Current show: ORACLES, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 5th March - 14th July

A set of oracle cards that harness contemporary wisdom from the Dulwich Picture Gallery collection.

ORACLES transforms Gallery 12 at Dulwich Picture Gallery into an Oracle Card reading room, inviting visitors to seek advice and wisdom from a bespoke set of oracle cards inspired by Dulwich Picture Gallery’s collection.

Oracle cards are tools for contemplation and are not designed to predict one’s future, instead they encourage us to listen to our intuition.  The ORACLES set takes inspiration from the Gallery’s collection of historic paintings, and were developed through creative conversations with local community groups in Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham. Yara and Davina worked with the groups to explore what paintings from the collection would mean if they were oracle cards and the difference in interpretation was profound. The outcome is a set of cards that offer thoughtful provocations for self-reflection in our modern day lives.

Cards and graphics by Studio Hyperkit.