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Welcome to the December issue of my newsletter. Last month was another busy one, but December will be much quieter as we prepare for the holiday season. My highlights were taking some photos of Robert De Niro, the Lady Mayor show and Greenwich Luxmuralis.
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Winterlights on the Southbank – 1st till 18th January 2026
Over the dark winter nights, the Southbank site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Started on the 30th of November.
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Hyakko at Kapan House – 3rd till 26th May 2026
Explore the beauty of everyday things in Hyakkō, a collection of almost 2,000 exquisitely hand-crafted items. Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkō is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.
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Hampton Court Palace Festive Fayre – 5th to 7th & 12th to 14th
Experience a ‘truly magical day’ at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Festive Fayre. This much-loved Christmas shopping event is back for two unforgettable weekends, hosted entirely in the stunning Great Fountain Garden of Henry VIII’s famous palace.
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YOKIMONO JAPANESE CHRISTMAS MARKET – 6th & 7th
Market is a Japan-themed market and cultural event in East London. Traders will be offering: delicious Japanese food & sweets, vintage kimono, ceramics, illustrations, stationery, clothing, jewellery and much more – all made in Japan or produced by Japanese artists in London.
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Garden of Blue Whispers at Unit London – 3rd till 31st January 2026
Garden of Blue Whispers marks a period of flourishing for Ugandan artist Stacey Gillian Abe, a new chapter in a journey that began with Shrublet of Old Ayivu, the artist’s first solo exhibition with Unit.
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Trafalgar Square Tree lights switch on – 4th
Watch the Lord Mayor of Westminster and the Mayor of Oslo switch on the Trafalgar Tree lights. It starts at 5 pm and finishes at 6.30 pm. This year marks the 78th anniversary of the annual gift of a Christmas tree to the people of London from the City of Oslo, given as a token of gratitude for British Support to Norway during the Second World War.
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Christmas Model Shoot – 5th
It’s Christmas time, and the lights over London are sparkling. Why not join us for a photography shoot with model Valentina, using the backdrop of Christmas lights in central London?
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TOAST Festive Market at Shoreditch – 5th till 7th
Bringing together independent makers in a celebration of creativity and craftsmanship during the festive season. The market will be held at the former railway station ticket hall in Shoreditch, east London, a historic venue with exposed Victorian brickwork and arched ceilings.
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Santacon in London – 6th
Santacon is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious and non-sensical Christmas parade that traditionally takes place in London one Saturday every December. Location in London soon.
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Regent Street’s Festive Mile – 6th
Regent Street will be closed to traffic and transformed into a fully pedestrianised winter wonderland. From 2pm to 9pm, along Regent Street’s Festive Mile, visitors can expect extra-special shopping, roving entertainment and plenty of merry refreshments – it’s the perfect way to kick off your Christmas celebrations.
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Photographic Walk in Cassiobury Park Nature Reserve – 10th
Take a guided walk through Cassiobury Park Nature Reserve led by Andrew Lalchan (local photographer), exploring winter in the nature reserve. This walk offers opportunities to take nature photos, and Andrew will be on hand to provide any photography tips.
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Santa’s roller-skate at Hyde Park – 13th
Roll up for the biggest street skate of the year as the legendary Santa Skate returns for its huge 20th anniversary.
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Christmas Sausage Walk at Kensington Gardens (Hyde Park) – 14th
Get ready for a magical dachshund takeover of Hyde Park (Kensington Gardens) on Sunday 14th of December from 12:00 to 14:00.
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Ceramic Christmas Market – 14th
If you’re after something different for someone special, the Christmas Independent Ceramics Market provides a unique opportunity to buy a diverse range of affordable ceramic artwork, and buy direct from the maker.
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Colour Walk Meetup at Spitalfields Market – 18th
It is an informal gathering of colourful, creative souls who meet, dressed in their finest, to walk, talk, and strut their stuff. It is excellent for photography.
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Christmas at Kew 2025 – till 4th January 2026
Christmas at Kew 2025 invites you into a botanical world of light, music and magic. This year’s trail showcases brand-new creations from world-renowned artists, lighting up Kew’s landscapes in dazzling colour.
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Hyde Park Winter Wonderland – till 1st January 2026
From thrilling rides and immersive icy attractions to carnival games and enchanting shows, accompanied by a cornucopia of festive food and drink to feast on, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
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Future Of Food at Design Museum – till 4th January
How does our food today go from field to plate? How did food use to be produced in the past? And how will major advances in ecology and biotechnology change food in the future? Discover the answers to these and many more vital questions in an exciting new exhibition exploring how science is creating more sustainable ways of growing, making, cooking and eating food.
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Snoopy Sculpture Trail at Fleet Street Quarter – 16th January 2026
the world-famous character will take over the streets of the Quarter in the form of a sculpture art trail, placed in surprise locations for visitors to discover. Celebrating 75 years of Charles M Schulz’s beloved Peanuts™ comic strip, twelve sculptures, featuring Snoopy perched on his iconic red doghouse, have been transformed by artists into beautiful and playful works of art.
