NOW Gallery

NOW Gallery is a 130-square metre public creative exhibition space located on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, founded in 2014.

For the defunct gallery in New York, see Now Gallery.

NOW Gallery

Established	2014
Location	Greenwich Peninsula
Visitors	20,000 (2017)
Director	Jemima Burrill Kaia Charles
Website	nowgallery.co.uk

History

Developed by Knight Dragon,^[1] the space is housed within the Greenwich Gateway Pavilions, a 7-metre-tall curved building designed by Marks Barfield architects as part of the area's urban regeneration project. NOW Gallery opened on 17 September 2014, with its programme entailing a "revolving door" of three-month commissions from both established and up-and-coming artists, designers and other creatives.^[2][3] NOW Gallery is run by a team consisting of founding curators Jemima Burrill and Kaia Charles.^[4]

As of 2017, NOW Gallery had an annual visitorship of 20 thousand.^[5]

Charles curates an annual Human Stories photography series. NOW Gallery hosted the 2020 Secret 7" exhibition, in which musicians submit songs while visual artists submit cover art for the songs. Secret 7" returned in 2024 to support the charity War Child.^[6]

In 2024, marking the 10-year anniversary of NOW Gallery, the gallery saw a rotation of five exhibitions.^[7]

Exhibitions

2010s

Year	Title	Featuring	Ref.
2014–2015	Shade	Simon Heijdens	[8]
2015	Aperture	Robert Orchardson	[9]
	Emblema	Ricardo Cavolo	[10]
	Floating / Falling / Drowning / Flying – An Introspective of Process	Phoebe English	[11]
	Home Affairs	Creative director: Yinka Ilori	[12]
	Straight Jacket Star Jumps	Alex Chinneck	[13]
2016	Where Pioneers Live	MadeThought
	In the Heart of a Whale	Margaux Carpentier	[14]
	The People's Brick Company	Something & Son	[15]
	Intimate Spaces	Various, including Cian Oba-Smith	[16]
2016–2017	What I Like	Molly Goddard	[17]
2017	The Iris	Rebecca Louise Law	[18]
	The Island	Icinori
	WALALA X PLAY	Camille Walala	[19]
	Human Stories: The Body Issue	Various	[20]
2017–2018	The Come Up	Charles Jeffrey	[21]
2018	Harmonics in Space	Fred Butler	[22]
	I Don't Have Time for This	Hattie Stewart	[23]
	Indirect Sunlight	Laura Aldridge and James Rigler	[24]
	Human Stories: Another England		[25]
2018–2019	Rinse, Repeat	Richard Malone	[26]
2019	The Mouse and his Child	Studio Morison	[27]
	The Great Supper	Sara Shakeel	[28]
	My Opera House	Kinska	[29]
	Human Stories: Circa No Future	Nadia Huggins	[30]
2019–2020	Silent Madness	Mowalola	[31]

2020s

Year	Title	Featuring	Ref.
2020	Slices of Time	Emmanuelle Moureaux	[32]
	Secret 7"	Various
2020–2021	Meanings and Attachments	Mah Rana
	Return to Slygo	Nicholas Daley	[33]
2021	My Head is a Jungle	Manjit Thapp	[34]
	Art Block	Collaboration with Design District
2021–2022	Your Ship Has Landed	Lydia Chan	[35]
2022	Feeling Good	Joy Yamusangie	[36]
	Routine	Ben Cullen Williams and Gaika	[37]
	Maiden Voyage	JeeYoung Lee	[38]
	Human Stories: The Satirists	Various	[39]
2022–2023	Ribbons	Matty Bovan	[40]
2023	What You See Here / What You Hear Here	Darryl Daley	[41]
	The Shape of Things	Simone Brewster	[42]
	The Great Supper	Sara Shakeel	[43]
	Human Stories: A Young South Africa	Various	[44]
2023–2024	Greetings from Ireland	Robyn Lynch	[45]
2024	Secret 7" with War Child	Various
	Like a Melody: Myths, Memories and Fantasy	Charlotte Mei	[46][47]
	Up in Smoke	John Booth and CAN	[48]
	Human Stories: Unreported Uprisings	Inès Elsa Dalal	[49]
2024–2025	Socks: The Art of Care and Repair	Celia Pym	[50]
2025	Secret 7 with War Child	Various
	London Festival of Architecture