Variations

Exhibition opening hours:
Thursday-Friday: 11 - 6 PM
Saturday - Sunday: 11 - 6 PM

Private View
Wednesday 16 September, 6 PM

Artist Talk
Wednesday 23 September, 6 pm - 7:30 pm.

Celebrating the publication of Log Cabin Quilt Blocks by Batsford, this exhibition brings together the textile work of artist Catherine-Marie Longtin, presenting works featured in the book alongside a selection of additional pieces.

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Stitching Praxis: Claire Wellesley-Smith
Sept
8
to 13 Sept

Stitching Praxis: Claire Wellesley-Smith

Book & Exhibition Launch: Tuesday 8 September: 6-8PM

Stitching Connection, a Workshop: Saturday 12 September - 12-5pm

Exhibition opening times:
Thursday and Friday (10, 11 September): 12 - 5 PM
Saturday and Sunday (12, 13 September): 11 - 6 PM

'Stitching Praxis’ explores innovative ways of working with textiles around the themes of time and place. The central theme, that we experience time through place, and vice versa, emerges through reflection in many years of practice.

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[Un]Seen: Laxmi Hussain
Sept
4
to 7 Sept

[Un]Seen: Laxmi Hussain

Exhibition opening hours:
Friday 4 Sep: 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, Sunday 5, 6 Sep: 11:00 - 5:00 PM
Monday 7 Sep: 11 :00 AM - 5: 00 PM

Welcoming Reception: Friday 4 September, 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Live Drawing workshop: Saturday, 5 September, 2:00 – 4:00 PM; £15 online, £20 at door (tickets here).

Drawing performance: Sunday 6 September, 2:00 – 4:00 PM; join the artist at the gallery, grab drawing material, and join her in her practice as if you were at her studio (free event, book here).

We are delighted to present [Un]Seen, the first-ever solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Laxmi Hussain. Bringing together a significant body of work, this landmark exhibition offers an intimate encounter with an artist whose deeply personal practice has resonated with audiences through its honest, expressive exploration of motherhood, identity and the female experience. We are thrilled to celebrate this important milestone in Hussain's career.

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Photo Poster Project
Aug
29
to 30 Aug

Photo Poster Project

By simply choosing a city and date, creators can join a physical photo poster exhibition (PPP)—and meet fellow creatives in real life.


The Batsford Gallery has already hosted 2 of PPP’s exhibitions, and we are thrilled to announce a 3rd one at the end of August.

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Lana Locke: The Maternal Markdown
Jul
2
to 19 Jul

Lana Locke: The Maternal Markdown

The Maternal Markdown brings together a substantial body of drawings made alongside the ongoing demands of motherhood. Made over several years, the works focus primarily on the artist’s children and form an extended study of early girlhood in its feral, unscripted state.

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Photo Poster Project
Jun
27
to 28 Jun

Photo Poster Project

We are proud to announce the return of the Photo Poster! An event without borders, PPP gathers images from across the globe by makers across continents.

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Phyllis Bray: Myth & Nature
Jun
2
to 21 Jun

Phyllis Bray: Myth & Nature

Batsford Gallery is delighted to announce Phyllis Bray: Myth & Nature, the UK’s first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of Phyllis Bray (1911–1991), a significant figure in modern British art.

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Jessie Cutts: Free Form
May
26
to 30 May

Jessie Cutts: Free Form

Join us to celebrate Jessie Cutt’s publication of Free-Form Quilts and Patchwork. Rather than prescribing exact formulas, Jessie encourages readers to work responsively, cutting, piecing and composing as they go. This exhibition offers the viewer the rare opportunity to see Cutts’s handwork in person, and to visualise the materials, tools and techniques that she skillfully describes in her book.

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Ritual
May
8
to 11 May

Ritual

Showcasing artists working across textile, sound, drawing, printmaking, and writing, RITUAL is a group exhibition that explores how personal and communal rituals inform creative practice, and how artists unconsciously inspire one another through their work and social interactions. 

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And Where Now?
Apr
18
to 19 Apr

And Where Now?

And Where Now? is a multi-part video work developed from footage filmed along Ukraine’s eastern fronts while Dovbush was working as a fixer for international journalists in 2022–2023. Forming an accidental archive, the work approaches the landscape as a ruptured space where time overlaps and meaning destabilises.

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Photo Poster Project (ppp)
Apr
11
to 12 Apr

Photo Poster Project (ppp)

Photo Poster Project (ppp) - a photography exhibition where you can join a real, in-person show simply by uploading your photo through an app - is coming to The Batsford Gallery in London — and we can’t wait to welcome you to this special event!

