Dulwich Picture Gallery

Join us for the Winter edition of our Late series as we illuminate the Gallery with art and music. Enjoy Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious after hours with interactive art performances, creative workshops, a pop-up bar and more! Collage and Ink Techniques with Beth Fraser Gallery 12, 6 – 10pm (Drop in) Beth is a fashion illustrator and freelance artist whose work combines collage and ink techniques to create bold and tactile multimedia pieces. Participants will learn college techniques and mark making methods to produce a piece of art to take home. Taking inspiration from master's such as Berthe Morisot, Pablo Picasso and Felix Vallotton, Beth’s abstracted figures portray clothing on simplified flat bodies, reminiscent of mid-century poster art. Lino Printmaking workshop with Jade They Art Studio, 6-10pm Session one: 6- 6.45pm Session two: 7 - 7.45pm Session three: 8 - 8.45pm Session four: 9- 9.45pm Explore the process of Lino printmaking with Jade They. Spaces are limited and first come first serve. Earthchild Remedies Linbury Room Session one: 6.30 - 7.15pm Session two: 7.30- 8.15pm Session three: 8.30 - 9.15pm Join us for a special meditation and tea making ceremony. Spaces are limited and first come first serve. Drop in and draw - London Drawing Gallery 2 and 4, 6.30 – 9.30pm Join London Drawing as they pop up 'The Drawing Theatre' in our galleries and immerse yourself in the world of Tirzah Garwood. We will be drawing from powerful models and a seral set as we channel the diverse range of characters depicted in the show- all woven together by live mixed soundscapes. All abilities welcome! Recommended for ages 18+ Chapel Music LA Salami 6.45 – 7.45pm Papa Stokely is a formless jester who has occurred through the necessity of birth and burden; a fool who worries the most for the eternal conflict and laughs the loudest along with the magnificent elemental dogma. As casual as any supernova you will ever meet. One afterthought in the storm of atoms More acts to be announced. Gimlet Bar Gallery 5, 6 -10pm Enjoy a variety of cocktails created by master mixologists at the Gilmet Bar. Want to see the exhibition? The Winter Late is free to attend, but you will need tickets to see the exhibition. We recommend booking in advance.

Join us in Christ's Chapel at Dulwich Picture Gallery on the feast day of St Nicholas’ for an evening of festive music with The Fourth Choir. With music from across the ages, from seasonal sing-a-long favourites you'll know and love to exquisite carols by lesser known composers and readings from special guests... It will be the perfect way to start the holiday season! Please note, entry to Christ's Chapel is via the cloisters, past the café if you're entering via College Road, or before the café if entering via Gallery Road.

Explore the art of play in our next family festival. Get creative, take part in workshops for families of different ages where you can explore the Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious exhibition through marbling, badgemaking, Toy Theatre and many more workshops. Across the day, explore play and collaborate as a family, experimenting with art and experimental techniques to create your own unique art pieces to take home.

Join James Russell curator of Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious for an inspiring introduction to the exhibition. James Russell is an art historian and curator specialising in Modern and Contemporary art and design. His recent exhibitions include Seafaring (Hastings Contemporary, 2022), Extraordinary Everyday: The Art & Design of Eric Ravilious (Arc Winchester, 2022) Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change (Ferens Art Gallery, 2019-20), Edward Bawden at Dulwich Picture Gallery and In Relation: 9 Couples who Transformed Modern British Art at RWA Bristol (both 2018), Ravilious (Dulwich 2015) and Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter (Towner, 2014, co-curator with Sara Cooper). This event includes free entry to the Gallery! This event booking includes a free Gallery ticket. You will receive a promo code via email to book your Gallery tickets. Please allow 14 working days for the promo code to come through. Please contact us on [email protected] if you have any issues.

