Having trouble deciding on the best spots for photography in London?
Then check out the fantastic events in the London and Watford area this month. These events are more geared towards photography, fashion and art.
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Last Updated: 1st January
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News Year Day Parade at West End – 1st
LNYDP attracts over 10,000 participants from the USA, UK, Europe and beyond to delight our street audience of over 500,000. The parade takes place at midday at Piccadilly with the route going to Westminster.
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Museum of the Moon at St Albans Cathedral – 3rd till 15th February
The Museum of the Moon artwork by artist Luke Jerram will visit St. Alban’s Cathedral for the first time in 2025. Marvel at its beauty or join one of the many events and activities that will take place in the moonlight.
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Glow Up: Art, Energy and Elevation exhibition at 54 the Gallery – 6th
Abstract artist Kate Mayer has created an uplifting exhibition designed to inspire, connect and renew.
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Fragments of a Landscape: Eleni Maragaki at WIP Space – 10th till 23rd
Eleni Maragaki is a visual artist born in Athens, Greece. She studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2013-2018) and MA Fine Art in Central Saint Martins, UAL (2020-2022), with distinction, as a recipient of the Mona Hatoum Bursaries Award. She won the Muse Residency Award and the Tate Christmas Card Competition.
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News contemporaries at ICA London – 15th till 25th March
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most progressive artists. 33 artists will be exhibiting.
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Winter Photographic Walk in Cassiobury Park – 15th
Take a guided walk through Cassiobury Park, starting at the Peace Garden and then to the nature reserve led by Andrew Lalchan (local photographer); we will explore winter in the park. Hopefully, there will lots of wintry weather.
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Colour Walk Meetup at Spitalfields Market – 16th
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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London Short Film Festival – 17th till 26th
The London Short Film Festival (LSFF) is the UK’s leading short film festival, now in its 22nd year. Founded as the Halloween Film Society in the early 90s, we are now a BAFTA and BIFA qualifying, internationally-regarded independent festival.
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Winter Lights Festival at Canary Wharf – 21st till 1st February
Winter Lights Festival’s ninth edition starts on the 21st; the trail will take you through 12 spectacular temporary installations, including the permanent light artworks. Showcasing some of the most innovative light artists globally, the 2025 festival explores the transformative and otherworldly qualities of art and light, featuring portals, black holes and mirages.
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London Art Fair at Business Design Centre – 22nd to 26th
Showcasing exceptional Modern and Contemporary Art, launching with just 36 UK galleries, the London Art Fair has grown steadily over the years, with well over 100 galleries now taking place.
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Soil, the world at our feet at Somerset House – 23rd till 13th April
This groundbreaking exhibition unites visionary artists and thinkers from around the world to explore the remarkable power and potential of soil. Through various artworks, artefacts and innovative approaches, visitors are invited to reconsider soil’s crucial role in our planet’s health.
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Model Shoot at Canary Wharf Winter Lights Festival – 24th
Jose and Andrew will guide you around the lights, and we will have two models for you to shoot with the light installations. There are twelve new temporary installations and lots of permanent ones.
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The Festival of Spring at Trafalgar Square – 26th approx
The Festival of Spring, also known as Lunar New Year, is a time of celebration and tradition, the main celebration for the Chinese community in London each year. This year, the festival falls on 29th January and marks the start of the Year of the Snake.
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Craft n Chill for Adults at Well Bean Co – Café – 26th
That’s the vibe at these relaxing, mindful craft sessions, where you get to explore the mood-boosting pleasures of crafting each month. Every month, the activity is different, but whatever it is, you’ll get to experience the power of creativity in a relaxed space where you can take a break from your to-do list and make way for some creative and nourishing ‘me time’.
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Destinations, The Holiday and Travel Show – 30th till 2nd February
Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show, in association with The Times and The Sunday Times, is the UK’s largest and longest-running travel event. It will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2025—three colourful decades of inspiring travellers to discover the world.
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East London Art Prize: Shortlist Exhibition 2025 at Bow Arts – 31st till 13th April 2025
Presenting work by Darcey Fleming, Eugene Macki, Fatima Ali, Gusty Ferro, Joseph Ijoyemi, Kuda Mushangi, Laisul Hoque, Liang-Jung Chen, Lydia Newman, Mo Langmuir, and Yang Zou. Shortlist themes include migration, African diasporic perspectives, microhistories, mental health, social justice, dynamics of public space, hyperlocal, and the deployment of political narratives through cultural production.
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Haegue Yang: Leap Year at Hayward Gallery – till 5th January 2025
A world of inventive, immersive and multisensory installations and sculptures that weave connections between disparate histories, cultures and traditions.
