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  Tannery Arts is a small, independent charity concerned with supporting the professional development of emerging and established artists through the provision of affordable studios, promoting their practice through opportunities to exhibit work, develop projects, generate partnerships with local authorities, private property owners and social housing organisations as well as engage in learning activities.

Book Marks Bookclub: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

Lucie MacGregor workshop

Drawing Connections: Creative Labs for 16 to 25 year olds

Lucie MacGregor workshop

Drawing Connections: Creative Labs for 16 to 25 year olds

Image of a RISO zine, created by Steve Russell, 2026

Make Your Own RISO Book Cover Workshop

Part of the Bermondsey Literary Festival 2026

Youth Creative Writing Workshop with Dr. Sandra A. Agard

Book Marks Bookclub

Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle

Book Marks Bookclub

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Drawing Research Forum 2025/26 Sessions – Part 2

Book Marks Bookclub

Drawing Research Forum 2025/26 Sessions – Part 1

Re-discovery summer 2025 visit to Cambridge Botanic Gardens

Re-discovery: Autumn 2025 programme

A monthly creative group for those living with young onset dementia and their carers

Unfinished Day

Re-discovery: Summer 2025 programme

A monthly creative group for those living with young onset dementia and their carers

Paper Worlds

Drawing Research Forum 2024/25 Sessions – Part 2

Weave, first session

Re-discovery: Autumn 2024 programme

A monthly creative group for those living with young onset dementia and their carers

Can you draw a river exhibition image scaled. Photograph: Mirko Boffelli

Can You Draw a River?

Celebration event

Learning with children: Power Feeling Freedom Dreams

6.30-8pm

Zine Workshop with Rachael House

Drawing Research Forum 2023/24 Sessions – Part 2

Feminist Self-Publishing

Nick Goss: silkscreens and sounds & book launch for ‘Smickel Inn’

When We Read

Talking Lines drawing created by a research participant, 2023. Image credit: Courtesy of UCL Dementia Research Centre & Rare Dementia Support

Talking Lines

Stories of diagnosis and support as told by those with lived experience of rarer forms of dementia