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How I create… with artist Luke Jerram
Artist Luke Jerram – a white man with short dark hair – stands in front of his work Museum of the Moon
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How I create… with artist Luke Jerram

The artist known for his large-scale installations talks about his creative approach, from a milkman’s work ethic to choosing which rules to follow.

How I create… with painter and illustrator Malak Mattar
A woman with long wavy dark hair wears a double-breasted red blazer, standing in front of an art studio wall with sketches.
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How I create… with painter and illustrator Malak Mattar

The Palestinian painter on how art saved her, and discovering the valuable skill of collaboration.

5 things to know about Refugee Week
A man sits on a stage floor beside a kora, silhouetted against a large, glowing orange circular backdrop.
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5 things to know about Refugee Week

Find out about how Refugee Week has grown, and how it will be celebrated here at the Southbank Centre this year.

5 things to know about Anish Kapoor
Artist Anish Kapoor stands in front of a red, white and black background. His hands are in the pocket of his brown coat and he looks directly at the camera
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5 things to know about Anish Kapoor

Ahead of his major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, get a primer on one of the most influential artists of our time.

How did an artist fit a WHOLE CITY into a suitcase?
A miniature London emerges from a suitcase
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Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart, Portable Cities and ‘second skin’

Go behind the works of Yin Xiuzhen’s Hayward Gallery exhibition in the company of Senior Curator Yung Ma and choreographer Julia Cheng.

How I create... with visual artist Yin Xiuzhen
The artist Yin Xiuzhen stands win front of her installation A Heart to Heart in the Hayward Gallery exhibition of the same name.
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How I create... with visual artist Yin Xiuzhen

The artist behind our current Hayward Gallery exhibition on ideas she can’t abandon, and the evolution of her creative process.

Chiharu Shiota: red string, black threads and cultural identity
Two people stand on either side of an open door in Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life
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Chiharu Shiota: red string, black threads and cultural identity

Take a video tour of the Hayward Gallery exhibition Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life with Senior Curator Yung Ma and our Associate Artist Julia Cheng.

5 things to know about Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life
A woman with dark hair in a black blouse stands behind a curtain of hanging red strings and scattered white papers.
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5 things to know about Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life

Read an introduction to the artist and her celebrated immersive large-scale installations.

Chiharu Shiota: ‘It’s when I’m in pain that I want to create most’
The artist Chiharu Shiota, stands within the threads of her art work Letters of Thanks
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Chiharu Shiota: ‘It’s when I’m in pain that I want to create most’

The acclaimed visual and performance artist talks to Marigold Warner about suffering, surviving and ‘pushing things to the limit’.

5 things to know about Yin Xiuzhen
The artist Yin Xiuzhen, a women with long dark hair, stands in front of her sculpture Collective Subconscious (Blue) inside the Hayward Gallery
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5 things to know about Yin Xiuzhen

An introduction to the artist renowned for turning found and secondhand items into immersive installations and sculptures.

‘You have to be creative in prison’: Life After Prison podcast joins Inua Ellams for Koestler Arts
Life After Prison podcast hosts Zak (a tall Black man) and Jules (a young mixed race woman) look at works within the Koestler Arts exhibition with poet Inua Ellams  (a Black man wearing a colourful jacket and a Zanna Bukar hat)
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‘You have to be creative in prison’: Life After Prison podcast joins Inua Ellams for Koestler Arts

Join Life After Prison podcast hosts Zak and Jules and poet and curator Inua Ellams for a video tour of the 2025 Koestler Arts exhibition.

5 things to know about Koestler Arts: Night Owls and Abstractions
A person with long red hair wearing a blue sweater holds up her phone to photograph a picture within the Koestler Arts exhibition
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5 things to know about Koestler Arts: Night Owls and Abstractions

Get an insight into the 18th annual Koestler Arts exhibition, currently at the Southbank Centre, curated by poet and playwright Inua Ellams.