Borough Road Gallery
What Visitors Say
One of my favourite galleries in London! Local community & artwork space & family artwork event…a lot of creative things going on here! I'm very proud of myself, i am one of the artists part of Southward Galleries celebrating 41st and largest Annual Open yet, as London's longest-running democratic exhibition, established in 1984, the exhibition including works in drawing, painting, photography, print, sculpture and film to champion the diversity of artistic practice in the UK today. Don't missing this wonderful southward galleries when you visit London!
It was a really cool gallery with some great artworks. It’s located inside a beautiful park, so you can take a lovely walk there either before or after visiting the gallery.
Lovely gallery with attentive staff and a small but really well curated gift shop and a patio garden. Been there for the annual exhibition of selected artists, an impressive display of art works from floor to (almost) ceiling, with some fine pieces, all of them for sale. A smaller room displayed video art.
I sold one of my paintings in the open annual exhibition. So lovely stuff and beautiful place
Thoroughly enjoyed my visit to this wonderful gallery in a great location. I went to the 'A Fine Day for Seeing' exhibition, which I highly recommend.
Highlights
David Bomberg: Teaching at Borough Polytechnic (1945–1953)
Sets the scene for Bomberg’s radical pedagogy after WWII and his shift from Vorticism to expressive structure.Syllabus notes, life-room drawings and late landscapes reveal how his ‘search for the spirit in the mass’ shaped a generation.
Introductory gallery
The Borough Group & Sarah Rose Collection
Paintings by founders Cliff Holden, Dorothy Mead, Edna Mann and Miles Richmond show how Bomberg’s ideas splintered into distinct voices.From constructional still lifes to charged figure studies, the Group’s 1946 formation reads like a manifesto in paint.
Main gallery
From Borough to London’s Post-war Scene
Links the Borough circle to wider post-war British art—students who later fed London’s figurative revival.Timelines and catalogues connect the polytechnic life-room to later exhibitions and prizes across the 1950s–60s.
Context wall / timeline
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
David Bomberg taught evening classes at Borough Polytechnic from 1945 to 1953; his students formed the Borough Group in 1946 to exhibit under shared principles he encouraged.
Founding members represented in the Sarah Rose Collection include Cliff Holden, Dorothy Mead, Edna Mann and Miles Richmond—each developing divergent approaches from Bomberg’s emphasis on structure and mass.
The gallery’s focus is a teaching lineage: works on paper and studio studies are shown alongside finished canvases to demonstrate how Borough methods translated from life room to exhibition wall.
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