London Gallery West

Dynamic, challenging and relevant, London Gallery West comprises two contemporary exhibition spaces located at our Harrow Campus.

The gallery showcases the media, art and design work of our current students and alumni, and plays host to renowned local, national and international artists. It forms a focal point for the campus and is an inspirational destination for students, staff, and the wider public.

Collaborations with high-profile galleries and local arts groups ensure London Gallery West plays a key role within the art community and beyond.

Main exhibition space

The Project Space

Visualising Creative Destruction: A Photographic Study of Urban Change in Salford, UK by John van Aitken

23-30 January 2025

This exhibition is a case study located in Salford, UK, once firmly fixed in the national imagination as the archetypal industrial city. Like many cities across the world today, Salford is attempting to morph itself into a contemporary landscape of chic residential tower blocks, waterside apartments, and stylish creative industry hubs. Situating this real estate revolution within Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of ‘creative destruction’, van Aitken's research navigates this emergent landscape in which the apartment has now become a dominant commodity form, replacing textiles and engineering.

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London Gallery West has been open to the public since 2003. We have an archive of some of our previous events and exhibitions, from a huge range of artists dating back to 2010.

The gallery exhibition programme reflects the long tradition of teaching and research in fine art, illustration and design, fashion, photography and media. The programme also engages with the wider visual art world through high profile national and international shows, bringing contemporary art to the campus and the wider community.