October Gallery Education
OG Youth Collective
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!
Upcoming Sessions
Monday, 9th March, 2026
4:30pm - 6:30pm
October Gallery
Youth Collective Print Lab 17: Metal, Marks + Colour
In this session, we will explore low-tech printing through embossing and printing onto thin metal using simple tools, texture and hand pressure. Inspired by the experimental spirit of Atelier 17 and the materials used by artist Kenji Yoshida, participants will create their own embossed plate and produce a small edition of layered colour prints using powdered pigments and watercolour.
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 this QR code:
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 second 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
Additional Dates
Open to young creatives of all levels, join us in these upcoming sessions filled with playful creation, chat, and snacks!
Monday, 23rd March, 2026
4:30pm - 6:30pm
October Gallery
What?! The Meaning of Life - Youth Event
OG Youth Collective is inviting other youth groups to come and get creative with us as we explore the big question: what gives life meaning? Inspired by the Kenji Yoshida exhibition. We will each make our own paper art works and then stitch and thread everything together across the gallery space, mapping our connections, and experimental making.
Sunday, 19th April, 2026
11:00am - 2:00pm
Location TBC
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.’
What is October Youth Collective?
Human Rights
What Represents Your Identity
National Gallery Trip
The October Gallery Education Youth Programme is kindly supported by Camden Council
