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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 THE LONG NOW: Saatchi Gallery at 40; featuring special commissions, installations, painting and sculpture.

Lates tickets include:

Entry to THE LONG NOW: Saatchi Gallery at 40
Entry to all current Ground Floor Shows
Bar open to 8:30pm
Classes, workshops and creative activations, with basic materials and guidance from the Learning Team provided, plus special guests

Friday 24 April – Inner Landscapes

For the final Late of The Long Now, there will be two workshops on offer, as well as a series of talks on the concept of “now”. Read on for more detail…

Workshops guided by Saatchi Gallery Learning
Taking inspiration from Chino Moya’s Post Human, join Peculiar Arcana, a linocut tarot workshop led by artist Alexi Marshall, where you’ll design, carve, and print your very own tarot card. Alternatively, take inspiration from Tom Hunter’s artwork to create collages that reflect your inner landscapes. As usual, these workshops are beginner-friendly and first-come, first-served.

Flash talks by Long Now London
The Long Now London collective presents a mind-expanding commentary on the works and themes of the show. Speakers spread throughout the gallery will give 10-minute flash talks on how taking different perspectives on the concept of “now” can help us to better understand the human condition, and how those perspectives are presented in art and science.

The talks will take place in two rounds, the first starting in Room 1 on the First Floor at 6.45PM and the second at 7.15PM. Drop in to the talks as you explore the show, or follow the speakers for an alternative exhibition tour. The speakers are:

Richard Fisher: geologist, writer and editor, author of THE LONG VIEW, on the layers of history
Jo Marchant, author of IN SEARCH OF NOW, on why “now” is a psychological illusion
Jamie Stantonian, creative technologist, on how memes are making us post-human
Christopher Daniel, director of Long Now London, on the forgotten art of maintenance
Hardeep Kaur, narrative designer, on the nature of stewardship in the 21st century
Sumit Paul-Choudhury, director of Alternity, on the terrors of the infinite

Bar

Our exhibition partner, De Beers, is supporting this special final edition of The Long Now Lates. On offer to all Lates ticket holders will be a bespoke cocktail inspired by De Beers’s lotus motif from their newest collection, from which participants can draw inspiration for their tarot card designs.

The bar will also serve soft drinks and cocktails crafted by Sip Social.

We recommend booking your Lates tickets in advance to avoid disappointment.

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

Register for a 30-minute slot between 11am – 3pm by clicking ‘Book Now’.

Saturday 28 March – Plasticine Painting

In this session participants will gain the chance to explore abstract art through the medium of Plasticine, this is inspired by the work of Henry Hudson, and Artists like Dan Rees who use plasticine within their work. This is a chance to work tactfully, move away from planning and towards intuitive making.

Friday 3 April – Rag Rug

In this session we are going to recycle materials or “rags” into a giant collaborative rug in response to the ongoing climate crisis which many artists in The Long Now touch upon in their work. During the session we will look at some examples of other artists who confront similar themes in their work and who use found materials.

Saturday 4 April – Distortion

In this workshop participants will explore how artists purposefully distort their perspective by making perspective altering devices and using them to create a series of drawings. This is inspired by artists like Edward Burtynsky, Andres Kertesz and Jeff McMillan who all present their art/subject in different ways to make the audience think/feel something.

Monday 6 April – Tarot Card Making

Taking inspiration from Chino Moya’s ‘Post Human’ which is all about predicting the future, join a printmaking tarot workshop, where you’ll design, carve, and print your very own tarot card. A tarot deck is any of a set of cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling. We will show you examples of different styles that is exist to help you to invent your own.

Friday 10 April – Marbling

Paper marbling is a painting on water technique that can produce results similar to smooth marble. Its a technique that’s been used by bookbinders as well as all sorts of artists. In this workshop we will use water and special inks to make our own marbled paper! You can then keep this as an abstract art piece, or use it to collage with o write or draw on.

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

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Curated by Liminal Gallery, Between Waking and Wanting brings together the work of four artists, Maud Whatley, Fipsi Seilern, Emma Richardson and Chloe Bonfield, each of whom explores the subtle strangeness of interior life: its rituals, its erotic charge, its mythologies, and its moments of psychological slippage.

