8 May 2025

Call for artwork for The Gallery Coffee Shop: Our World: Who We Are (Celebrating Pride)

Are you an LGBTQ+ artist who wants to exhibit their work in The Gallery Coffee Shop on Regent Street? Now's your chance! The Gallery Coffee Shop very proudly presents: ‘Our World: Who we are [celebrating pride]’. We are after work of any medium that explores LGBTQ+ identity, however individual artists may interpret this.

Examples of thematic interpretation

  • Portraiture of LGBTQ+ individuals
  • Expressing your own Queer or Trans identity
  • Representing your Queer Love
  • Exposing the subordination faced by our community

Due to recent legalities and policies, we highly encourage Transgender artists to submit work, using this exhibition as a place to be able to share personal stories of Transgender existence, alongside Queer narratives.

Submission closes at Midnight on Monday 26 May.

Apply here

Venue: The Gallery Coffee Shop, 309 Regent St., London W1B 2HW

Additional Information

  • Work must be dropped off between Monday 2nd - Friday 6 June and collected from the Regent Street campus in September. Responsibility lies with the individual
  • Each piece of work must be ready to be installed with a D-ring attachment on the frame/canvas (unless otherwise arranged with the Gallery Coordinator)
  • For any questions or queries, please contact [email protected]

What is The Gallery Coffee Shop?

Open since April 2023, The Gallery Coffee Shop is a student-run art gallery and coffee shop on London’s Regent Street. We exhibit and sell Westminster students’ artistic pieces to the public.

We showcase a range of mediums including painting, illustration, photography, fashion, sculpture, books, film, music and more!

Who can submit work?

If you are a current Westminster student on any course or campus, you are able to submit work to our open calls. 

You do not have to be taking an artistic degree to submit.

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[email protected]