2EJ522N Claudette Colvin (b.1939). Portrait of the pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement, taken in 1954. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

Claudette Colvin: The Teenage Revolutionary Who Ignited a Movement

In the spring of 1955, when the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, were still divided by the sharp lines…


Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga Portrait Photo copyright Jonathan Greet 2024

Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Nature Morte

October Gallery in Bloomsbury, London, is hosting Nature Morte, the latest solo exhibition by Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, one…


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Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga Eala , 2025 . Acrylic and oil on canvas , 188.5 x 203.5 cm . © Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga . Courtesy the Artist and October Gallery, London.
Camden Thursday 16 April – Saturday 16 May 2026

Inheriting the Future

Inheriting the Future is a major group exhibition at October Gallery bringing together new works by Zana Masombuka,…