The exhibition is concerned with the in-between. It evokes a state where the body may be still, but the mind is elsewhere, half-sleeping and half-reaching, moving through dream logic, memory, and longing.

Maud Whatley’s works are like storyboards, drawing inspiration from the uncanny dreamscapes of mid-century cinema. Fipsi Seilern’s intricate drawings on untreated wood conjure the atmosphere of dream fragments. Emma Richardson’s large-scale paintings engage with psychology, transcendence, and female desire, while drawing on the intensity of Baroque painting. Chloe Bonfield’s painted figures appear suspended mid-thought, caught within intimate yet unplaceable landscapes.

Together, these works form a conversation about the textures of mental life, where images flicker without resolution, longing persists, and meaning remains just out of reach. Between Waking and Wanting invites us to dwell in these uncertain moments – not to decode them, but to feel their charge.

About Liminal Gallery

Proving that scale is no barrier to impact, Liminal Gallery is the UK’s smallest bricks-and-mortar contemporary gallery. Based in Margate, Liminal challenges the status quo with a bold and inclusive programme, platforming diverse and resonant voices from across the UK and Ireland.

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Gesture and Being brings together new work from six recent graduates of Royal College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art: Anna Curzon Price, Gala Hills, Katja Farin, Mia Wilkinson, Poppy Critchlow and Qian Zhong. All working within the realms of figurative painting, these artists use their practice to challenge inherited narratives and expectations ascribed to gender, the body and the self. Together, they champion a self-expression that is free and fluid, presenting figures that are unstable, performative, dreamlike, or defiantly unruly.

These artists reflect on how our personal narratives are often in flux with our internal dialogues, external interactions and our environment. Exploring interior worlds – psychological, emotional or symbolic – as much as physical ones, they consider how we are seen, staged and felt within both private and public realms. Domestic interiors, mythical spaces, imagined utopias and everyday moments become sites where tension and connection coexist, and where the body becomes an active, renewed force.

Despite the playful and vivid use of colour, undertones are often unsettling. These paintings are layered with complex feeling, exploring themes of anxiety, vulnerability and discomfort. The environments presented here are both tender and confrontational, humorous and uneasy, where representation is not fixed but continually negotiated, and where the figure emerges as something porous, potent, and profoundly alive.

Participating artists: Anna Curzon Price, Gala Hills, Katja Farin, Mia Wilkinson, Poppy Critchlow, Qian Zhong

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Domestic Relics gathers eight artists whose work excavates the tender, unstable terrain of memory as it is held within the spaces, gestures, and objects of daily life. In this exhibition, the home becomes both setting and metaphor: a site where the past lingers in fabric folds, handwritten fragments, staged poses, and the quiet rituals that scaffold identity.

Across painting, sculpture, and hybrid forms, each artist offers a way of seeing the domestic not as ordinary, but as a living archive, one that preserves, distorts, conceals, and sometimes invents the stories we inherit. Together, these artists form a dialogue about what remains: the residues of physical experience, the subtle reorganising of the past through the present, and the uneasy- but-beautiful ways in which personal history becomes myth.

Participating artists: Theo Bardsley, Lee Cameron, Luna Sue Huang, Jennifer Jones, Matt Macken, Yejin Oh, George Richardson, Justin Tsui.

Curated by Nick JS Thompson & Benjamin Murphy of Delphian Gallery, the artist-run, nomadic gallery and arts platform.

The exhibition coincides with the publication of the new book by Delphian, and published by Thames & Hudson, called The Artist’s Roadmap: Practical Strategies for a Career in Art. The book will be published in March 2026 and be available from Saatchi Store online and in the Gallery.

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Good Eye Projects returns to the Gallery with a group exhibition of artists from their Autumn 2024, Spring 2025 and Summer 2025 residency iterations.

