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Boredom-busting art and activities inspired by our current major exhibition, BEYOND THE STREETS. Explore the exhibition, and then let your creative juices flow with this series of accompanying Saturday workshops. Suitable for children of all ages and led by Saatchi Gallery’s Learning team. 

You do not need a ticket to BEYOND THE STREETS to attend, however you can visit the exhibition on the same day by booking a ticket in advance here.

28 November – Stencil It!
Discover the art of stencilling and experiment with different materials, shapes and layering techniques to create your own street art-inspired designs.

5 December – Graffiti Letter Lab
Get creative with graffiti lettering. Experiment with 3D effects, shading, outlines and colour to design bold letters in your own style.

12 December – Printmaking
Experiment with tape and mono-printing techniques to create unique prints, taking inspiration from street artists like Alicia McCarthy. 

19 December – Poetry Word Play
Play with words to create your own collaged poems. Try blackout poetry, painting on text, cut-out poetry and rearranging words in unexpected ways. 

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Join us for art after dark!

On selected Fridays, Saatchi Gallery Lates will offer workshops, guided classes and creative activations along with access to major exhibition BEYOND THE STREETS. 

Lates tickets include:

• Entry to BEYOND THE STREETS
• Entry to all current Ground Floor Shows 
• Bar open to 8:30 pm
• Classes, workshops and creative activations, with basic materials and guidance from the Learning Team provided, plus special guests

27 November

Graffiti Letter Writing
Explore classic graffiti lettering styles, from italics and mixed-case lettering to rounded and angular shapes, and create your own designs.

Customising Clothes and Totes
Join street artist Lee HD (@hybriddesire) to refresh clothing, shoes or totes with your own artwork. Bring an item to customise, or use a provided T-shirt. No artistic experience needed.

4 December

IRIE! Dance Theatre Life Drawing
Watch a hip hop-inspired performance by IRIE! Dance Theatre, Britain’s leading dance theatre company specialising in African and Caribbean dance fusion. Capture the performers in a series of poses. 

Hip Hop Album Sleeve Making
Discover the history of Hip Hop and the impact of album artwork before designing your own vinyl sleeve inspired by this influential music culture.

11 December

Intro to Paste-Ups
Join artists Apparan and Mockwa to explore paste-up street art through drawing and collage. Create your own character or design, then collaborate on a group artwork and take ideas home to develop further. 

More to follow! We recommend buying your ticket in advance to avoid disappointment. 

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Content warning: this exhibition contains references to sexual violence

Through the lens of award-winning photographer Jillian Edelstein, Everyone’s Invited brings survivor voices to the forefront, challenging our perceptions of what it means to survive sexual violence.

With more than forty years of experience documenting people, communities and defining moments in contemporary history, Edelstein is internationally recognised for her ability to confront difficult truths through photography. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and Vogue, and has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery and the Royal Academy. Her acclaimed book, Truth and Lies, documenting South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, cemented her reputation for giving human stories a lasting presence. The National Portrait Gallery has acquired more than one hundred of her portraits for its permanent collection.

“Working with Everyone’s Invited, as well as the survivors has been a special honour. I am so grateful to everyone who gave me their trust and collaborated with me to make these portraits. It is a collaboration, always. The survivors and the team gave their help and support in an unquestioning and beautiful process. Thank you so much.” – Jillian Edelstein

Created in collaboration with Everyone’s Invited, the UK charity dedicated to exposing and eradicating rape culture, One Story at a Time brings together Edelstein’s intimate portraiture and the lived experiences of survivors.

Visitors are invited to discover the places, experiences and people that offer survivors moments of safety, catharsis, empowerment and hope. By confronting the shame and stigma that sustain rape culture, One Story at a Time asks us to reconsider not only what we see, but how we listen, respond and work together towards change.

The exhibition grew from the 53,000 accounts of sexual harassment and violence shared on Everyone’s Invited’s safe space. Together, these stories expose the deeply ingrained expectation of the “perfect victim”: a cultural and legal stereotype that dictates how survivors are expected to look, behave and respond to trauma in order to be believed.

