"PICTURING QUAKERS"
4th to 12th October 2025
More than two dozen Quakers from across London have contributed a wide variety of artworks illustrating aspects of their Quaker experience, through paintings, prints and textile artworks to video work, ceramics and 3-D installations. Themes range from experiences of the silent communion of Quaker worship to witnessing concerns about peace, the environment and social justice.
Participating artists include: Alison Wallace, Amanda Wunderlich, Ann Ulrick, Anne McNeill Pulati, Annette Gambin, Art the Arms Fair, Bernadette O’Shea, Catherine Wheare, Debbie Flatt, Emma Charleston, Geoff Smith, Jacqueline Merry Bernard, James Pendle, Kate Bone, Linda Murgatroyd, Loving Earth Project, Margot Schiemann, Max Harlie, Michael Mears, Nikolai Smith, Peter Horsfield, Sonja Cooper, Susan Walker, Tony Gant, Val Coumont, Wandsworth Quaker Children, Yvonne P Stewart-Williams.
Special events will include
- a half-hour Quaker Meeting for worship amid the exhibits, on Sunday 5th October at 6pm, International Quaker Day;
- an opportunity to Meet the Artists on Friday 10th October (6 to 8-m); and
- a poetry recital from James Pendle ("the Poet of Paddington Station”) on the afternoon of Saturday 11th October.
As well as the weekend openings, 11 am to 6pm on both Saturdays and 2pm to 6pm on Sundays, the exhibition will be open on Wednesday 8th October from noon till 6pm.
All welcome. Free.
Part of Wandsworth Artists Open House, celebrating Wandsworth as London Borough of Culture 2025.