Join James Russell curator of Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious for an inspiring online introduction to the exhibition. James Russell is an art historian and curator specialising in Modern and Contemporary art and design. His recent exhibitions include Seafaring (Hastings Contemporary, 2022), Extraordinary Everyday: The Art & Design of Eric Ravilious (Arc Winchester, 2022) Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change (Ferens Art Gallery, 2019-20), Edward Bawden at Dulwich Picture Gallery and In Relation: 9 Couples who Transformed Modern British Art at RWA Bristol (both 2018), Ravilious (Dulwich 2015) and Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter (Towner, 2014, co-curator with Sara Cooper).

Craft your own bound book and learn one of the oldest and most elegant methods of decorating paper. Create marble-like designs by manipulating floating (coloured) inks on water and carefully transferring them to an absorbent paper. In this workshop you will experiment with paper marbling, and learn different bookbinding techniques, before creating a final book with your marbling designs to take home at the end of the class.

Explore the process of woodblock printmaking with Jade They. In this workshop you will learn how to transfer your image to a woodblock. You’ll be introduced to the woodcarving process, carving and printing from wood blocks inspired by Tirzah Garwood. About Jade They Jade is a printmaker and illustrator based in South London. Her artist prints are often centred on literature, landscapes & her Chinese / English background. Her illustration clients include SAGA, The Boston Journal, Delayed Gratification magazine and Studio Pensom, amongst others. Find out more here.

Artists YARA + DAVINA give free card readings on select Sundays based on their new ORACLES project, now on display in Gallery 12 at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Oracle cards are tools for contemplation and are not designed to predict one’s future, instead they encourage us to listen to our intuition. These cards have been made by artists YARA+DAVINA, who strive to create collaborative, bold, playful and thought-provoking public art. They take inspiration from the Gallery’s collection of historic paintings, and were developed through creative conversations with local community groups in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham. The cards offer thoughtful provocations for self-reflection. ORACLES is part of our audience-led research project 'The Past for the Present', which connects the local community with our collection, to find new ways for historic paintings to speak to our lives today. Your reading coincides with select Free Collection Sundays so you can enjoy free access to the collection during your visit. Choose the preferred day and time for your reading via the booking link on this page: Oracle Card Readings with artist duo YARA + DAVINA | Dulwich Picture Gallery

Artists YARA + DAVINA give free card readings on select Sundays based on their new ORACLES project, now on display in Gallery 12 at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Oracle cards are tools for contemplation and are not designed to predict one’s future, instead they encourage us to listen to our intuition. These cards have been made by artists YARA+DAVINA, who strive to create collaborative, bold, playful and thought-provoking public art. They take inspiration from the Gallery’s collection of historic paintings, and were developed through creative conversations with local community groups in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham. The cards offer thoughtful provocations for self-reflection. ORACLES is part of our audience-led research project 'The Past for the Present', which connects the local community with our collection, to find new ways for historic paintings to speak to our lives today. Your reading coincides with select Free Collection Sundays so you can enjoy free access to the collection during your visit. Choose the preferred day and time for your reading via the booking link on this page: Oracle Card Readings with artist duo YARA + DAVINA | Dulwich Picture Gallery

Enjoy out-of-hours access to our new contemporary exhibition, Soulscapes which reimagines landscape art and explores our connections to the land around us, accompanied by the spiced botanicals of Black Crowned Hibiscus Gin. Upon arrival at the Gallery, you’ll receive a complementary Black Crowned Hibiscus Gin with curated tonic. Cocktails made using African botanical and fruits will be available to purchase throughout the evening. Black Crowned Gin infuses a delicate infusion of Juniper, Coriander, Arrowroot, Citrus peel, Orris roots, Liquorice and Hibiscus over a classic London dry gin – the ultimate British gin with an African twist.

