Come explore the Bussey Building at our festive open studios. Discover what goes on in the historic corridors and see work spanning crafts, painting, photography, printmaking, homewares, fashion, jewellery, architecture, tattoo & lots more!

Coinciding with legendary Peckham Christmas market Pexmas, the studios will be open 11am - 6pm across Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December. See who's taking part this year below:

Amy Binns
Painting (Studio BGF)
Saturday & Sunday

Working mainly with acrylic on canvas, Amy’s paintings explore themes of contrast and contradiction; oscillating between the “good” and the “bad”. Influenced by consumerism, popular culture and everyday life, Amy’s work is bright, bold and graphic in style. By juxtaposing upbeat visuals with dark themes, Amy finds humour and irony in the mundane.

Bianca Saunders
Fashion & Textiles (Studio BGN)
Sunday

Bianca Saunders is a London-based menswear designer known for blending her British and Jamaican heritage with innovative tailoring and gender-fluid aesthetics. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, she launched her label in 2017 and quickly gained recognition for reimagining masculinity through culture, structure, and movement. Saunders has earned major fashion awards, including the ANDAM Grand Prix and BFC/GQ Designer Fashion Fund, and has presented collections in London and Paris. Her work pushes boundaries while staying grounded in identity and sustainability

@THEPALACEOFTHEDOGS PRESENTS:
Valeria Salinas Toro, Audrey Damier & Tallawah
Mixed Media (Studio A3B)
Saturday & Sunday

Featuring Valeria Salinas Toro, Audrey Damier, and Tallawah, this exhibition brings together three visual artists working across photography, painting, and collage. Each artist explores ideas of community, visibility, and identity, grounding their practices in the vibrant cultural fabric of South London. Their works highlight the originators of the area’s diverse identity – those who have shaped, redefined, and sustained it through creative expression and collective care.

Curated by @thepalaceofthedogs, a platform founded and run by Danny Bailey, this presentation continues the initiative’s mission to document decolonial practices and support Black and Brown artists in exploring activist and community-centered work. Through residencies, exhibitions, and shared resources, The Palace of the Dogs positions art as a provocation for change and a tool for imagining new futures – where visibility, belonging, and resistance intertwine.

Grizelda Kitching
Painting (Studio A4G)
Saturday & Sunday

Grizelda Kitching is an artist and printmaker from Peckham, South East London.

Grizelda’s practice primarily involves paper-based, process-led, printmaking. Typically using photography to capture images as a starting point, then developing a response to the original imagery through colour and mark-making. The development continues resulting in abstract, spontaneous pieces through the use of mono-screenprint.

Story Designs
Fashion & Textiles (Studio A4D)
Saturday & Sunday

Story is a textile design studio dedicated to providing exceptional hand crafted, modern embroidery and embellishment designs for the fashion and homeware industry. They also work on private commissions and events.

Story Designs will be showcasing original bespoke embroidery designs for fashion and home – they will be also presenting “Neverending Floral” a display of eternal and everlasting florals and wreaths.

Just Trade
Jewellery & Accessories (Studio BGH)
Saturday & Sunday

Just Trade is a well respected jewellery and accessories brand built around the interests of the people who make their products. Working in collaboration with makers in Peru, Ecuador, India, Vietnam and Indonesia, they believe in a system of trade that prioritises producers, communities and the environment. They are Guaranteed Members of the World Fair Trade Organization.

Ines Fernandez de Cordova
Printmaking (Studio A4L)
Saturday & Sunday

Ines’s work has many stages – the foundations are sculptures made in plaster or jesmonite. These are then used as tools to create windows to uncanny scenes, playing with the precarious nature of the sculptures, suggesting movement through the use of repetition and collage, using printmaking to hold the composition forever fixed in place.

Sequence is a recurrent theme throughout Ines’s practice. By mirroring and creating parallels in the compositions Ines tries to emphasise the sense that there is a before and an after, a suggestion of some longer story. The sculptures are not necessarily literal representations of anything in particular with the intention that hopefully they evoke a feeling and perhaps nudge a memory for the person looking at them.

Luisa Crosbie
Painting (Studio D1C)
Saturday & Sunday

Luisa is an artist from South East London, who paints props for theatre as her full-time profession whilst using her Bussey Building studio space to pursue her own painting practice, predominantly creating figurative artworks.

Luisa’s work is detail-oriented and colourful, creating paintings using an intentionally unrealistic colour palette so she never has to paint using colours she’s not excited by. She often bases her artworks on her close friends, capturing and recreating intimate interactions observed between them in everyday life. Inspired by her work in props she also uses this experience to restore and decorate old furniture, creating colourful and intricately-painted pieces.

Rosie Martin
Painting (Studio A4G)
Saturday & Sunday

Rosie creates bold, playful images of her home and body, focusing on messy, relatable domestic spaces, especially for people living in transient shared housing environments that feel both personal and universal in their everyday experience.

