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Boredom-busting art and activities inspired by our current major exhibition, The Sun and The Moon! 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. 

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

24 August – Weaving Workshop

In this experimental weaving workshop, participants will be using different techniques and materials including beads and natural media to create their own weaving. We will take inspiration from artists in The Sun and The Moon such as Margo Selby and Darcey Fleming.

Admission to our Family Days workshop series is free with a suggested donation of £5. Pre-register your session(s) to avoid disappointment. Should you wish to attend The Sun and The Moon alongside your Family Days slot, you can book your ticket in advance here.

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Botanical art and photography from around the world will be presented at Saatchi Gallery this summer as the annual RHS exhibition returns for a sixth year. Staged across three galleries, the best in contemporary botanical art and photography is presented by exhibitors from across the world. This year sees former medal winners returning alongside first-time exhibitors.

Showcasing an incredible diversity of botanical subjects from the vibrant wild plants that emerge after wildfires in northwest England, to the colourful mushrooms that grow in Japan – fungi seen growing on woodland walks in Cornwall, to the abundant wildflowers of protected nature reserves of Jeju Island off the coast of Korea and the endangered endemic limestone fynbos found only in South Africa’s Grootbos, to the knotty roots of well-loved garden-grown varieties at home – there is an abundance of illustration and photography to intrigue and delight.

This year’s photography exhibition presents a series of portfolio works exploring plants, gardens and natural landscapes, with photographers using close observation and technical skill to reveal the character, detail and diversity of the plant world. Subjects range from intimate studies of succulents and sunflowers to wider views of gardens and natural habitats from across the UK and beyond.

All of the artworks submitted have 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, namely 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.

Free entry for RHS and Saatchi Gallery members, on production of a valid membership card (pre-booking not required). Ticket holders for The Sun and The Moon also get free entry (valid on the same day only). 

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Join us for a weekend of performances, guided workshops, seasonal refreshments and creative activations, all celebrating the summer solstice alongside access to our major exhibition The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial. 

Your ticket includes:

• Performances, workshops and creative activations
• Themed drinks and refreshments on offer. Explore the world of G Spot – Gillian Anderson’s sparkling functional soda brand – through a botanical tasting experience designed to delight the senses. 
• Entry to The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial

What’s on Offer: 

Friday 19 June (6.30pm – 9pm)

• Solstice Straw Workshop: led by the Saatchi Gallery Learning team and artist Lucy Hook-Child, drawing inspiration from the traditional folkloric craft of sun wheel patterning. Lucy has a BA (Hons) in 3D Design Crafts and is a member of Straw Craftsmen. She has been researching and working with straw since 2023 after discovering that Corn Dolly Making and Straw Work are on the Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts. 
• Performance by artist Bryony Ella: Stand of the Sun – a solstice ritual for the melting metropolis – is a unique storytelling experience emerging out of My Body is a Sundial, the artist’s sculptural work on display as part of The Sun and The Moon. Written and directed by Bryony Ella, the event features a live performance by Alleyne Dance, lighting by Rachel Sampley and a musical score composed by Bumi Thomas. 

Saturday 20 June

• 8.30am – 9.30am: Morning yoga – gentle invigoration with sun salutations and an energising flow. Arranged in collaboration with Varley, who are generously providing participants with yoga mats for grip, cushioning, and comfort throughout the session plus a gift bag to take home!
• 9.30am – 11am: Coffee break to refuel and recharge with Redemption Roasters
• From 11.30am: Enjoy an energetic Morris dancing performance by the Belles of London City, an antiracist, LGBTQIA+ inclusive group, who champion an expansive and inclusive view of English culture for all. Traditional folk rhythms, high jumping, audience participation and general horseplay mix to deliver a toe-tappingly infectious dance spectacle. 
• 6.15pm – 7pm: Sound bath with Aesop – Alis Rocca of Arise Wellbeing will host a sound bath session with higher-frequency crystal tones to celebrate peak light. The experience will feature aromatic Aesop formulations to enhance luminosity, replenish the skin and uplift the senses

Sunday 21 June

• 8.30am – 9.30am: Morning yoga, gentle invigoration with sun salutations and an energising flow. Arranged in collaboration with Varley, who are generously providing participants with yoga mats for grip, cushioning, and comfort throughout the session plus a gift bag to take home
• 9.30am – 11am: Coffee break to refuel and recharge with Redemption Roasters
• 2.30pm (Sun Rising gallery – Room 2): Solstice ritual – A special performance to celebrate the summer solstice. You are invited to bring a stone or token offering to co-create a spontaneous altar. The ceremony is led by the poet-playwright-ritualist John Constable (aka Crow) who evolved his magical practice at London’s Crossbones Graveyard, and has conducted rituals at festivals and sacred sites worldwide. Suitable for all; children must be accompanied. 
• 6.15pm – 7pm: Sound bath with Aesop – Alis Rocca of Arise Wellbeing will host a sound bath session with grounding, earth-toned Gongs and Himalayan bowls to honour the solstice. The experience will feature aromatic Aesop formulations to enhance luminosity, replenish the skin and uplift the senses.

