Contemporary gallery and performance space between the canal and City Road (the road behind the drive-in McDonalds). Free entry and a light and pleasant space on two (or more?) floors. I mostly though love the outside space which makes use of the water at the back, maybe a run-off from the canal, which is serene and gorgeous.

This Gallery offers an exciting curation of internationally recognised Artists and a diverse educational programme encouraging and supporting participants to dive more deeply into the Displays and Artist Practice. The gallery Building is also worth seeing and the Gallery Team are always willing to answer questions and help you enjoy your visit.

Cool and stylish gallery space. Free entry. Clean toilets with luxury soap! Current Lisa Milroy exhibition can only be described as joyous and demands a second visit.

One of my favourite contemporary art galleries in London! The Parasol Unit is a beautiful space, hosts great exhibitions and above all has lovely staff. Well worth a visit if you’re in the area wandering along the canal.

I regularly visit Parasol Unit with my students from the Curation & Exhibition Management course at City University. Dr Ziba Ardalan provides a unique platform to international artists the British public is less familiar with. The exhibition she curates are well researched and presented, giving much food for thought and debate and the staff are kind and helpful, providing an excellent visitor experience. The students always feel stimulated and inspired after their visit.

Can't wait to return! My daughter and I stopped by to check out the gallery. Buggies are not permitted in the exhibit, but their Education Coordinator (who I find myself feeling lucky to meet!) was so incredibly nice, she took the time to chat with me about the gallery and offered to watch my daughter for a few minutes so I could quickly browse around the first floor. We will definitely be going back soon.

Great exhibit by Hyon Gyon while I visited. The two stories of gallery space itself is very nice and open. There is also a bookshop / gift shop at the front of the gallery with books from artists who have had shows there in the past. Great spot!

I am an artist educator running some of the youth workshops at Parasol Unit and also take other student groups there whenever I can! The foundation showcases tight and beautifully curated solo shows that give great insight into an artist's practice as well as very engaging group shows. It's an extremely accommodating space with very knowledgeable and helpful staff. Visitors feel intimately involved with the works in the exhibitions due to careful curation and information.

A spectacular building with a breathtaking outside space that hosts beautifully curated, highly ambitious museum-quality exhibitions of international artists of the calibre of Robert Therrien and Monique Frydman. Next door is another great gallery, Victoria Miro, and on the other side a very nice place to eat: Sardine.

Sometimes you walk into a place -like a wood, a memorable building, a cafe, a concert hall, a gallery- and you realise instantly that this is going to part of your life. Parasol Unit has become one of those places for me. How come I had never been before? Perhaps living in the West Country gives me an excuse. But now I am going to visit again and again and again. The welcome is warm and encouraging. You feel you've met a new friend. The galleries are amazing. Generously proportioned, filled with light, and offering an extraordinary view of a courtyard garden that is itself like an act of imagination. And the sensibility on display in the exhibitions and events is impeccable. I started at the top by choosing the Martin Puryear retrospective as the reason for my first visit. But I am confident that any other show I see at Parasol Unit will impress me and give me something to think about.

As an artist and educator working freelance at Parasol Unit for some years, I have always been impressed by the scope and quality of the exhibitions and the openness and support towards my creative projects for the community to participate in, within the beautiful building and gardens of the gallery.