Morley Gallery
⭐ Highligts
Curated Contemporary Exhibitions
Brings mid-career and emerging artists into dialogue with Morley’s specialist teaching disciplines.Installations often combine materials and sound; look for process notes and small catalogues that extend the work beyond the walls.
📍 Ground-floor main space
Printmaking & Ceramics Showcases
London’s longest-running adult-education departments regularly surface ambitious prints and studio ceramics.Compare techniques side by side—etching plates next to final pulls; thrown forms beside glaze tests reveal how decisions evolve.
📍 Main space and project walls
Photography & Lens-Based Projects
Exhibitions frequently foreground documentary and experimental practices tied to Morley’s darkroom and digital labs.Watch for contact sheets, work prints and short moving-image loops that show the edit as part of the artwork.
📍 Basement gallery
Talks, Workshops, Publishing
Artist talks and slim, idea-dense booklets capture methods and community collaboration central to the gallery’s ethos.Pick up a free handout or reader—many include exercises so visitors can try the techniques at home.
📍 Event area / reading table
Opening Hours
🤓 Fun Facts
The gallery is embedded in Morley College London, an adult-education college with roots in the 1880s linked to the Old Vic—exhibitions often grow from teaching studios that have run continuously for over a century.
Morley’s gallery has long functioned as a ‘teaching gallery’: student, alumni and invited-artist shows are curated to foreground process—test plates, glaze tiles, maquettes and proofs frequently appear as exhibits in their own right.
Public art commissions occasionally spill into the streets around Westminster Bridge Road—site-responsive works have used façades, windows and nearby pocket gardens as part of the display route.
