OG Youth Collective

If you’re 14 - 24 and curious about art, making, and ideas, we welcome you to join the OG Youth Collective for free drop in creative sessions.

Upcoming Sessions

Sunday, 23rd November 2025

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

The Foundling Museum

Gather & Create: Networking with Assemblage Collective

Join Assemblage Collective and the OG Youth Collective for a lino-printing session with a twist! We’ll explore the museum, share ideas, and experiment with unexpected materials to create bold printed artworks together.

Monday 24th, November 2025

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
October Gallery

Join the OG Youth Collective for a hands-on curatorial session with October Gallery’s curatorial team. We’ll explore how artworks are placed, lit, and understood in the space, with a focus on the El Anatsui pieces currently on display.

Booking is essential. Please email Esther esther@octobergallery.co. uk or contact us via Instagram.

Additional Dates

Monday, 15th December 2025

4.30 PM - 6.30 PM

October Gallery

We’ll be back at the gallery to respond to the work of Govinda Sah Azad, an October Gallery artist whose practice explores energy, abstraction, and spiritual transformation. We’ll experiment with marbling techniques on 3D objects, bringing some colour to the grey winter days!

About The OG Youth Collective

This is a FREE drop-in art group for young people living in London aged 14 - 24. We usually meet on the first and last Monday of every month. We welcome everyone and do all sorts. We make art, film, create exhibitions and discuss current events, as well as visiting other local museums and galleries to further our understanding of contemporary art and exhibitions.

The OG Youth Collective sessions offer opportunities to develop traditional and contemporary art skills. The sessions are led by artists, designers, and OG youth leaders. Covering a range of creative industries including art, design, craft, fashion, digital media, and performance.

Youth Collective members are offered work experience opportunities and youth leadership roles, including programme planning and curatorial input. We support young people in gaining GCSE/AS Level and A Level arts qualifications and CV development and have a yearly exhibition at October Gallery.

If you would like to find out more about the group; other work experience and volunteering opportunities within our education programme, please email Esther Adesigbin, Esther@octobergallery.co.uk

Tonight - Youth Collective Session
Monday 24th November, 4.30–6.30pm at October Gallery

This one’s a bit special.
We’ll be working with the curatorial team to re-position some of El Anatsui’s artworks exhibited in Go Back and Pick.
We’ll also build a mini gallery model to imagine and design our own exhibition layouts.

FREE creative workshops for young people, aged 14 to 24 living in London

Please DM or email education@octobergallery.co.uk to let me know if you’re coming (and if you’re bringing a friend) so we can plan the groups.

#youthcollective #octobergallery #elAnatsui #arteducation #londonarts #youngartists #camdenyouth #gallerylife #creativecommunity #artevent #youngcreatives #contemporaryart #artworkshop #londonstudents #artpractice #curatorialpractice

Tomorrow starts two days of creative FREE art workshops for the OG Youth Collective ✨
First up is Sunday 23 Nov at the Foundling Museum (1.30–4pm) Lino printing with @taschtastic and @assemblagecollective_ + a free museum tour!

Drop in to join us if you are 14-24 and living in London…

Then Monday 24 Nov @octobergallerylondon (4.30–6.30pm) Curatorial session working with the curator team team re arranging an El Anatsui art piece! And making our own mini gallery model and show.

Come to one or both - all welcome.👋🏾
 Please send a quick message if you’re joining so we can plan numbers for each session.
Excited to see you all 💛

#YouthCollective #OctoberGallery #CreativeMaking #ElAnatsui #LinoPrinting #FoundlingMuseum #LondonYouthArts

UPDATE: Tomorrow’s session is cancelled.
A new date has not been confirmed yet - we will share details soon. 🌟 Youth Collective -
Free creative space for young people aged 14 - 24 at October Gallery.

Join us for a special session. Working with the Curator team to reposition and redesign one of El Anatsui’s exhibited artworks on show in ‘Go Back and Pick’. We will be able to work as a team to think about the artworks placement, layout, and story.

We’ll also build a mini model of a gallery space using ethically sourced balsa board, card, cut-outs and simple materials - designing our own small exhibition and experimenting with themes for a show.

Everyone is welcome, and it’s completely free. Snacks are always provided.
If you’d like to come (or bring a friend), just send a quick message so we can plan the groups.

#YouthCollective #OctoberGallery #ElAnatsui #GoBackAndPick #CreativeYouth #GalleryDesign #YoungArtists #LondonArts #FreeArts #CreativeCommunity #ogyouthcollective

Transformation Workshop
The Youth Collective is back at October Gallery this Monday 20th October, 4.30 - 6.30pm, with guest artist @taschtastic ✨
Together we’ll explore printmaking and concertina bookmaking, inspired by El Anatsui’s exhibition Go Back and Pick - a hands-on, creative session about transformation, and material play.

Free drop in session open to anyone living in London aged 14–24.
All materials provided - just come ready to make.