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Moon Witual
Mar
15
to 22 Mar

Moon Witual

Moon Witual is a collective [w]itualistic space to think about the Moon’s relationship to our existential lives here on Earth. It is asking whether the Moon is more than a poetic mirror but an interactive force on our lives? Through references to descension (into the basement, sleeping, into the psyche) and ascension (capitalism, christianity), Moon Witual is a participatory artwork and installation with film and textile sculptural works that is the second edition of the artist’s project on Wituals beginning last summer 2025

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The Love You Left Behind: Livia Papiernik
Feb
20
to 22 Feb

The Love You Left Behind: Livia Papiernik

The Love You Left Behind brings together Livia Papiernik’s beautifully crafted world where stitch, story, and imagination intertwine.

A Franco-British mixed-media textile artist, Papiernik is renowned for her extraordinary skill as an embroiderer and her ability to transform cloth into powerful narrative environments. This exhibition invites visitors to step inside those spaces — to wander, pause, and become absorbed in their texture, colour, and quiet magic.

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Between Innocence and Reality Visual Narratives of Childhood, Care and Resistance
Jan
17
to 22 Jan

Between Innocence and Reality Visual Narratives of Childhood, Care and Resistance

Between Innocence and Reality is a duo exhibition featuring works by Lin Cheng and Jiarui Jiang, two illustrators whose practices engage visual storytelling as a critical and poetic tool. Rooted in children’s imagery while extending into socially engaged narratives, the exhibition examines how childhood, care, and vulnerability intersect with lived experience, memory, and resistance

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Kairós
Dec
10
to 14 Dec

Kairós

Taking the ancient Greek concept Kairós—the decisive moment of destiny—as its point of departure, this exhibition explores the tension between human free will and fate. Through painting, photography, moving image, and installation, the artists in this exhibition examine how freedom is constructed, limited, and renewed within social, psychological, and structural frameworks.

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Weaving Light, Dreaming Form
Nov
19
to 23 Nov

Weaving Light, Dreaming Form

In this transformative exhibition, fantasy and light transcend their roles as mere escapism and become vital maps to understanding both the world and the self. Two artists, Ketong Xing and Junying Jiang, explore themes of myth, fairy tale, and personal growth through distinct yet complementary lenses.

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Nowhere, Now Here
Sept
21

Nowhere, Now Here

A group exhibition of contemporary art and design, Nowhere, Now Hereexplores themes of home, belonging, and in-betweenness through painting, sculpture, printmaking, speculative design, and installation.

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Book Launch: The Country Common Place
Sept
11

Book Launch: The Country Common Place

Come celebrate the publication of ‘The Country Commonplace’.

Commonplace books are a type of journal used to note down favourite poems, literary extracts, reading lists and more. For The Country Commonplace Book, Miranda Mills curated an anthology filled with her favourite nature poems, recipes from her country kitchen, themed book lists and extracts from classic literature related to country life and the beauties of each season.

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Echoes Between Us / 回想之间 The City Breathes, Mother’s Daughter
Sept
3
to 7 Sept

Echoes Between Us / 回想之间 The City Breathes, Mother’s Daughter

Echoes Between Us explores dualities of intimacy and perception. One artist captures the layered face of Hong Kong—its clarity and blur, order and chaos—through the materiality of light, chemicals, and woven surfaces. The other unveils the fragile yet powerful mother-daughter bond, where love and tension intertwine.

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Undercurrent
Aug
1
to 7 Aug

Undercurrent

Undercurrent is a contemporary group exhibition curated by ArtFlow Studio Ltd, exploring the unseen tensions and subtle emotional currents beneath seemingly calm surfaces. Through painting, video, installation, and sound, the exhibition captures personal experiences of suppression, ambiguity, and marginalization in today’s information-drive society.

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The Book Cover: An Exhibition
Jul
4
to 20 Jul

The Book Cover: An Exhibition

To celebrate the publication of ‘The Bookcover’ a breathtaking hardback presenting Batsford’s rich treasure trove of 20th century, we are thrilled to present a selection of the original covers that have marked the history of the publication house.

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Zhengwei Fan: Of Self, Time, and Trembling Silence
Jun
24
to 28 Jun

Zhengwei Fan: Of Self, Time, and Trembling Silence

From 24th to 28th Jun 2025, Batsford Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition “Of Self, Time, and Trembling Silence”. The exhibition presents an intimate exploration into the fragmented and fluid nature of self-awareness through the lens of nonlinear time. Curated by Ziyi Xiong, this exhibition gathers works that treat the ‘self’ not as a fixed point but as a continuously folding, overlapping temporal structure — a psychological terrain where memory, body, and image are penetrated and shaped by time.

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