Lizzie Green
Architectural Design (Studio D1B)
Saturday

Lizzie Green designs and curates spaces with a contemporary touch, celebrating the nuances of colour, comfort and spatial harmony. Her thoughtful approach to interior design is inspired by a deep love of art history and a passion for designing interiors that blend the rich textures of the past with contemporary elegance; resulting in timeless styles reflecting history’s patina paired with modern sensibilities.

Polysmiths
Architectural Design (Studio A4H)
Saturday & Sunday

Polysmiths craft architecture and interiors that are contemporary, sustainable, and deeply personal. Their award-winning studio is led by architect Charles Wu, whose experience brings together thoughtful design and bold materiality across residential, commercial, and cultural sectors.

Expertise includes Residential Architecture: Renovation, Extensions, New Builds; Interior Design: Tailored spaces for modern living; Hospitality & Retail: Restaurants, boutique hotels, galleries; and Feasibility & Planning: working across many Boroughs in London, navigating London’s complex planning context.

Stella McGarvey
Photography (Studio DG1)
Saturday & Sunday

Stella Grigor McGarvey (b. 2000 Glasgow) is a multidisciplinary artist based in South London, working primarily with photography, installation, video and sculpture. Using analogue photographic processes and sculptural forms, McGarvey draws attention to what is slipping from view or gone – highlighting voids and fragile imprints. She often treats the darkroom as a space for material thinking. Selective dodging, burning and long exposures leave behind imperfect traces – spectral marks that evoke the unreliability of remembering. Her images often depict objects in couplets or partial forms, evoking suggestions of bodies, companions, or ghosts.

Viv Universe
Fashion & Textiles (Studio A4G)
Saturday & Sunday

Rita is a filmmaker by day, but with a passion for knitting. After buying her first knitting machine two years ago she has sold at markets across London and online selling knitted bandanas and scarves made from dead stock yarn. The name Viv Universe is after her nan, Vivienne, who was a prolific knitter throughout her life.

This Uniform
Fashion & Textiles (Studio DGF)
Saturday & Sunday

This Uniform is a London-based clothing brand founded by designer Esme Marsh and built on longevity, localism, and responsible consumption. Each capsule is thoughtfully designed and made locally, rejecting fast, trend-driven fashion in favour of garments that endure – in style, quality, and meaning.

Often working with fabrics that already carry character, This Uniform primarily uses locally sourced and vintage materials, introducing new textiles only with care and intention. Durability guides every decision; clothing is created to be worn, lived in, and last.

The Temple Tattoo
Tattoo (Studio DGA)
Saturday & Sunday

The Temple Tattoo studio is a modern, vibrant, and inviting space, where skilled artists blend tradition with contemporary flair to craft personalised tattoos that tell your story.

From intricate blackwork, vibrant colour pieces or delicate fine line design, The Temple Tattoo specialise in bringing your values and vision to life, where creativity knows no bounds.

The Garment Studio
Fashion & Textiles (Studio A4M)
Saturday & Sunday

Born from a love for craftsmanship and a desire to create a more sustainable fashion industry, The Garment Studio is a place where everyone can learn to sew in a supportive and creative environment. They believe that everyone can learn to create beautiful garments, and their hands-on classes are designed to guide you from your very first stitch to crafting your own wardrobe.

The Garment Studio offer sewing classes for all levels, as well as one-to-one tuition, in a small, friendly, and informal learning atmosphere with each individual in mind. Whether you’re absolutely new to sewing or looking to master a specific technique, their classes are designed to give you a quick, consistent, and deep start into the world of making.

Litanga
Other (Studio A4K)
Saturday & Sunday

Litanga’s studio is used to host events that bring community together through food and the sharing of Congolese culture. They provide the resources for those who are interested in developing their creativity.

Dan Gee
Fashion & Textiles (Studio DGF)
Saturday & Sunday

Dan Gee learnt how to sew through YouTube a few years ago before starting their own personal brand focusing on creating interesting, practical and technical bags. This year they have ventured into making apparel.

Search Party
Other (Studio D1F)
Saturday & Sunday

Search Party are a commercials editing studio specialising in offline editing with the incorporation of VFX, motion design and AI generation.

Spark the Difference
Other (Studio A4A)
Saturday & Sunday

Spark the Difference is a purpose-led consultancy that helps councils, NHS teams and communities redesign public services with empathy, insight and imagination. Their mission is to rekindle humanity in public services.

They focus on health, social care and SEND, with a particular commitment to co-producing change alongside children, young people and families, as well as the staff who create and deliver services – using lived experience storytelling, participatory design and data strategy to shape inclusive systems that feel more human – and work better for everyone.

Visitors to their studio can explore how lived experience and data come together to influence policy, learn about the narratives behind their work, and find out how to support or get involved.

Style At Maison
Fashion & Textiles (Red Stairs Foyer)
Saturday & Sunday

Style At Maison’s clothing ranges from classic, preppy styles to more modern, statement pieces designed to stand out – all made from yarn that incorporates multiple bright or vibrant hues.