Camden Arts Centre
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Camden Arts Centre is a contemporary visual art gallery, dedicated to engaging living artists from across the world. Positioning the artist at the centre of the programme, Camden Arts Centre strives to involve the public in the ideas and work of today's artists.
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 lively place for seeing, making and talking about contemporary art.
Making Ideas Visible At Camden Arts Centre audiences actively engage with the making and process of art. The free activities represent an innovative and integrated approach to contemporary visual arts and education.
Exhibitions feature emerging artists, international artists showing for the first time in London, significant historic figures who inspire contemporary practice, and artist selected group shows relevant to current debate.
Residencies develop artists' practices with practical support, resulting in new work and public participation.
Off-site artists' projects include new commissions and performance in strategic areas such as King's cross and in local schools and community centres.
Education activity includes events which engage audiences in a regular series of talks and discussions, film screenings and live art performances, all alongside family activities, schools and widening participation projects led by artists.
During 2008/2009, Camden Arts Centre's programme featured a strong selection of artists from Britain and abroad, including specially commissioned work from, amongst others, Claire Barclay, Anya Gallaccio and Allen Ruppersberg.
Over the course of the year Camden Arts Centre runs public events including talks and debates, live-art performances, film screenings and family open days.
The building Camden Arts Centre is a Grade II listed building sited in the London Borough of Camden, London, England, between the areas of Hampstead and Kilburn. It is the largest arts centre venue in North London.
The venue began as the Hampstead Arts Centre in 1965, part of the former 1897 Hampstead public library. It was taken over by the local council in 1967 and renamed the Camden Arts Centre. It ran courses for artists, and also showed artworks. Exhibitions in the larger galleries were the responsibility of the Arkwright Arts Trust, and these were often ambitious and of well-known artists. These aspects of the centre moved away, along with most of the local artists who had frequented the Centre, to become the Hampstead School of Art in 1992.
The original venue reopened as an Arts Council arts centre, after a £4.2 million makeover, in January 2004.
