Limitations Permitted was developed by filmmaker Manu Luksch and artist Neal White.

A small exhibition celebrating the launch of the publication A Dog in the Playground which explored teaching in classrooms as a socially engaged artistic practice, by looking at the role of the teacher as artist.

The Peckham Platform Retrospective was a landmark exhibition that served as a visual timeline of the social arts organisation’s rich community and creative networks.

Peckham Platform commissioned artist and writer Michael McMillan for a commemorative exhibition marking twenty years since Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed.

This specially commissioned film from artist Sonia Boyce explores how forms of social communication such as mobile phones and social networking sites like Facebook have become the most popular ways for young people to maintain their relationships with friends and family.

Peckham Platform’s second commission as an independent organisation followed artist Kathrin Böhm’s interest in collaborative production structures.

Platform Press House was a publishing house formed and run by young people from the organisation’s Youth Platform programme in collaboration with artist Harold Offeh.

Peckham Heroes celebrated Peckham’s historical and famous residents in a lively and innovative artwork where the gallery was transformed into a warm, relaxed and sociable space, encouraging active participation.

This exhibition of a new work by artist Gayle Chong Kwan invited visitors to explore the tastes, textures and smells of a fantastical, three-dimensional mythical landscape.

Gayle Chong Kwan devised a 30ft x 5ft photographic hoarding in Peckham inspired by this text by William Blake: “A tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars”.

Installation at Frieze Art Fair 2017 inspired by a series of workshops with our Youth Platform.

An interactive illustration exhibition that invited the public to create their own fantasy shops for Peckham’s Rye Lane.

Directed by artist Françoise Dupré in collaboration with visual and participatory artist Rebecca Snow, DORA PROJECT was a twelve-month long cross-generational archiving and participatory project based in south east London.

An exhibition of new work by David Blandy that transforms the gallery into a futuristic environment evoking the interior of a starship travelling through distant galaxies.

Myah Asha Jeffers’ new outdoor artwork for the billboard at Peckham Clock Tower, featuring polaroid portraits of Peckham people taken at an event in Peckham Square last year, can be seen until mid July 2026. Look up!

Myah Asha Jeffers’ new exhibition for 2026 draws on intergenerational memory, domestic rituals, kinship structures and the emotional labour of preserving family histories.

Peckham Platform partnered with Maximus and artist Tolu Elusadé for part of Memories for the Future, researching and responding to the intangible heritage of the people who shaped Peckham’s iconic Rye Lane.

Artist and youth worker Meera Shakti Osborne collaborated with teenagers from Inspire Walworth to create a thoughtful and hopeful installation at Peckham’s Sky Shopping City.

In collaboration with the South London Refugee Association, artist, poet, and visual storyteller Tyreis Holder facilitated workshops with young people to co-create a vibrant and healing new artwork at Rye Lane Market.

Painter Koby Martin collaborated with young individuals from Southwark Youth Justice to create a new temporary mural in Peckham.

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.

For our 2022 summer programme Yes Make created a temporary structure on Peckham Square, around which we programmed creative experiences for the local community.

Peckham Platform partnered with Maximus and artist Azarra Amoy for The Pride of Peckham Mega Banner.

This video artwork was developed by young people working with video artist Eva Grace Bor. It is the result of a Peckham Platform programme that invited artist Meera Shakti Osborne and producer A.G. to run workshop sessions with our Youth Platform group.

In 2021 we commissioned Azarra Amoy to create a new public artwork in response to our self-care and placemaking projects.

Our Youth Platform presented a collaborative artwork at the 2021 GALA Festival in Peckham’s Rye Park.

What might the city of the future look like? And whose ideas, needs and dreams should shape it?

Between 1989 and 1995 the Southwark Education Research Project (SERP) engaged over 1,500 children and teachers by placing artists in fifteen schools across the London borough of Southwark.

Janette Parris takes inspiration from the characters, lives and daily interactions of the people living, working in and visiting Peckham’s bustling Rye Lane for this 60 metre artwork.

Artist Janetka Platun uses 3D printing technology, community collaboration and museum practice to respond to Southwark’s Cuming Museum, devastated by fire in 2013.

Melanie Manchot’s multi-channel video installation explores the intimate stories, rituals, repetitions and ruptures of lives spent in addiction and recovery.

From a mobile studio on Peckham Square, artist Eileen Perrier channels 19th century photography techniques to take local people’s portraits.

Ruth Beale explores the idea of the book and public library as generative public space and symbols of self education.

Kimathi Donkor explores themes of race, exclusion and the unknown in contemporary art with Black teenagers living in south east London.

Artist Sarah Cole and the Young Women’s Group invite you into a gallery gone wild with freshly laid grass, frolicking onesies and the sounds of faraway promise.

In 2012, Peckham Platform commissioned Danish artist Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen to make new work in north Peckham, an area in London with no train or tube and only one bus route, the 343. Larsen’s film 343 Perspectives is a set of video portraits of the people who use this bus.

This permanent public artwork celebrates thousands of hopeful messages of peace written by the local community on post-it notes and pasted up onto a wall on Rye Lane following the London riots of 2011.

Barby Asante celebrates, preserves and investigates south Londoners’ personal relationships with moments in Black music history.

In 2010 artist Harold Offeh took the idea of World’s Fairs as a starting point for an exhibition exploring visions of a future Peckham designed by the young people who live there.