Out of Frame: After Hours Join us for an evening of tours, performances and conversations exploring LGBTQI+ stories and histories within the art on display at Dulwich Picture Gallery. For more information and to book: Out of Frame: LGBTQI+ Night | Dulwich Picture Gallery Out of Frame has been developed in collaboration with Historian and self declared mythology nerd Sacha Coward and Queer Noise, a vibrant community centered organisation that collaborates with artists from diverse disciplines with a mission to curate and present an array of engaging events tailored to meet the unique interests and needs of our local LGBTQ+ community. The event is part of our Out of Frame series of events created in response to the Past for the Present Project which aims to discover new ways for our collection to connect and speak to our lives today.   Adam All (they/them/he/him) Our evening's compere without compare, will be the one, the only, the ultimate showman, and one of London's drag king pioneers, Adam All! He will be popping up throughout the night to welcome you to our very queer soiree! Out of Frame Pop Up Join historian and mythology nerd Sacha Coward (he/him) for a taster of the queer history tour he is developing for Dulwich Picture Gallery. Meet him throughout the building to hear about androgyny, cross-dressing, Kings that were queens and saucy saints.  Lyrical Lesbian Love Letters Throughout history the intimacy and existence of lesbian relationships has been preserved through carefully coded and hidden love letters. For these pop up performance we will be opening the envelope, unfolding the paper and freeing the love letter from the page in a musical homage to the timelessness and power of lesbian love. tall child (they/them) tall child is the alias for Zha Gandhi, a South East London based musician of Nigerian/Indian heritage paving the way for black artists in the indie music scene. Through brutally honest lyrics, Zha explores their experiences as a queer disabled POC in hopes of creating a space for those who empathise with having their differences being used against them. KARIMA FRANCIS (They / Them) Karima Francis is a critically acclaimed musician and songwriter from Hackney, London, renowned for their innate ability to blend haunting melodies with honest lyrics and alluring ambiance. Their debut album ‘The Author’ in 2009 gained widespread critical acclaim as did her consequent album’s ‘The Remedy’ (2012) and ‘Black’ (2016). Grace Quigley (she/her) Grace Quigley is a queer poet, and co-parent of queer noise. Grace’s work explores dyke culture, queerness, community, London living, mental health, love, heartbreak and laughter. Her recent Offie nominated show ‘BLUEWATER’ received 5 stars in both Edinburgh and London. She is currently a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Kia Matanky-Becker (she/they) Kia Matanky-Becker is a Queer Poet, Performance artist, sculptor and co-parent of Queer Noise. Kia's Lyrical poetry is an unapologetic exploration of queer relationships, friendship and community. They are particularly interested in queer coming of age narratives and their beautifully messy complexities. An over-sharer and attention seeker, get ready for tales of lesbian drama, late nights and the people they fell in love with on the bus this morning. Kia has performed at poetry nights across the country, their performance films are archived internationally, and they were awarded the Poetry Society collaboration prize 2021. Expressions of Gender Expression While gender is commonly perceived as fixed and unchanging, the Dulwich Picture Gallery collection offers a historical perspective that unveils the evolving expressions and fluctuations of gender over time. For these pop up performances we will hear from poets whose writing explores the fluidity of gender and expressions of androgyny. SL Grange (they/she) SL Grange's Poetry Wales award-winning pamphlet Bodies and Other Haunted Houses is published by Seren Books. Online-published poetry includes Letters of No Moment for the National Archives. Other credits include: Difficult Matter, an exhibition of poetry as artwork exploring the life of C17 female shipwright Mary Lacy, Triangle Deptford; A Note to Mary Frith, commissioned by Shakespeare's Globe for Notes to the Forgotten She-Wolves; and audio walks Fleet Footing and Wou D'Uelzecht with composer Catherine Kontz. Their academic writing is included in three new books concerning LGBTQ+ history, performance and community, due for publication through 2023 and 2024. Erce Erce Erce eorþan modor was published in Poetry Wales Autumn edition 2023. Intisar (they/them) Intisar (they/them) is a non-binary multi-disciplinary artist. They explore themes of identity and world views through poetry and music. The mixing of realities, time and the sense of self is something that interests them. Intisar explores religious imagery in relation to their queerness, bringing together their past and present in a unique way Drag King Drawing Room Join us for this immersive life drawing experience responding to E.M. Parry`s (They/Them) durational performance Pricklings, in which viewer/participants are invited to stick pins into an ambiguously gendered silicone body-suit worn by the artist, staging themselves as trans saint, queer icon, fetish object, witch’s poppet, a luck charm, a ritual, a process, a test, a game. E.M Parry (They / Them) is Trans*-disciplinary artist, academic, and award-winning theatre maker, working across scenography, performance, drag and visual art, centering queer bodies and narratives. Straddling and splicing genres and platforms, their work has been staged in the West End, international opera stages, pubs, clubs, ships, lecture halls, museums and haunted basements. They work with, through and for the queer body, squinting at history, flirting with ghosts and the things that go bump in the margins. Principle Bois These pop up performances will present theatrical explorations of gender, the body and queerness from prominent London drag kings and things. Beau Jangles (he/him) is the vintage-style drag king-about-town who The Guardian has called ‘a compelling host’. Beau blends drag, comedy, live singing, and old-school charm and has performed across London, the UK, and internationally, at venues including The Clapham Grand, The Southbank Centre, The Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Kew Gardens, The Barbican, and The Phoenix Theatre on the West End. Wet Mess (They/Them) Wet Mess is a wet mess, horny for your confusion. Let it all out and guess again at the insecure balding white man/p*ssy prince/alien baby. Have a lollygag, think about your fantasy flesh suits, call me sweet prince, and remember Roger in a kaftan. Choose to make some silly campy decisions, with all the hairy thems and dykey men. All I really wanna do is strip for the stripper and drive her home with the dogs. Gimlet Bar Enjoy a variety of cocktails created by master mixoligists at the Gimlet bar.  Funded by The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund – delivered by the Museums Association.