GEP is an artist residency programme founded in 2022. Embodying the artist-led ethos and community orientation of London’s vibrant emerging and early-career art scene, GEP hosts three residency iterations per year at their West London location, providing six artists per edition with free studio space in which to create. Since launching, GEP has supported 60 artists, and has presented off-site collaborations with Christie’s, Collective Ending HQ and Saatchi Gallery.

The exhibition will feature works by participating residency artists:

Autumn 2024: DaddyBears, Lily Bunney, Harriet Gillett, Freya Fang Wang, Derrelle Elijah, Amelie Peace

Spring 2025: Mark Burch, Sofia Clausse, Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Sonya Derviz, Parham Ghalamdar, Amelie Mckee

Summer 2025: Rachel Mortlock, Leon Scott-Engel, Xinyu Han, Elleanna Chapman, Lulu Wang, Lau Yee Vanessa Fong

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Chain of Hope returns with Share Your Heart — a powerful exhibition celebrating the connection between art, humanity and compassion.

Bringing together over 70 heart-themed artworks, Share Your Heart invites leading artists and public figures to offer their personal interpretation of the heart as a symbol of love, resilience and human connection. Each one-of-a-kind work has been generously donated in support of children born with congenital heart disease.

Curated by esteemed art patron Maria Sukkar, the works will be available to view and bid for, both at the Gallery and online.

Contributing artists include internationally renowned names such as Youssef Nabil, Gordon Cheung, Philip Colbert, Gray Malin, Chris Levine and Nabil Nahas, alongside celebrated public figures including Gillian Anderson, Olivia Colman, Alison Hammond, John Lithgow, Mel B and Shaggy.

Presented as part of Chain of Hope’s Heart Month campaign, Share Your Heart uses the power of art to raise awareness and funds for life-saving cardiac care for children around the world — transforming creativity into hope.

Click here to join the online auction or make a donation.

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The Artist of the Future Prize 2025 launches its inaugural edition with an exhibition showcasing digital art by 10 artists from across the UK and Europe shortlisted for the prize.

Launched as part of Peugeot’s Principal Patronage of Saatchi Gallery, the Prize showcases shortlisted works chosen by a distinguished panel of judges and an overall winner, who receives the accolade of Artist of the Future 2025 and a prize worth £10,000 (£5,000 in money and a media package valued at a further £5,000).

With Innovation as its theme, this first edition highlights artists who push the possibilities of digital art, challenge convention, and invite audiences to see creativity through fresh perspectives. For Peugeot, innovation defines its commitment to pioneering electric mobility and visionary design, while for Saatchi Gallery it underpins a mission to support artists who spark dialogue and expand how we think about art and society.

The work has been selected by a judging panel spanning the worlds of art, culture, and design, including Matthias Hossann (Design Director, Peugeot), Dominic Harris (British artist exploring humanity’s relationship with nature), Darren Styles OBE (Publisher of Attitude Magazine and Rolling Stone UK), Paul Foster (Director, Saatchi Gallery) and Katherine Benson (Exhibition Programming Manager, Saatchi Gallery).

Winner of the Artist of the Future Prize 2025
DYSPLA

Shortlisted Artists
Edd Carr
Filip Haglund
Sally Smoker
Lenar Singatullov
Patchworks Collective – Charlotte Foster, Rehan Moazzam Khan, Yujia Cai, Karstin Naes Hoydal & Matthew Chan
AMIANGELIKA
James David Freeman
Isolda Milenkovic
Lucy Ellis

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PAPER CUT turns the gallery into a giant children’s art table, scattered with crayons, glue sticks, and bright, fragile creations. Among the mess are an abandoned popsicle-stick house, a life size diorama, macaroni paintings, and pipe-cleaner figures caught mid-gesture. Created by PRIEST, the installation reimagines childhood play as social archaeology, exposing the city’s hidden layers of class, chaos, and imitation. Beneath the colour lies London itself: the housing crisis, youth violence, influencer culture, and the weary humour of modern life.

PAPER CUT questions what’s left of art once it grows up, when spontaneity hardens into strategy, and honesty becomes a pose, wondering if the child who first picked up the crayon might have understood it better right from the start.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Picasso