Welcome to our online home. We hope you will get involved with Peckham Platform, as an artist, producer or someone in the community who believes that art can help us create a more connected society.

Please explore our programme and the opportunities we have to be creative in Peckham.

Call out! Share Your Story – Memories for the Future

30 May, 25 June, 27 July, 9 August
We invite all who identify as women of Peckham - whether rooted here, raised here, or connected by memory and spirit - to co-create the next chapter of Memories for the Future. Join us in recording your oral histories with a facilitator, where we’ll dive into the richness of your lived experiences and personal reflections.

Call out! Steering Group – Memories for the Future

Friday 27 June, Friday 25 July
We are inviting expressions of interest to join Peckham Platform's newly formed Steering Group – a collective of local voices who will help shape our current programme Memories for the Future, and its pending Oral Histories Platform.

Memories for the Future

June 2024 - October 2025  
Memories for the Future is a hyperlocal community-led programme that researches and responds to the intangible heritage of the people who shaped Peckham’s iconic Rye Lane.

Rye Lane Reconnected

2023-2024
Rye Lane Reconnected, a community-led initiative, collaborated with social artists, residents, and community groups to commission artworks for Peckham's Rye Lane.

Nabiséré Nicole

Growing up between the U.K and Uganda, Nabiséré Nicole gained a unique perspective on the complexities of belonging and identity. After graduating from Central St Martins Womenswear, she established KAKAZI studio in 2018. This came at a time when she was seeking authentic representation of African and Caribbean experiences within the fashion industry. A space […]

Koby Martin x Southwark Youth Justice Service

2023
Artist Koby Martin collaborated with Southwark Youth Justice Service, empowering young voices through painting and music.

Meera Shakti Osborne x Inspire Walworth

2024
London-based art practitioner Meera Shakti Osborne hosted workshops at Inspire Walworth, exploring the significance of participants' neighbourhoods through writing, image-making, and discussion. Participants rediscovered creativity, comfort, and fun while reflecting on what made where they live special.

Tyreis Holder x South London Refugee Association

2024
Artist Tyreis Holder collaborated with South London Refugee Association in workshops exploring therapeutic textile use. Youth discovered creative freedom, patterns, and design, shaping a public artwork. Participants found newfound self-expression, empowering their creative minds.

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells is a socially engaged artist based in Peckham.  As founder of Art Responders she produces international exhibitions and events centred on racial and environmental justice.

Yes Make

Yes Make specialise in public spaces and community projects in London and beyond.

Recipes for Return

2023 - ongoing
Recipes for Return is an online exhibition of photographs created by Yvonne E. Maxwell, accompanied by an original text by poet Qutouf Elobaid that explores the ways that food in culture maintains community.

Yvonne E. Maxwell

Yvonne E. Maxwell is a Saint Lucian-Nigerian self-taught documentary photographer, writer and columnist whose work covers stories on migration, social justice, culture and identity of the Black communities within London and the wider UK. Yvonne also extends her focus to stories surrounding ancestral ties, cultures, familial relationships, health, sexuality and human rights of people from […]

Lola Komolafe

Lola Komolafe is a London- based illustrator and graphic designer engaging with the role of design to provide visibility and representation, particularly for minority and underrepresented groups.

Koby Martin

Koby’s work is an introspective autobiographical exploration of his life as he believes knowing of self is pivotal in the exploration of any subject matter.

Artists

Meet the socially engaged artists working with our communities in Peckham

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