Upcoming Session

Monday, 22nd June, 2026

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

October Gallery

FREE

The OG Youth Collective will be out and about THIS Sunday!

Join us as we head to Two Temple Place to explore The Weight of Being, an exhibition exploring themes of vulnerability, resilience and mental health through modern and contemporary art.

This creative session will be led by Youth Collective member and artist–photographer @mayabarter / @mayabarterphotography ✨

Together we will explore the exhibition through a photography scavenger hunt and create together in an on-site community space.

Excited to see you all 💛

Follow the link in our bio to register for the Youth Collective

📍 Two Temple Place London WC2R 3BD
🗓 Sunday 19th April
⏰ 11:00am – 2:00pm

This is a free, creative session open to anyone aged 14–24 living in London
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Second photograph credit: Patrick Young
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At OG Youth Collective we experiment.

Pigment.
Paper.
Water.
Oil.
Hands.

In this session we explored marbling, watching hidden patterns emerge as colours moved across the surface.

Inspired by the amazing art work of @govinda_azad 🙌🏽 we built layered colour through process and experimentation.

Next week we take that spirit further.

Paper clay.
Gold leaf.
Thread.

Together we will create individual artworks and then connect them across the gallery to form one collective installation.

Asking - What gives life meaning?

Come and add your creative thoughts.

📍 October Gallery
🗓 Monday 23 March
⏰ 4:30 – 6:30pm
Ages 14–24
Free creative sessions from @og_education

Thank you @mayabarter @mayabarterphotography for the reel 🌟

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Start next week with making ✨

OG Youth Collective is a space to meet, make, experiment and think together.

Next Monday we’re opening the gallery to other young people for a special session:

What?! The Meaning of Life

Inspired by the Kenji Yoshida exhibition we’ll be making paper artworks, experimenting with materials, and stitching our ideas together across the gallery space.

Expect
gold leaf
paper clay
thread
big questions
and creative energy.

📍 October Gallery
🗓 Monday 23 March
⏰ 4:30 – 6:30pm
Ages 14–24

Bring your ideas. Bring a friend.

Come and live life like it’s golden ✨

OG Youth Collective
Monday 9 March | 4:30–6:30pm
October Gallery

Exploring the work of Kenji Yoshida, tonight at OG Youth Collective we’ll be channelling the experimental spirit of Atelier 17. Together we’ll activate colour with water, experiment with pigments, and create our own metal printing plates using simple tools, texture and hand pressure.

We’ll press, scratch and shape the surface of thin metal, then use our plates to print.

FREE friendly creative session. Open to young people living in London aged 14–24.

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Lineages Ink Lab
🖤 OG Youth Collective

Monday 9th February 2026
🕟 4:30–6:30pm
📍 October Gallery

FREE — for 14–24 year olds living in London

Join the OG Youth Collective for a relaxed evening of large-scale ink drawing. We’ll explore the amazing Lineages exhibition and experiment with expressive and controlled mark-making, responding to how artist Golnaz Fathi develops a personal visual language through line, rhythm, and repetition.
No art experience needed - drop in to join or DM us 👋🏽

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✨ Youth Collective – Happy New Year! ✨

Tonight Monday 12 January 2026
4:30–6:30 PM @octobergallerylondon

FREE creative session – open to 14–24 year olds living in London

We’re really excited to start the year together with a hands-on workshop inspired by Govinda Sah ‘Azad’, whose work explores energy, abstraction and spiritual transformation.
@govinda_azad

This session continues our exploration of the current exhibition at October Gallery, focusing on how Govinda Sah ‘Azad’ reveals what is hidden and connects to unseen energies through material and process. We’ll work together pressing textures from natural objects into clay, then casting them into small plaster reliefs.

Looking forward to the beginning of a new year together as a collective🧡

Drop in and join us, or email Esther at esther@octobergallery.co.uk, or message us on Instagram to be part of the OG Youth Collective.

🌱👐 ✨

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If you’re 14 - 24 and curious about art, making, and ideas, we welcome you to join the OG Youth Collective These are FREE and artist-led creative sessions. There is no need for formal experience to join!

What We Carry

Join OG Youth Collective for a hands-on workshop responding to Sokari Douglas Camp’s Fashion & Fortune exhibition on National Windrush Day. Using pierced aluminium, embossing, metal painting, fabric and weaving, we will create wearable tokens exploring what we carry, protect, transform and reveal as we move between places, histories, identities and versions of ourselves.

No experience is needed — just bring curiosity and a willingness to experiment with materials and ideas!

You can sign up to join the OG Youth Collective via the form available here or you can just drop-in on the session day.

Access the sign-up form

via the QR code:

or email esther@octobergallery.co.uk

Additional Dates

Open to young creatives of all levels, join us for the next sessions and enjoy some playful creation, chat, and snacks!

Monday, 6th July, 2026

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

October Gallery

About The OG Youth Collective

The OG Youth Collective is a FREE drop-in art group for young people living in London aged 14–24. We usually meet on the second Monday of every month at October Gallery.

The group is a space for young people to make, experiment, talk, share ideas and connect with contemporary art. Each session responds to current exhibitions at October Gallery, using practical making, discussion and creative exploration to think about identity, culture, materials, storytelling and the world around us.

Recent sessions have included ink and mark-making, print processes, metal work, performance, object-making, exhibition visits and conversations around meaning, memory and belonging. We work with artists, designers, educators and OG youth leaders, exploring a range of creative practices across art, craft, design, fashion, digital media and performance.

The Youth Collective supports young people to develop confidence, creative skills and their own artistic voice. Members can also access work experience, volunteering and youth leadership opportunities, including helping to shape future gallery Education sessions, events and Education exhibitions.

We welcome young people with different levels of experience — whether you are studying art, building a portfolio, interested in creative careers, or simply want a friendly place to make and try things out.

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

Or drop in to a session, no need to book.

What Youth Collective Members say:

'The Youth Collective has been an incredible community. I’ve connected with different people, tried new techniques, and felt real pride seeing our collaborative and personal artworks displayed publicly.' Layla

'Youth Collective is welcoming and creative. I’ve experimented with materials, met like-minded people, exhibited work, and gained paid teaching assistant experience that has supported my personal and career development.' Tom

‘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.’ Meera

‘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.’ Tessa

‘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.’

'Youth Collective has given me confidence as an artist, a sense of community, public exhibition opportunities and paid gallery experience. It has genuinely supported my wellbeing and creative future.' Maya

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