One Story at a Time challenges this stereotype, revealing a simple but powerful truth: sexual violence can affect anyone. Through each portrait, Edelstein explores what safety means to the individual, celebrating the resilience, joy and humanity of those whose experiences are too often reduced to a single story.

Extending the conversation beyond photography, three youth artists – Caroline Lacoma, Sabina Silver and Husam – bring their own perspectives to the exhibition through film, textiles and painting. Their contributions introduce new voices and generational perspectives, creating a powerful, multidisciplinary space where personal testimony meets collective reflection.

Everyone’s Invited hopes this exhibition will encourage you to see survivors differently. Whether you are a survivor or encountering these conversations for the first time, we hope you leave feeling empowered to question the attitudes and beliefs that shape our understanding of sexual violence – and inspired to help build a culture rooted in empathy, accountability and change.

Supported by Akhilanda Foundation.

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The Royal Photographic Society presents Adama Jalloh: Process (2014–ongoing). Adama Jalloh’s work was first exhibited by the RPS in 2021 as part of the Bristol Photo Festival.

Adama Jalloh is a London-based documentary and portrait photographer whose practice explores identity, community and belonging. Born and raised in London, she draws inspiration from the city’s Black communities and the everyday moments that shape a sense of home.

Process brings together over 12 years of Jalloh’s photographic practice, presenting personal projects alongside selected editorial and commercial commissions. Moving between different environments, people and contexts, the exhibition reveals the connections that run through her work: an attentiveness to character, atmosphere and the moments that emerge through encounter.

Across both personal and commissioned photography, Jalloh approaches each person and environment with an instinct for presence and intimacy. Seen together, the images offer an insight into the development of a practice shaped by lived experience, observation and ongoing engagement with the people and worlds around her.

Adama Jalloh: Process (2014 – ongoing) is a Royal Photographic Society touring exhibition. Find out more about RPS exhibitions here and find out more about the artist here. 

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Luke Hannam is an established British artist with an energetic dedication to drawing and a relentless desire to explore images and motifs. This exhibition presents a new body of work by the artist, representing an ambitious leap forward in his practice. Fascinated by making paintings that have an instant, fleshy and visceral appeal, Hannam has developed a more open and experimental context within which to explore painting without boundaries. In this exhibition, Hannam invites you into his nebulous world, in which he brings the physical, cerebral and playful all together.

“Cold Sweat emerged from a desire to find a new relationship between myself and painting, to be less reverential and more instinctive. The motif of the Robot introduced an absurdity, something outside of art resulting in a more intuitive and energetic response. – in a nutshell it helped me forget about the history of painting. Like a great dance record, it became something I could respond to physically, viscerally and intuitively.” – Luke Hannam

Hannam’s practice is informed by an extensive background in music. After graduating from Canterbury College of Art, Hannam moved to Northeast England, principally to paint but also to make music. He spent more than fifteen years running a music college and found success as a musician, initially with his band ENC. During the late 1990s, he founded the band GRAMME, which signed to Trevor Jackson’s hugely influential record label Output Records and achieved critical acclaim. Post Punk, hip-hop and Dance culture went on to have a major impact on Hannam’s creative personality, establishing a deep commitment to mixing languages and styles, which later proved to be fundamental in his painting. His approach to bass playing has often been compared to the way he draws and paints – passionate, brutal and distinctly beautiful.

Press enquiries: Henrietta Roeder, Practise Room, [email protected].

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What makes a moment worthy of history?

Presented by Harvey, Sketches that Shaped History brings together a landmark collection of courtroom art capturing pivotal moments in legal history, by artists whose drawings have shaped how these events are witnessed, understood and remembered.

Where cameras are restricted or prohibited, courtroom artists become both observers and interpreters. Working under extraordinary pressure, they translate fleeting gestures, expressions and moments of tension into drawings that offer a view into proceedings the wider public might otherwise never see. Each sketch reflects a series of decisions: where to direct attention, whose expression to capture, which relationships to make visible.

Together, these works reveal the range of techniques and sensibilities within courtroom drawing. Differences in line, colour and composition show how individual artists approach the shared task of recording justice as it unfolds. 