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Imaginary Institution of India at the Barbican – till 5th January 2025
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years. Featuring artwork by over 30 Indian artists, this major exhibition is bookended by two transformative events in India’s history: Indira Gandhi’s declaration of a state of emergency in 1975 and the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998.
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Francis Bacon: Human Presence at Portrait Gallery – till 19th January 2025
Featuring more than 55 works from the 1950s onwards, this exhibition will explore Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional genre definitions. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon’s life story. Accompanied by the artist’s self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.
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Monet and London. Views of the Thames at Courtauld Institute of Art – till 19th January 2025
Claude Monet (1840—1926) is world-renowned as the leading figure of French Impressionism, the movement that changed the course of modern art. Less known is the fact that some of Monet’s most remarkable Impressionist paintings were made not in France but in London. They depict extraordinary views of the Thames, which had never been seen before. It has an evocative atmosphere, mysterious light, and radiant colour.
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Mars in the Painted Hall, Greenwich – till 28th January 2025
Luke Jerram’s astonishing installation Mars is coming to the Painted Hall this winter. Following the sell-out success of Gaia and Museum of the Moon, Mars will complete the trilogy of Jerram’s out-of-this-world installations at the iconic Old Royal Naval College.
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Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call at Serpentine North Gallery – till 2nd February 2025
A collaboration between artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst and Serpentine Arts Technologies, The Call proposes new cultural, legal, and technical rituals for art in the age of AI.
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Hew Locke – what have we here? at British Museum – till 9th February 2025
Join renowned Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke as he turns his lens on the British Museum collection in a collaborative exhibition exploring histories of British imperial power.
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Shokuhin Sanpuru at Japan House – till 16th February 2025
This vibrant exhibition offers a rare opportunity outside Japan to see these skilfully created models up close. It explores the craft’s history, materials, processes, and future potential.
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Turner Prize 2024 at Tate Britain – till 16th February 2025
Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, and Delaine Le Bas are the four artists shortlisted for the 2024 Turner Prize. They will showcase their eclectic work at Tate Britain from 25 September 2024, and the winner will be announced on 3 December 2024.
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Barbie®: The Exhibition at Design Museum – till 23rd February 2025
A major exhibition exploring the design evolution of one of the world’s most famous dolls: Barbie®. Journey into the Barbie universe and discover over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.
Silk Roads Exhibition at British Museum – till 23rd February 2025
Camel caravans crossing desert dunes, merchants trading silks and spices at bazaars – these images come to mind when we think of the Silk Roads. But the reality goes far beyond this. Rather than a single trade route from East to West, the Silk Roads comprised overlapping networks linking communities across Asia, Africa and Europe, East Asia to Britain and Scandinavia to Madagascar.
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Emajendat, by Lauren Halsey at Serpentine South – till 2nd March 2025
For the past decade, Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles, USA) has developed a distinct visual language deeply rooted in South Central Los Angeles, where her family has lived for generations. Through objects and installations, Halsey archives and remixes her environment’s changing signs and symbols, gathering physical and graphic material from her neighbourhood.
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Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami at Gagosian Gallery – 10th til 8th March 2025
Gagosian is pleased to announce Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami, an exhibition of new paintings by Murakami at its Grosvenor Hill gallery in London. In this presentation, the artist pursues his fascination with the narrative of Japanese art by offering his interpretations of historical paintings.
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Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit at Tate Modern – till 9th March 2025
Discover the elaborate, provocative and imaginary worlds of experimental artist Mike Kelley. From the late 1970s to 2012, Kelley made a diverse body of work using drawing, collage, performance, found objects, and video.
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Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London at Fashion & Textile Museum – till 9th March 2025
Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London exhibition centres around the legendary nightclub Taboo, opened by designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery in 1985.
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Hyundai Commission Mire Lee at Tate Modern Turbine Hall – till 16th March 2025
Mire Lee will create an exciting new artwork for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
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The world of Tim Burton at Design Museum till 21st April 2025
Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition, exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers.
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Vogue Inventing the Runway at Lightroom, Kings Cross – 13th till 26th April 2025
VOGUE: Inventing the Runway is a spectacular new immersive exhibition exploring the history of the fashion runway show, from the intimate couture salons of the early 20th century to the unforgettable pop-culture events of the present.
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THE 80s: PHOTOGRAPHING BRITAIN, Tate Britain – 19th till 5th May 2025
Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.
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Electric Dreams – Art & Technology before the Internet, Tate Modern – 28th till 1st June 2025
Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s. From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Electric Dreams celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically generated works.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year at Natural History Museum – till 29th June 2025
Experience the wonder of life on Earth through the world’s best wildlife photography. Our photography exhibition is back for its sixtieth year to reveal more of nature’s stories. It’ll take you on a visual adventure through different environments and give you a window into the wildlife that calls them home.
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