Nostalgia, anyone? Andy Earl Opens a Free Exhibition Inside Bankside Yards’ Hidden Arches
21 May, 2026
Words Defined Team
There’s something strangely fitting about an exhibition built around memory, music history and image-making opening inside a space London itself forgot existed.
This month, Andy Earl takes over one of the newly restored Victorian railway arches at Bankside Yards for a free public exhibition spanning four decades of work across music, portraiture and surreal image-making. It also marks the first time the South Bank arches have opened to the public in more than 150 years.
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Prince by Andy Earl 1994
The exhibition — Andy Earl x Bankside Yards — brings together 40 works ranging from intimate portraiture to cinematic large-scale pieces, tracing the visual language Earl helped shape across pop culture throughout the ‘80s, ‘90s and beyond. His archive includes collaborations with Sir David Attenborough, Madonna, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Robbie Williams and The Rolling Stones — artists whose imagery became inseparable from the culture surrounding them.
The exhibition runs from 8 May at Arch 10, Bankside Yards, Blackfriars Road, and is free to attend via registration.
