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Camden Art Centre Contemporary art exhibitions and education since 1965. As a charity rooted in our North West London community, we foster a sense of belonging in our spaces.
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Camden Art Centre is a place for art and artists; a place for the curious, the novice and the expert alike. It’s a place to see, to make, to learn and to talk about contemporary art, whether in our building, attending off-site projects or via our digital forums. Camden Art Centre was originally built as a public library and now combines historic architecture with open, modern spaces, a café, bookshop and secluded garden, with free entry for all. Through our programme of exhibitions, learning, courses, events and residencies, we invite everyone to engage with art and the people that make it – to push boundaries and connect to their own creativity. Our off-site projects share our work with diverse communities and our digital, publishing and broadcast platforms help us connect art, artists and people in ever more immediate and interesting ways. Working closely with local schools, community groups and specialist partners we nurture the next generation of artists, from early years to adulthood, enabling everyone to get up close to art, to meet artists and to make work themselves. Our targeted programmes and sector leadership increase our impact, bringing the arts to those most in need. Much loved by our communities, for over 50 years Camden Art Centre has always worked ahead of the curve, giving early support and exposure to important artists from the UK and abroad including Martin Creed, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Sophie Calle, Yinka Shonibare, Mike Nelson and Mary Heilmann. We support artists at every stage of their careers, enabling them to make and show work that is relevant for today: brave, challenging, engaging and vital. Camden Arts Centre is a registered charity. Registered Charity Number 1065829

19/10/2026

Why sculpture? Artist Liz Larner on materials and meanings.

Spanning clay to plastic, ancient myths to outer space, visit the artist's exhibition at Camden Art Centre.

Liz Larner: A hard line to bend
11am–6pm, Wed–Sun
Free entry

Shot: PatrickYoung
Music: Joanna Ward

Coming soon to Camden Art Centre: Process Makes Practice This exhibition marks the culmination of a three-year programme...
16/10/2026

Coming soon to Camden Art Centre: Process Makes Practice

This exhibition marks the culmination of a three-year programme working with artists and young people in Camden.

Featuring installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections on the projects from those involved, this exhibition offers insights from artists working in contemporary engagement projects and into the creativity of young people in our local area.

Process Makes Practice
28 Oct – 8 Nov 2026
11am–6pm, Wed–Sun
Free

Partners and artists involved include: Sidings Community Centre, The Hive, Maria Fidelis Catholic School, The UCL Academy, Shepherd Manyika, Lydia Paulett, Sam Williams, Maymana Arefin, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas and Nancy Allen.

This programme was generously supported by and developed in partnership with The Mildred Fund.

Learn more: https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice

✨ New exhibition review"Beauty, in Larner’s work, is not a humanistic moral value, but a natural occurrence that will in...
09/10/2026

✨ New exhibition review

"Beauty, in Larner’s work, is not a humanistic moral value, but a natural occurrence that will inevitably outlast the Anthropocene."

– Jonathan Griffin, e-flux Criticism

Asteroids are a rather on-the-nose motif in Liz Larner’s otherwise unpredictable visual and conceptual lexicon. Hurled out of the

Visiting us during Freize next week?We will be extending our opening days next week, you can visit us on Monday 12 and T...
08/10/2026

Visiting us during Freize next week?

We will be extending our opening days next week, you can visit us on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 October, as well as our usual Wednesday - Sunday opening days.

Escape the tents at Regent's Park by jumping on the Metropolitan line to visit Camden Art Centre.

👋 We are open from 11am–6pm
📸 Sopo Ramischiwilli

Take our curator's tour 🎧You can now listen to a curator's tour of Liz Larner's 'A hard line to bend'. The tour features...
07/10/2026

Take our curator's tour 🎧

You can now listen to a curator's tour of Liz Larner's 'A hard line to bend'. The tour features six stops in the exhibition, detailing the processes and inspirations behind some of the artworks on display.

🤳 Download the Bloomberg Connects app ahead of your next visit, or scan one of the QR codes in the gallery to access the web browser version.

Visit us, we’re open 👋
Wed-Sun, 11–6pm

Get your hands on our latest artist edition ✨Liz Larner took this photograph of her inscription on the base of 'A hard l...
30/09/2026

Get your hands on our latest artist edition ✨

Liz Larner took this photograph of her inscription on the base of 'A hard line to bend' – the new sculpture made especially for her exhibition at Camden Art Centre.

Liz Larner,
'Lines and fields', 2026
Digital print
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered

🛒 Standard Price £300, Patron’s Price £270
🛍️ Online & in-store

'Smiles' (1996–2011) Inspired by the many modifiers to smiles that appear in literary descriptions, Liz Larner's 'Smiles...
29/09/2026

'Smiles' (1996–2011)

Inspired by the many modifiers to smiles that appear in literary descriptions, Liz Larner's 'Smiles' are slip-cast in porcelain from foam-core models, comprised of geometric shapes.

Visit us, we’re open 👋
Wed-Sun, 11–6pm

🎧 These works feature in our curator's tour, listen on the Bloomberg Connects app.

📸 Rob Harris

Ready, set, make 🎨Family Takeover returns to Camden Art Centre this Autumn. These workshops, led by Tom James, invite ch...
25/09/2026

Ready, set, make 🎨

Family Takeover returns to Camden Art Centre this Autumn. These workshops, led by Tom James, invite children and accompanying adults to make a collective kinetic sculpture loosely inspired by the works in Liz Larner’s exhibition 'A Hard Line to Bend'.

🖌️ Tom James is an artist exploring the function and future of everyday objects, his practice often focuses on re-using things that may otherwise go to waste.

📆 Saturday 10 & 24 October, Saturday 7 & 21 November
🕖 11.15am – 12.15pm & 12.45 – 13.45pm
🎟️ Free
🔗 Book via link in bio

Take home an essay for £2 📚Perfectly pocket sized, our File Notes are a limited series of publications that accompany ea...
24/09/2026

Take home an essay for £2 📚

Perfectly pocket sized, our File Notes are a limited series of publications that accompany each exhibition we host.

Written by artists, academics, thinkers, and cultural icons, the essays offer an insight into an artist and their work.

Pick up a copy of the File Note that accompanies our current show, Liz Larner 'A hard line to bend' next time you are in Camden Art Centre and take home a piece of the exhibition 📖

🛒 £2 in our Shop
📝 Essay by
🖨️ Printed by

Look what's back in session 👀  Join our 2026-2027 Youth Collective! Transformative Futures is Camden Art Centre's free w...
23/09/2026

Look what's back in session 👀

Join our 2026-2027 Youth Collective!

Transformative Futures is Camden Art Centre's free weekly collective for young people (15-25) to discuss, explore and create art together.

Alongside the regular studio sessions led by contemporary artists, this year we are collaborating with Ceci Nest Pas London on a series of photography walks around North London led by artists Sana Badri, Alisa Oleva and Adam Wiseman.

📆 Saturdays, from 10 October
🕖 2.30-4.30pm
🎟️ Free
🔗 Book via link in bio

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