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Exhibition

Kelly Large: To See More Brightly

18 Apr-31 May 2026

Southwark Park Galleries
London SE16 2UA

Overview

Artist Kelly Large presents an artist-curated exhibition and public programme developed from ongoing research examining charisma as a social phenomenon. Featuring sculptural works by Carle Gent and Flora Parrott, Large explores the Anchorite tradition: a Mediaeval practice of both extreme control and form of resistance in which charismatic mystics, mostly women known as anchoresses, were voluntarily and permanently enclosed in ‘anchorholds’.