Past Gallery Cafe Exhibitions
Here you can see all of the Gallery Cafe Exhibitions since the summer of 2025, to give you an idea of the breadth of work that we exhibit and celebrate all the brilliant work that has adorned our walls.
Behind Every Door
8 April to 11 May 2026
St Margaret's House is a work-home for more than 30 community organisations and wellbeing practices. In this exhibition, we take you behind the many doors to find the artists and participants creating here.
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THAT Network Practitioners Reconnected
3 March to 7 April 2026
THAT Network London is a vibrant collective of artist-teachers from schools across Tower Hamlets, united by a shared commitment to creativity, collaboration and making.
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Fruit Machine: Andrew Lumsden Art & Activism
18 November 2025 to 2 March 2026
Andrew Lumsden (1941-2023) was a pioneering gay journalist, activist and artist. This exhibition celebrates his still lifes, interiors, landscapes and portraits from over half a century of drawings.
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Human Metamorphosis
10 September 2025 to 6 October 2026
An exhibition of paintings by local artist, Aristedes Georgiou; his first solo show, inspired by the natural world – its beauty and inspiration through resilience, constant growth and search for the light.
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Home Is?
7 October to 17 November 2025
Home is both anchor and question. This exhibition shares personal stories of migration, intimacy, and landscape and fantasy, asking what home means when it is always moving, remembered, and remade.
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Light and Dark
22 July to 9 September 2025
Our Summer Open Exhibition exploring the contrasts between illumination and shadow, not just in a physical sense but also in emotion, symbolism and storytelling.
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