Image: Peter Blake in his studio, 2021. Photo: Jonathan Donovan. Artworks © Peter Blake. Courtesy: Waddington Custot Galleries, London, Paris, Dubai
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery in London will stage ‘Peter Blake: In the Studio’ from 25 November 2026 to 18 April 2027, bringing together works spanning the seven-decade career of Sir Peter Blake (b. 1932). The exhibition will combine paintings, sculpture, collages and works on paper with a recreation of Blake’s West London studio.
At the centre of the presentation will be an immersive reconstruction of the artist’s working environment. Blake’s studio is located in nearby Hammersmith, and the exhibition will recreate the space inside Pitzhanger, offering visitors an intimate view of the setting in which he has worked over many years.
The reconstructed studio will also represent Blake’s collection of curiosities, memorabilia and artefacts. According to the exhibition announcement, these objects have formed part of the environment around his practice and have provided sources of inspiration. The display is intended to show not only a physical workspace but also the accumulation of material surrounding the artist’s imagination.
Alongside the studio installation, the exhibition will present works that reflect the breadth of Blake’s output. The selection will include paintings, sculpture, collages and works on paper, with the announcement also identifying Blake’s wider engagement with prints and album covers as part of his career. Together, the works will explore his sustained interest in popular culture and in British and American cultural life.
Blake is described in the announcement as one of the most celebrated and influential artists of 20th-century Britain and as a defining figure in British Pop Art. His practice has moved across several formats rather than remaining confined to painting, a range reflected in the exhibition’s inclusion of three-dimensional works, collage and paper-based pieces alongside paintings. Pitzhanger says the show will run from his early-1960s work to very recent pieces, and will also examine his own role as a collector and “superfan”.
The exhibition also leans on its setting. Pitzhanger says Blake’s interests in music and film echo Ealing’s own cultural history, from The Ealing Club to Ealing Studios, and that works responding to William Hogarth (1697–1764) will hang in the Manor’s Small Drawing Room, where Soane originally displayed Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress. The exhibition is curated by Jake Twyford and Louise Shorr.
The London gallery Paul Stolper, whose newsletter carried the announcement, listed it as part of a programme of current and forthcoming loans and exhibitions that also includes projects involving artists Brian Eno and Susie Hamilton. Those presentations are separate from Blake’s exhibition at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. ‘Peter Blake: In the Studio’ will remain on view at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ, through 18 April 2027, with access included in general admission.