#YouthCollective #OctoberGallery #ElAnatsui #GoBackAndPick #AssemblageCollective #TaschTastic #ArtWorkshops #LondonYouthArts #CreativeCommunity #Printmaking #ConcertinaBook #ArtInProgress #MaterialTransformation #YoungArtistsLondon #GalleryLife #ArtEducation #MakingTogether #VisualVoices #ArtForChange

It’s a trip👏🏽
We’re back in session and heading out to the South London Gallery this Sunday from 11am - 3pm.

Drop in and join us for a friendly, creative session looking, chatting, and making inspired by Yto Barrada’s ✨ THRILL FILL SPILL.

Barrada’s work traces stories of migration, transformation, and everyday acts of resistance through sculpture, photography, and film. Together we’ll spend time sharing ideas, sketching, and thinking about how artists transform materials.

Sunday 12th October, 11am – 3pm
South London Gallery
www.southlondongallery.org

The OG Youth Collective is free and open to anyone aged 14–25 living in London.
We’ll bring sketchbooks and materials, but you’re welcome to bring your own.

To join or find out more, contact esther@octobergallery.co.uk 👋🏾 — see the link in our bio — or DM us.

#OGYouthCollective #OctoberGallery #YtoBarrada #SouthLondonGallery #CrossingHistories #ThrillFillSpill #ArtAndResistance #YoungArtistsLondon #FreeArtWorkshops #CreativeCommunity #MigrationAndMemory #ArtEducation #LondonArts

Hi everyone 🌟 just sharing an amazing opportunity for 16–25 year olds - free entry into the awesome 🙌🏽 Kerry James Marshall: The Histories exhibition tomorrow Sat 4th Oct. Loads of events happening throughout the day at the Royal Academy of Arts 🎨

👉 https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/kerry-james-marshall-free-opening-for-16-25-year-olds

Some of the Youth Collective will be there 😁 after 2pm to find out more the RA Youth Programme. DM us if you’d like to say hi 👋🏾

And don’t forget - our next Youth Collective trip is on Sun 12th Oct at South London Gallery 🖤

Monday 21st July, 4.30 - 6.30pm @octobergallerylondon
We’re making work towards the Education exhibition!

We’ll be finalising our collaborative tablecloth and starting Sculptural Self-Portraits: using wrapped materials and found objects to explore identity through form. We’ll be looking at the intricate wrapped forms of fabric sculptor Judith Scott for inspiration.

Join us to shape what will go on show in our upcoming exhibition:

🧵Beyond the Weave: Crafting Traditions, Sparking Play
📅 31 July – 2 August
📍 October Gallery main space
🎨 A celebration of craft, play, and sensory storytelling

October Gallery Youth Collective
✨ FREE for young people aged 14–24 living in London
Come and join us :)
Supported by @love.camden

#YouthCollective #FreeArtWorkshops #LondonYouth #OctoberGallery #ArtExhibition #CraftingTraditions #SculpturalArt #JudithScott #WrappedArt #BeyondTheWeave #IdentityThroughArt #PlayfulMaking #CollectiveCreativity

OG Youth Collective tonight: Monday 30 June, 4.30 - 6.30 pm @octobergallerylondon

Join us as we screen print bold, symbolic designs onto our collaborative cloth artwork - which will be showcased in this year’s October Gallery Education exhibition! ✨
We’re exploring place and hidden meaning, drawing inspiration from…

The Aubrey Williams Elemental Force exhibition - surrounded by his vibrant expressive paintings we will explore his deep connections to place and identity.

Althea McNish, a pioneering Trinidad-born textile designer and also a fellow founding member of London’s Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in the 1960s. She brought rich, botanical imagery 🌿 and bold colour into British post-war design and challenged fine‑art/textile boundaries.

We’ll be screen printing together, layering shapes, textures, and colours, onto shared cloth, creating a collective artwork that reflects our sense of place.

FREE for Londoners aged 14–24. DM or email esther@octobergallery.co.uk to join. See you tonight!

#YouthCollective
#OctoberGallery
#LondonYouthArt
#ScreenPrinting
#CollaborativeArt
#TextileArt
#AubreyWilliams
#AltheaMcNish
#CaribbeanArtistsMovement
#PlaceAndMeaning
#YouthCreativity
#HandsOnArt
#emergingcreatives

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What Youth Collective Members say:

‘Through the Youth Collective I have visited galleries and exhibitions that I wouldn’t have visited alone, and had amazing in-depth conversations about art with others in the group. Being a part of the Youth Collective helps me to see art in a different way.’

‘The OG youth collective has helped me become much more confident within the world of art, it has opened up so many different networks and opportunities that I wouldn’t be able to get elsewhere.’

‘The OG education team have helped me so much and given me the space where I can express myself freely and creatively and even just talk about something that has been on my mind. Whenever I have been having a bad week the YC is always a place I can detach from everything going around and just have a fun time.’

The October Gallery Education Youth Programme is kindly supported by Camden Council