Bow Arts Trust was established as an educational arts charity in 1995 by Marcel Baettig and Ryan Durrant with the kind support of Marc Schimmel. The Trust is situated by the historic St Mary Atta le Bow Church in the heart of the East End of London, where we offer a community of over 100 artists, affordable, secure, creative workspace.

The Trust also manages one of the countries most exciting education projects. This London wide programme has gained a national reputation for working with and improving the lives and attainment of, thousands of young people from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds. We also are proud to run our own popular contemporary exhibition space called the Nunnery Gallery. The gallery supports local, national as well as international exhibitions within its annual programme of events. It is also available for functions meetings etc.

This year the Trust is expanding again - we have embarked on a new exciting social enterprise scheme in partnership with Poplar HARCA this scheme will provide many young poor artists with the opportunity to afford a live work space and support local projects in the community. Later this year we will be announcing the exciting opening of 10 new creative work spaces purpose built for artists situated at the gateway to the Olympic approach!