All you need to know about the 86th Open exhibition.
📍Copeland Gallery, Copeland Park, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
🗓 November 8 – 23
🕤 Open daily 11am – 5pm
Late opening on Thursday/Friday, until 7pm
Private View: Friday 7 November, 6-8pm
The London Group Open represents a unique opportunity for non-members to exhibit among current members of the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious artists’ collective. Embodying the group’s dedication to the contemporary art scene, this open call invites entries from UK based visual artists aged 18 and over, working in any medium. This year, there are numerous awards open to the 79 non-member exhibiting artists.
The following London Group members will be exhibiting:
Moich Abrahams, Ade Adesina, Wendy Anderson, Jemma Appleby, Jonathan Armour, Victoria Arney, Victoria Bartlett, Bryan Benge, Barbara Beyer, Slawomir Blatton, Paul Bonomini, Mary Branson, Lesley Bunch, Clive Burton, Paul & Laura Carey, Stephen Carley, Jacqueline Yuen-Ling Chiu, Peter Clossick, Gary Clough, Tim Craven, Sandra Crisp, John Crossley, Martin Darbyshire, Stathis Dimitriadis, Beverley Duckworth, Angela Eames, James Faure Walker, Eric Fong, Cadi Froehlich, Marenka Gabeler, Tricia Gillman, Emilia Gonzalez Salgado, Vaughan Grylls, Susan Haire, Alexandra Harley, Julie Held, Aude Hérail Jäger, Alexander Hinks, Chris Horner, Gillian Ingham, Matthew Kolakowski, Anne Leigniel, Jockel Liess, Amanda Loomes, Hannah Luxton, Genetic Moo, Charlotte C Mortensson, Kathleen Mullaniff, Darren Nisbett, Eugene Palmer, Ian Parker, Sumi Perera, Steve Pettengell, Michael Phillipson, Alexander Ramsay, Victoria Rance, David Redfern, Tom Scase, Tommy Seaward, Sayako Sugawara, Suzan Swale, David Tebbs, Paul Tecklenberg, Lisa Traxler, Philippa Tunstill, Joshua Uvieghara, Neil Weerdmeester, Tisna Westerhof, Susan Wilson, Erika Winstone, David Wiseman, Carol Wyss.
The London Group is proud to present the following non-member exhibitors:
Melissa Alley, Hilal Argun, Caroline Ashley, Rosy Barnes, Valerie Bennett, James Bloom, John Blythe, Hilary Boardley, Jonathan Bower,Day Bowman, Susan Breen, James Briggs, Annabel Cator, Suzanne Cole, Emma Coop, Nathaniel Cooper, Amanda Cornish, James Cowan, Mandeep Dillon, David Edmond, Tom Fairlamb, Jan Frith, Sarah Granville, Simon Head, R James Healy, Deborah Hercun, Roland Hicks, Joe Hodway, Geoffrey Howe, Caroline Ingham, Lukas Kroulik, Anna Larin, Simon Lawson, Sandy Layton, Noah Leigh, Johann Lester, Wei Lin, Thomas Lisle, Naty Lopez-Holguin, Magid Magid, Blandine Martin, Suzanne Moxhay, Nathan Murphy, Stephanie Nebbia, Esther Neslen, Jennifer Ng, Laurence Noga, Louise Ockenden, Katarina Orolinova, Jessica Ozlo, Andreas Papanastasiu, Brigitte Parusel, Georgia Peskett, Ann Petruckevitch, Peter Newell Price, Ray Rankine, Loraine Rutt, Hana Al Sayed, Aindreas Scholz, Jaeho Shin, Richard Slee, Angela Smith, Philip Smith, Euan G Stewart, Sato Sugamoto, Lea Tabaja, Kim Thornton, Inga Tillere, Ania Tomaszewska-Nelson, Annie Trevorah, Henry Ward, Annie Wasdell, Jacob Weeks, Jenny Wiggins, Michael Woodruff, Ash Xu, Isabel Young, Farniyaz Zaker.
Performances and talks throughout the Open
Click here to get free tickets for the performances.
This year, prizes include:
The London Group Prize: £500
The Vic Kuell Memorial Prize for Innovation: £1,000
The Schauerman Prize for Digital Art: £500
The Chelsea Arts Club Trust Stan Smith Award for an Artist Under 35: £1,000
The JPES Partnership Prize: £1,000
The Armour Studio Award: £500
Linden Hall Studio Prize: Opportunity to show three artworks alongside the Linden Hall Collection
The London Group Critical Writing Prize
A new prize of £500 for a contemporary review of The London Group Open 2025.
This is a new award, to be judged by the art writers Jean Wainwright, Sue Hubbard and John Bunker. In its first year, the brief is being put out to the RCA only, who are very enthusiastic about the project. The aim of the prize is to encourage budding new critics and to attract them to visit and review future London Group shows.
Learn more here.
