Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Thursday, 6th October 2022?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
For the exhibition, the gallery will be transformed into an overgrown, supernaturally lit terrain inspired by the scene depicted in the painting the exhibition takes its name from. (Ending Soon Thu, 7th Oct)
D'Stassi Art
The work in this exhibition is painted mostly on objects that the artist has
salvaged from the streets and buildings of London. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Oct)
Atom Gallery
Bentleys, the vintage luggage specialist, hosts a week-long residency with arguably Britain’s finest traditional leather craftspeople: Tetbury’s Neil MacGregor and Valerie Michael. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Oct)
Bentleys London
An exhibition that celebrates the breadth, diversity and qualities of craft, and includes numerous craft objects made in the UK over the course of the last 50 years. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Oct)
Crafts Council Gallery
Visitors can see the entire process of creating handwoven textiles, from setting up the warp, weaving both tapestries and rugs, and finally taking the finished piece off the loom. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Oct)
Christabel Balfour
Five leading contemporary craft galleries on display in the historic, 19th-century official residence of the Argentine ambassador. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Oct)
Argentine Embassy
20 designers have been invited to think about their experiences of a pandemic world. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Oct)
The Design Museum
Free
Falling Birds
A series of X-ray photographs and poetic texts highlighting extinction and the alarming decline in bird species around the world. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Oct)
Horniman Museum
Embroiderers to the British Royal Family, Savile Row and top European designers, Hand & Lock opens its doors for one week to offer an insight into Britain’s oldest embroidery house. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Oct)
Hand & Lock
An exhibition examining the industry’s innovative nature, presenting the unique depth of rush weaving’s aesthetics and its historical value to Taiwan. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Oct)
An exhibition of 25 photos taken during the filming of the latest James Bond movie. (Ending Soon Fri, 15th Oct)
Leica Gallery
Free
Treasures of the RSM
This exhibition offers a fascinating insight into the history of medicine and the growth of the medical and scientific professions. (Ending Soon Fri, 15th Oct)
The Royal Society of Medicine
This exhibition shows photographs from fine-art photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas' new book Wildflowers For The Queen (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Oct)
The Garden Museum
Bringing together over 200 objects from collections across Europe and America, this exhibition shows how Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) blazed a new path for the development of abstraction. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Oct)
Tate Modern
Starting over 50 years ago, this great photographer has been documenting life in the west London communities of Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Oct)
Royal Festival Hall
Free
Round and Around
Round and Around is an audio-visual project planned and produced to observe modern Korean history on multiple levels. (Ending Soon Fri, 22nd Oct)
Korean Cultural Centre UK
Free
The Natural World
This exhibition is dedicated to approximately 40 rare and fascinating objects paying tribute to the wonders of the natural world. (Ending Soon Fri, 22nd Oct)
Cromwell Place
An exhibition examining the cultural, social and political effects of software on contemporary society, by US artist Ben Grosser. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd Oct)
arebyte Gallery
£7.70
Julian Opie
Pitzhanger presents a new body of work by renowned British artist Julian Opie, including site specific pieces, focusing on architecture, people and nature. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Oct)
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
This exhibition explores the true story of Rome's fifth emperor informed by new research and archaeological evidence from the time, challenging the biased historical accounts written after Nero’s death that have shaped his legacy. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Oct)
The British Museum