Out of Frame: LGBTQL+ Tour at Dulwich Picture Gallery Join historian and mythology nerd Sacha Coward for a queer history tour of Dulwich Picture Gallery, and discover stories about androgyny, cross-dressing and Kings that were queens and saucy saints. Out of Frame is a series of events which forms part of our Past for the Present Project which aims to discover new ways for our collection to connect and speak to our lives today. Saturday 17 February 11am and 2.30pm; Tuesday 27 February 2.30pm and 6.30pm. For further information and to book: Out of Frame: LGBTQI+ Tour | Dulwich Picture Gallery Funded by The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund – delivered by the Museums Association.

Out of Frame: LGBTQL+ Tour at Dulwich Picture Gallery Join historian and mythology nerd Sacha Coward for a queer history tour of Dulwich Picture Gallery, and discover stories about androgyny, cross-dressing and Kings that were queens and saucy saints. Out of Frame is a series of events which forms part of our Past for the Present Project which aims to discover new ways for our collection to connect and speak to our lives today. Saturday 17 February 11am and 2.30pm; Tuesday 27 February 2.30pm and 6.30pm. For further information and to book: Out of Frame: LGBTQI+ Tour | Dulwich Picture Gallery Funded by The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund – delivered by the Museums Association.

Join us in the historic Christ's Chapel at Dulwich Picture Gallery on the feast day of St Nicholas’ for an evening of festive music with talented Fourth Choir. With music from across the ages, seasonal favourites, lesser known carols from forgotten composers and merry readings. Programme includes: The Night by Toby Young; Away in a Manger, arr. Jacques; Venite Gaudete! by Adrian Peacock; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas arranged by Peter Gritton; Lully lulla, Leighton, Book tickets at dpg.art/whats-on

Skin expert Ksenija Selivanova will guide you through self-massage using high quality facial oils (provided). You’ll then lie down on soft mattresses to rest as Christina guides you through a full body relaxation surrounded by old master paintings in the Gallery. Accompanied by Tibetan bowl sound healing and live classical harp including music by Philip Glass and Debussy.