28 March – 31 August 2026
All The Things: Exploring play and imagination across generations
2 January 2025 – 31 August 2026
Tending to the Centres: RESOLVE Collective
3 April – 7 June 2026
Sequoia Danielle Barnes: With You Darling, All the Time
24 April – 3 July 2026
Play:Make:Art
28 April – 7 July 2026
Curious Tots
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Latest
Tuesday 7 April 2026
New to the Richmond Borough Art Collection: Moving image work by Dzifa Benson
Dzifa’s artwork responds to a portrait of Lady Mary Coke (1727-1811), which is also in the Borough’s art collection. Lady Mary Coke was an English noblewoman whose private letters and journal entries, containing candid observations of people in her circle and political figures, were published after her…
Thursday 5 March 2026
Calling all Emerging Artists!
Submissions for our September 2026–June 2027 Emerging Artists Programme are now open. This opportunity is open to UK-based artists/art collectives who are within the first ten years of their practice, with a body of work ready to exhibit at Orleans House…
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Paloma Durante: The Watershed and Artists Make Space
Artist Paloma Durante participated in Artists Make Space in 2024-25, taking up residency in the Old Town Hall in Richmond. Here she writes about her experience of the programme and and her experience as an artist who moved from Brazil to the…
Collection Highlight
Woollett, William
A Perspective View of the Palace from the Northside of the Lake, the Green House and the Temple of Arethusa, in the Royal Gardens at Kew
Print of the view of the lake, temple of Arethusa and the palace at Kew (White House) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew with figures and a large swan in the foreground by Woolett from the 18th century.
Weddings
The Grade I Listed Octagon Room is available for civil ceremonies for up to 60 guests. Following the ceremony guests can enjoy a drinks reception in the Octagon Room or on our lawns as pictures are taken against the stunning backdrop of the River Thames and surrounding woodlands.