In our featured galleries this week we take a look at the Camden Arts Centre. As a gallery it is a contemporary visual arts space, dedicated to engaging with the highest calibre artists from across the international arts scene. Placing the artist at the centre, Camden Arts Centre strives to involve members of the public in the ideas and work of today’s artists, and the artists who inspire them.

Where?
Camden Arts Centre,
Arkwright Road,
London,
NW3 6DG

When?
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm
Wednesday 10am-9pm
Closed Mondays & Bank Holidays

How Much?
Exhibitions are usually free.

The exhibition and education programmes are developed with equal importance, and are continually intertwined. The changing programme includes exhibitions, artist residencies, off-site projects and artist-led activities, ensuring Camden Arts Centre remains a dynamic place for seeing, making and talking about art.

Built in 1897 and originally a library, the grade II listed building became an arts centre in the 1960s.

Director Jenni Lomax joined Camden Arts Centre in 1990, and has established an internationally acclaimed programme of exhibitions, residencies, artists’ projects and public events. She also led the organisation through a major building refurbishment scheme which was completed in early 2004 by Tony Fretton Architects.

The beautiful and sensitively designed building now combines the original Victorian Gothic features with a contemporary urban design to enhance space and light.

The gallery has had an extremely successful residency programme which was launched 20 years ago, featuring many great talents in the art world. To celebrate this anniversary, three artists selected from the past programme, have each been invited to the Artist’s Studio for a week to develop a new collaborative piece of work. Each of these projects will the form the basis of the Spiral 2010 Festival programme.

Spiral 2010 Festival will take place on the bank holiday weekend of 28 and 29 August, featuring Serena Korda, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa and Hayley Newman with Andrea Mason and the Gluts. Activities and performances will run throughout the weekend with times events linked to the residency projects, and free activities for all ages taking inspiration from the exhibitions by Jim Hodges and Breda Beban.

In the Drawing Studio, families can drop in to work with Matthew Krishanu using Camden Arts Centre’s garden as a starting point from drawing and printing activities. In the Ceramics Studio, families can have a go at sculpture with Viyki Turnbull combining clay with various materials to create unfired experiments to take home.

We’re very excited to see these artists back at the Camden arts centre and are looking forward to this in August!

For more information please go to : http://www.camdenartscentre.org/artistsinresidence/

Author: Ty_Lee

Ty is a lover of all things art - from the classical to the neo classical, his appetite for art is insatiable. Devouring all forms and patterns, he is constantly on the look out for art that elicits emotion reactions within his own continuum and those of others. Always friendly and happy to have a chin wag about the latest art his Buddhist views permeate the kaleidoscope of his vision.