What’s happening at Art in the Park?

Pottery Painting Up-cycle Session

Join us on Saturday May 26th from 10-12 to up-cycle ceramic by using acrylic paints to make new planters and work of arts. Please bring a pot or ceramic item to revive and upcycle – which once painted you will take home and love forever!

Open Studio

Join us on June 16th and 17th for our Open Studio. See the artists’ work and the space where they practice, browse our stalls selling artworks and plants and take part in a drop-in terrarium making workshop!

Burgess Park Drawing Club

A new drawing club is running from May-August. For young people aged 8-16. Learn experimental drawing techniques in response to green space. Meet at 2Inspire Youth Club and we will walk together to a location in the park.

Green Elephant Drawing Club

In the Summer, we were excited to work with children and young people from Newington Estate in partnership with InSpire Youth Service. We ran workshops in and around green spaces at the Elephant and Castle and held an end of project exhibition.

We are pleased to announce that Notting Hill Housing are funding some further workshops to enable us to develop the work in Walworth and Burgess Park, with young people from the Aylesbury Estate.

Seasonal Wreath Making

We had another good crowd of people of all ages for our popular annual free wreath-making session with some great creations to take home!

Marking Places

It was a pleasure to work with local people to research, design and make three commemorative markers for beautiful Burgess Park. Our project included a heritage talk to hear ideas and identify sites for markers; collecting photographs, maps and stories from the area; making models, designing and making the markers. We are delighted to have worked with the community to mark the following sites in the park: Market Gardens, North Camberwell Radical Club, the Foundry and other works. Thanks to Big Lottery and to Southwark Council’s Bankside, Borough and Walworth Cleaner Greener Safer funding for this.

Zeppelin 1917 exhibition and workshops

One hundred years ago, on October 19 1917, a Zeppelin bomb landed in Calmington Road. We were delighted to run workshops as part of Friends of Burgess Park Zeppelin 1917 heritage project.

Community Green

Our successful application to Borough, Bankside and Walworth Neighbourhood Fund, enabled us to continue or food-growing and gardening project over a second Summer. The project began in 2016 with funding from the The Mayor of London’s Get Moving fund, encouraging fresh approaches to physical, mental and creative activity for older Londoners. Based in Burgess Park community garden, it was one of only 16 projects in London to receive funding.

Thanks to a small grant from Notting Hill Housing, we also ran Intergenerational Summer Workshops for people to design, decorate and plant containers for their balconies and gardens.

Place to Remember

Place to Remember was a heritage project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, exploring the social and architectural history of four local buildings in Walworth and Camberwell. We were delighted to have so many local people and organisations involved, including ASC gallery who were able to host our final exhibition.
Click here to listen to oral histories and see archive images and artwork inspired by each of the buildings

Pottery Classes for all

Ceramicist Nam Tran runs a great range of classes from the studio for people of all ages and abilities. Come and have some fun! Enjoy clay painting, wheel throwing, ceramics and ceramic painting.

Courses and Workshops

We have many new workshops and projects running throughout the year. See here for more details.