Works on display include sketches from the trials of Martha Stewart, John DeLorean and O. J. Simpson, alongside General Motors’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and the Apple v. Samsung patent dispute. The collection traces the courtroom’s place in our cultural life: a stage where public reputations, corporate futures and competing visions of progress come under scrutiny. 

Across these varied proceedings, the drawings reveal how law enters public memory. Sketches that Shaped History celebrates the artists who give that encounter visual form, bringing their work into the gallery to be considered for its expressive power as well as its historical significance.

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Local Royalty is a new exhibition from Coca-Cola Great Britain celebrating the café, pub, takeaway and corner shop owners at the heart of communities across Great Britain. 

The exhibition brings together four portraits of independent business owners from Barnsley, Glasgow, South Devon and South East London, immortalised in a manner historically reserved for royalty, titans of industry and stars of stage and screen. 

The portraits have been created by four celebrated artists, each of whom has previously been commissioned to paint a member of the Royal Family.  

• Nicky Philipps, two-time portrait painter to the late Queen Elizabeth II, has painted Pindy Kaur of Ocean Fish Bar in Barnsley 
• Jamie Coreth, who painted the first official portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales, has painted Simon Dafforn-Jones of the Ferry Boat Inn in Dittisham 
• Gareth Reid, portrait artist to King Charles III while he was Prince of Wales, has painted Gino Verecchia of University Café in Glasgow 
• Nick Bashall, portrait painter to Princess Anne, has painted Kaual Patel of Torridon Convenience Store in Catford 

The exhibition comes as new research from Coca-Cola Great Britain reveals that 79% of the public believe the contribution independent business owners make to their local communities is underappreciated. Meanwhile, 87% describe independent businesses as an essential part of life in Great Britain and 80% want to see them celebrated more often. 

Local Royalty is the third instalment in Coca-Cola GB’s ‘Made in Great Britain’ campaign, celebrating the impact of its independent retail partners on local communities and economies. 

Featured portraits: 

• Pindy Kaur, Ocean Fish Bar, Barnsley, painted by Nicky Philipps 
• Simon Dafforn-Jones, Ferry Boat Inn, Dittisham, painted by Jamie Coreth 
• Gino Verecchia, University Café, Glasgow, painted by Gareth Reid 
• Kaual Patel, Torridon Convenience Store, Catford, painted by Nick Bashall 

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FOCUS Asian Contemporary Art is a global platform presenting diverse artistic voices from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. FOCUS showcases the evolving landscape of Asian contemporary art while connecting artists, galleries, collectors, and institutions. The edition in London, taking place from 15 – 18 October, is centered around the theme ‘Cultural Dialogue’ with editions in Paris and New York. It explores how different artistic perspectives, shaped by diverse cultures, histories, and experiences, can come together to create new forms of global resonance. 

FOCUS aims to build an international ecosystem where art, culture, and institutions create opportunities for new connections across borders and industries.

‘Cultural Dialogue’ reflects this vision, positioning contemporary art as a catalyst for cross-cultural connection, engagement, and transformative collaboration. 

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In October 2026, London Art Collective will present ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere, a large-scale international group exhibition bringing together artists working across different cultures, disciplines and lived realities. Through an international Open Call, the exhibition seeks works that reveal how differently the same world can be seen, understood and represented. 

The title begins with a simple contradiction: no one can see from everywhere. Every perspective is shaped by where we stand, what we have experienced and the structures through which we encounter the world. Rather than searching for a single, universal point of view, the exhibition places different positions alongside one another. Some may overlap; others may disagree or remain unresolved. Together, they form a view that belongs to no single person or place. 

The exhibition will be presented through a salon-style display within the white cube. Works will appear in close proximity, creating unexpected connections across geography, medium and subject. Painting, sculpture, installation, photography, moving image, digital media and interdisciplinary practices are all welcome. The aim is not to flatten these differences into a shared message, but to allow each work to retain its own position while becoming part of a wider conversation. 

Curated by Nelson Qin and organised by London Art Collective (LAC), A View from Everywhere will be selected by an international jury of curators, artists, critics and scholars. The jury will consider the clarity of each artist’s practice, the strength of the work and what it brings to the exhibition as a whole. The exhibition does not set out to offer a complete picture of the world. Instead, it asks what might become visible when many partial views are brought together. 

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