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Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life at The Courtauld Gallery – till 18th January 2026
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery will be the first ever museum show of his work in the UK. It will present Thiebaud’s remarkable, vibrant and lushly painted still-lifes of quintessentially post-war American subjects, from diner food and deli counters to gumball dispensers and pinball machines. These are the paintings with which Thiebaud made his name in the USA in the early 1960s.
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Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern – till 11th January 2026
Renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c.1914–1996) created compelling, powerful works that reflect her extraordinary life as an Anmatyerr woman born in Alhalker in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Gilbert & George at Hayward Gallery – till 11th January 2026
This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium. With bold, single-word titles, each piece delves into societal norms and taboos, spanning the mundane and the illicit, with their art challenging boundaries of taste and propriety.
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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at Royal Academy – till 18th January 2026
Internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the most important painters working right now. His vivid and mostly large-scale paintings place the Black figure front and centre. Marshall builds upon the Western tradition of history painting and makes visible those people who were so noticeably absent in the works that came before him.
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Performance of Entrapment by Jane and Louise Wilson at London Mithraeum – till 17th January 2026
Central to the installation will be 2,000-year-old oak stakes discovered during excavations for Bloomberg’s European headquarters. The Wilsons use high-resolution microscopic imagery of the oak’s grain as a starting point for a new body of work. Blending screen-printing, resin, and carved wooden forms, and drawing inspiration from the wood’s structure, patterns and DNA sequencing to create large-scale, visually layered artworks.
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Radical Harmony Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery – till 8th February 2026
Neo-Impressionists painted in small dots of pure colour. Viewed from a distance, the colours blend to create nuanced tones and an illusion of light. Now known as pointillism, this technique simplified form and played with colour in an entirely new way, verging on the edge of abstraction.
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Peter Doig : House of Music at Serpentine South – till 8th February 2026
Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work. The exhibition features two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums. Music selected by the artist – from his substantial archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades – plays through a set of ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers.
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Lee Miller Exhibition at Tate Britain – till 15th February 2026
A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller at Tate Britain. An extensive retrospective of her photography, staged in the UK at Tate Britain, celebrates Lee Miller as one of the 20th century’s most urgent artistic voices. The exhibition opens on October 2nd and runs until February 15th, 2026.
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The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery at 40 at Saatchi Gallery – 5th till 1st March 2026
This exhibition celebrates the gallery’s 40th anniversary by compiling a “greatest hits” selection of influential artworks previously showcased, featuring pieces by artists such as Richard Wilson, Conrad Shawcross, and Jenny Saville.
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Marie Antoinette Style at V&A – till 22nd March 2026
A complex fashion icon, Marie Antoinette’s timeless appeal is defined by her style, youth and notoriety. Explore the lasting influence of the most fashionable (and ill-fated) queen in history – with over 250 years of design, fashion, film and art.
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Turner and Constable at Tate Britain – 12th April 2026
The definitive exhibition of two pivotal British artists in the 250th year of their births. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other – Turner in 1775, Constable in 1776 – they used landscape art as a way to reflect the changing world around them.
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Theatre Picasso at Tate Modern – till 12th April 2026
Marking the centenary of his famous painting The Three Dancers, this exhibition, staged by celebrated contemporary artist Wu Tsang and author and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca, sheds new light on Picasso’s work. They will transform the exhibition space into a theatre for displaying over 45 works by Picasso from Tate’s collection, alongside key European loans. This includes paintings, sculpture, textiles and works on paper, some never seen in the UK before.
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Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern – till 10th May 2026
Nigerian Modernism tells the story of artistic networks that spanned Zaria, Ibadan, Lagos, and Enugu, as well as London, Munich, and Paris. Through groups like the Zaria Art Society and Mbari Artists’ and Writers’ Club, they fused Nigerian, African and European techniques and traditions to create vibrant, multidimensional works.
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Wright of Derby: From the Shadows at The National Gallery – till 10th May 2026
An exhibition celebrating Joseph Wright of Derby, a master of capturing light and shadow in paintings, often with multiple figures watching a scene unfold in candlelight, who captured the spirit of the Industrial Revolution.
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Sculpture in the City – till spring 2026
Sculpture in the City is an annual sculpture park that uses the urban realm as a rotating gallery space. The 14th Edition of Sculpture in the City will be on display from 16 July 2025 to Spring 2026, and includes 11 artworks from renowned and emerging artists alike: Ai Weiwei, Jane and Louise Wilson, Andrew Sabin, Julian Opie, Maya Rose Edwards, Samuel Ross, Richard Mackness, Elisa Artesero, Daniel Silver, and Oliver Bragg.
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Women In Print at the William Morris Gallery – till 21st June 2026
William Morris Gallery will present Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles. Conceived in partnership with Liberty Fabrics on the occasion of the design house’s 150th anniversary, this major exhibition will highlight the pivotal role and contributions of women textile designers.
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