London Rivers Week 2026: Coming into {{Contact}} with a River you cannot {{Touch}}

How can we come into contact with rivers we cannot touch?

Join artist, researcher and London National Park City Ranger Becky Lyon for a free pop-up exhibition as part of London Rivers Week 2026, reclaiming contact with water through experimental photography, found materials and performative interventions.

On Saturday 30 May, the artworks will be enlivened by a dynamic, joyful and hopeful conference confluence of splash performances and BYOS aka bring your own slide community lectures. This project is generously supported by the Brent Together Towards Zero Fund and is hosted by Metroland Cultures.

Opening hours

Sat 30 May – 11.00am – 5.00pm (confluence 1-4.30pm)

Sun 31 May – 11am – 4pm 

Address

Metroland Cultures – 91 Kilburn Square, London NW6 6PS

Booking

Exhibition is drop-in

Sign up to be notified when confluence booking goes live here:

https://www.elasticfiction.co/projects/river

About Becky

Becky Lyon is an artist, researcher and London National Park City Ranger. Her practice explores the politics of ecology in England and the possibilities of artists as ecologists and conservationists. She explores sensory knowledge as a way of developing relationships to nature and her work takes the form of sensory installations, playful interventions, sculpture and analogue media formats. She runs Ground Provisions, a ‘schooled-by-the-forest’ for grown-ups and The Department of Artecology, an interdisciplinary research group exploring artist-led environmental practice. She is currently researching for her PhD, “Touch as method for critical ecological stewardship in England” at Goldsmiths University of London and has an MA Art & Ecology and MA Art & Science.