'Nice to see you!' exhibition

The Gerald Moore Gallery is pleased to present 'Nice to see you!', our annual open call exhibition, this year’s theme is portraiture in the form of painting or painted artwork.

The exhibition celebrates the very best in contemporary portraiture from emerging, mid-career and artists new to painting.

A call out for artworks was announced at the end of January 2025 to artists working in London and the South East. The final artworks in the exhibition were then selected by a panel of 23 young people aged 11-18 from Eltham College who chose artworks, according to whether the artworks moved them and based on based on creativity, originality, and technique.

As part of this exhibition, we are also proud to feature a selection of portraits by the late Dr Gerald Moore, the founder of our gallery. These works, presented in our Paul Henderson space, explore portraiture through religious, spiritual, and existential themes, offering a rich contrast to the contemporary pieces in the main exhibition.