Galleries worth the detour

Priya Nair

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Half my life is spent hunting for the right image for someone else's book, so I know a good hang when I see one. These are the places I duck into on the way to or from Walthamstow Wetlands, coffee flask still warm, looking for the frame I'll want on my own wall one day. Some are grand, some are one room above a shop, all of them have made me stand still a bit longer than planned.

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Galleries worth the detour — 6 items
Name	Address	City	Known for	Best time to visit	My take
1William Morris Gallery	Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow	London	Morris's textiles, wallpapers and Pre-Raphaelite circle	Weekday morning, before the school groups land	My local one, practically. Ten minutes from the Wetlands and free, which helps when you're skint between contracts.
2Whitechapel Gallery	77-82 Whitechapel High Street	London	Launching Guernica's only UK showing, now contemporary shows	Thursday evening, open till nine	Walk past the bookshop at your peril, I've lost whole lunch hours in there.
3The Photographers' Gallery	16-18 Ramillies Street	London	Dedicated entirely to photography and the Deutsche Börse Prize	Tuesday, quieter after the weekend rush	Obviously my professional bias is showing here, but it's the one I recommend to every picture researcher I meet.
4Saatchi Gallery	Duke of York's HQ, King's Road	London	Large-scale contemporary and often immersive exhibitions	Midweek afternoon	Big rooms, big egos sometimes, but the scale of some pieces genuinely stops you mid-step.
5Serpentine South Gallery	Kensington Gardens	London	Contemporary art in a park setting and the annual Pavilion	Early summer, for the Pavilion unveiling	Nothing beats wandering out of a show straight into the Gardens, print ideas fully loaded.
6Autograph	Rivington Place	London	Photography centred on identity, race and human rights	Weekday afternoon, it's small so you won't need long	Small space, but I've come out with more notes scribbled here than anywhere twice its size.

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