Archives: Exhibitions

Join us for flower-themed art and activities suitable for children of all ages – including watercolour, sensory painting, and printmaking. Led by Saatchi Gallery’s Learning Team. 11am – 3pm, Mondays and Thursdays 24 July – 28 August.

Register for a 30-minute slot by clicking ‘Book Now’.

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

These workshops are free of charge, with a suggested donation amount of £5. If you wish to support our charity, we would greatly appreciate a donation so we can continue to make art accessible to all. Click here or donate in person at the Gallery. 

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The RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show 2025 will feature a rich variety of subjects including  stunning Japanese cherry blossom, the unusual ‘kangaroo paw’ plants of Australia, and plants used in traditional cosmetics by Korean women. A common theme in this year’s exhibit is plants that have been relied on by humans – whether for beauty, clothing, medicine or fuel. Portfolio photography features a diverse range of plants, gardens and natural habitats with subjects ranging from Tuscan olive trees to the Acacia cyclops of South Africa’s richly biodiverse Cape Floral Kingdom.

All of the art has undergone a meticulous reviewing process by an expert judging panel and assessed on aesthetic appeal, scientific accuracy and technical skill. Once on display, the artists compete for an RHS medal – Gold, Silver-Gilt, and Bronze, as well as a ‘best in show’ award – Best Botanical Artwork, Best Botanical Art Exhibit, Best Portfolio Photography Exhibit, Best Single Image and Judges Special Award.  The public will once again have the opportunity to vote in the People’s Choice award via the RHS website.

The Show contributes to a long legacy of botanical art collecting and display by the RHS, and complements the work of the RHS Lindley Collections, which holds more than 30,000 botanical paintings and heritage photographs. 

The RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show will be open to the public from 13 June – 27 July 2025 at Saatchi Gallery, London. For the first time ever, the exhibition will be free to enter with visitors invited to make a donation to the Gallery as a registered charity. Click here or donate in person at the Gallery. 

The show is supported by UK-based wealth management firm, TrinityBridge. Once known as Close Brothers Asset Management, TrinityBridge have been helping individuals, families, professionals and businesses to make confident financial choices for more than 30 years.

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Peugeot presents Powered By Nature, an experience where nature and innovation come together. Drawing on Peugeot’s pioneering project of the same name — the world’s first photoshoot powered entirely by plants, soil, and water — this installation invites visitors to see the natural world through the eyes of bees.

As part of the experience, Allure Through a Bee’s Eyes invites you to cross a perceptual threshold—into a realm alive with coded beauty, hidden patterns, and vibrant signals that escape our human gaze. This multisensory installation explores the way bees experience their environment, revealing a rich visual and sensory language where colour, light, scent, and vibration guide survival and sustain entire ecosystems.

Ultraviolet light unveils the secret markings on petals—nectar guides that map out pathways to pollen. These are the signs that bees rely on, invisible to us under normal light, but ever-present in their world. As the lighting subtly shifts, so too does your perception—suddenly, the familiar becomes strange, glowing with unseen energy and natural allure.

Also included is imagery and footage captured by specialist photographer George Williams in the original photoshoot, which was powered by 30 microbial fuel cells developed by bio-design studio Nova Innova, drawing electricity from plants, water, soil, and organic waste. Lighting was generated using a living light module — a system that captures power produced by photosynthesising plants. As plants release excess organic compounds into the soil, exoelectrogenic bacteria break these down and release electrons, which are harnessed by microbial fuel cells and stored in continuously charging batteries.

The installation also features selected works by British artist and printmaker Boo Saville. Known for both monochromatic ink drawings and vividly abstract paintings, Saville’s practice explores themes of life, mortality, and transformation.

Learn more about Powered By Nature here.

Presented in collaboration with Long & Ryle, The Thread of Colour is a celebration of the life and work of Armenian-American artist Maro Gorky (b. New York 1943).

The exhibition features a selection of important oil paintings spanning her career as an artist from the 1980s to the present day. Subject matter includes Gorky’s family, the Tuscan home she has lived in with her sculptor husband Matthew Spender since the 1960s, and landscapes from the Sienese countryside and beyond. 

It includes two large-scale landscapes, Autumn Vines (2025) and Spring Vines (2025). These ambitious works, only recently completed with the last strokes being added just in time for the show, demonstrate that Maro Gorky, in her eighties, remains as powerful and prolific a painter as she was in her twenties. 

The exhibition runs until 12 May and will reopen on 23 May until 8 June. 

An accompanying exhibition Maps of Feelings opens at Long & Ryle until 16 May, and features a selection of Gorky’s works on paper, an important element of her artistic practice. 

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Saatchi Gallery presents its 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden, Three Coverings, with multi-disciplinary artist Darcey Fleming and garden designer Naomi Ferrett-Cohen. 

Three Coverings include an immersive wall hanging, a chair sculpture, and a conical freestanding structure draped with a large woven sculptural form. A winding gravel path will guide visitors through the garden, with the main sculpture loosely referencing and evoking traditional celebrations connected to the land. In the same way that people would gather around Stonehenge or the maypole, Fleming’s sculptures have a joyful, vibrant magnetism that draws people to them. 

Fleming has worked closely with garden designer Naomi Ferrett-Cohen to craft the setting that her sculptures inhabit. The organic nature of her medium is important to Fleming, as is her frugal and waste-free method of acquiring it. Everything must be locally sourced and naturally occurring within the UK. Thus, her sculptures stand in a sea of wild flowers and soft grasses. 

The garden is supported by HSBC UK. 

Click here to book tickets to RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

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