Activities and offerings are subject to change. More updates coming soon. Book your ticket now to avoid disappointment! 

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Curated by BSMT Gallery, States of Transition, a new body of work by Perspicere, continues his meticulous exploration of the human condition through thread. Each piece is built by wrapping thread around nails, layer upon layer, colour upon colour, until a photo-realistic portrait emerges from thousands of intersecting lines.

Perspicere, Latin for “to see clearly” or “to see through”, subjects that very idea to scrutiny. Veil-like forms and shifting surfaces complicate the act of seeing, while the work itself changes depending on distance, reflecting the way perception is fluid and unreliable.

This new series turns toward the uncertain space between one state of being and another, between presence and absence, visibility and concealment. Meaning is not immediately given but gradually uncovered, inviting an active process of looking, questioning, and reconstructing what is seen. 

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Spectral Interference is a solo exhibition by London-based painter Anna Liber Lewis, presented with Hannah Payne Art. Bringing together a new body of work, it marks a rupture from her earlier grid-based paintings, embracing abstraction as a site of risk, embodiment, and perceptual instability.

Across paintings of varying scale, Liber Lewis leaves behind the grid and earlier line work. Structure remains, not as a fixed system, but as a generative structure that can be disrupted, softened, or pushed to breaking point. The surfaces evolve through cycles of editing and return: worked into, scraped back, reactivated, and at times deliberately destabilised. Old works are revisited and altered, reflecting a willingness to give up control in pursuit of something more alive.

Central to this body of work is an interest in high-stakes painting and the tension between abstraction and figuration, structure and the body, control and risk. Influenced by artists including Helen Frankenthaler and Carroll Dunham, Liber Lewis approaches abstraction as a physical, confronting act, where the mark carries memory, effort, and jeopardy. Gesture operates as a record of decision-making, endurance, and doubt.

The exhibition brings together significant new and recent works, including Embodied Other, My GRB Afterglow, and Very Rare Picture of Earth II, alongside large-scale canvases shown publicly for the first time. It represents her most ambitious institutional presentation to date, following her inclusion in Unreal City: Abstract Painting at Saatchi Gallery in 2024. 

Images courtesy of the Artist and Hannah Payne Art. Photography by Benjamin Deakin. 

About Hannah Payne Art
Hannah Payne Art is a nomadic gallery platform working between Oxford and London, supporting emerging and mid-career artists through ambitious exhibitions, institutional collaborations and dialogue-led programming. The gallery champions artists at pivotal moments in their careers, fostering the development and presentation of new work through thoughtfully curated exhibitions and partnerships.

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A tender show with no malice, no demands, anger nor political agenda. Just little birds with little words spoken softly. Why blue? The truth is, I don’t know. I didn’t consciously think about it… Perhaps I was “feeling blue” and that made me see blue… perhaps because blue is such an everyday colour that we see, and yet one so deep at times, we could get lost in it. 

Perhaps I just love the colour…

And why the kiss…? Because something magical lives in that immediate connection, sometimes so magical that it can live in our hearts and minds for a long, long time.

I wanted to catch that moment.

To hold that kiss, that first touch, to immortalise it to more than memory. The hope, the future, the past, and the present, created like all my sculptures, made to be touched. To be felt under the hand. 

From big hands to little sticky fingers; I don’t mind. 

I made these sculptures with human intention. 

I make them for human touch. 

I make them for everyone. 

Kiss the Birds is an exhibition presented by STASH. 

Please note that this exhibition will close at midday on Sunday 7 June. 

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For our sixth collaboration with the internationally acclaimed RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the 2026 garden brings together contemporary art, thoughtful planting, and public participation with kinetic artist Lucy Gregory, garden designer Naomi Ferrett-Cohen, and supporter ING. The garden celebrates the simple pleasure of gathering together outdoors such as in a park or meadow, and the positive effect nature can have on us.

Guests are invited to venture down the garden path into a surreal environment of interactive, anthropomorphic tree-like structures that hug the space. As visitors push the sculptures into motion, they trigger a joyful, spiralling dance that gradually settles into a playful, slapstick wobble as momentum slows. 

Inspired by mechanical toys, Victorian automatons and early animation devices, she constructs large-scale figurative ‘kinetic collages’, where abstracted ‘cutouts’ or black and white imagery are mounted on engineered steel frames. Gregory’s practice upends the traditional ‘look, don’t touch’ mentality, instead encouraging play and curiosity through interaction with the artworks. The viewer becomes the engine, activator and performer, intertwined with the work itself, as they bring the sculptures to life through participation and touch.

The project is supported by ING, whose commitment to advancing sustainable practice and supporting cultural initiatives reflects a shared belief in the value of nature, creativity and collective responsibility. 

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The Gallery is currently closed for installation and will reopen on 21 May 2026. We thank you for your understanding and apologise for any inconvenience.