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.
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, books
05/06/2026
"Locke’s layering of media did more than expand the technical vocabulary of ceramics; it destabilised form itself and set it in motion." - Hattie Spires in File Note 160.
These works are currently on show in Donald Locke, 'Resistant Forms' at Camden Art Centre. Visit us to see them in person.
👋 We’re open: Wed-Sun, 11-6pm
📘 File Note 160: Donald Locke, with an essay by Hattie Spires is £2 in our Shop
📸 Rob Harris
"For me it was about the whole thing as an object, the materiality of it. I really wanted to abstract it..."
Step inside Ain Bailey's 'Untitled: Our Wedding', on display in the Reading Room at Camden Art Centre.
👋 We’re open: Wed-Sun, 11-6pm
📆 Closing soon, visit the exhibition before 14 June
📺 Watch the full film here: https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/artist-film-ain-bailey
📹 Shot by Patrick Young
Look what's dropped in our shop 👀
Spice up your summer wardrobe with your Camden Art Centre tote, now available in two new colours!
Will you pick up burgundy and pink, or navy and lilac? Our coloured totes are printed on a limited run, so once they are gone, they are gone 🛍️
£15 per bag
🛒 Online and in-store
👜 Our tote bags are made of 100% organic cotton, with sturdy handles made from cotton off-cuts and a reinforced base. Inside you can find a mobile phone pocket, hanging pocket and stitch key loop.
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27/05/2026
Life Drawing is back at Camden Art Centre this Summer ✏️
Whether you are a complete beginner, want to brush up on your techniques or are looking for a quiet space to create a new body of work, you will find a new way to draw over this 6-week course. Led by Orly Orbach.
📆 Thursdays, 18 Jun-23 Jul
🕖 6.30-8.30pm
🎟️ £249/£299
🔗 Book your tickets via the link in our bio
26/05/2026
"A wedding photo album transmorphs into a video '(Untitled: Our Wedding)' (2022), where a note, a chord stammers and repeats and opens a portal into an intergenerational discovery and embrace of the felt but unknown worlds that are the sites/scenes of our individual and collective emergence". - Gail Lewis for File Note 159: Ain Bailey.
Pick up a copy of the File Note that accompanies our current exhibition 'The Jamaica Project' by Ain Bailey next time you are in Camden Art Centre 📘
🛒 £2 in our Shop
📝 Essay by Gail Lewis
🖨️ Printed by
📸 Rob Harris
24/05/2026
Shop Ain Bailey's Artist Edition 🛒
This image captures the moment at which artist Ain Bailey arrives at the road where her mother’s family once lived in Kingston, Jamaica. The journey to this site during her first ever trip to the island is the subject of her new work presented in the exhibition: 5C Jacques Road: Part One (2026).
'JACQUES ROAD', 2026
Gloss photograph
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered certificate
Standard Price £150
Patron’s Price £135
Step inside 'Resistant Forms', London’s first comprehensive survey of Guyanese-British ceramicist, painter and sculptor Donald Locke.
We’re open 👋
Wed-Sun, 11-6pm
🔗 Learn more about the work and exhibition with our full Artist Film and the exhibition’s accompanying File Note essay.
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🏛️ This exhibition is the final presentation of 'Resistant Forms', following iterations at Spike Island, Bristol, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in 2025.
'Resistant Forms' is generously supported by Alison Jacques, the Ampersand Foundation, the Estate of Donald Locke, Henry Moore Foundation and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. The exhibition at Camden Art Centre has been generously supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at the Prism Charitable Trust.
22/05/2026
'Resonances' brings together Christine Kirubi, Gail Lewis, and Elle Reynolds in response to Ain Bailey’s exhibition 'The Jamaica Project' at Camden Art Centre.
Through conversation, listening and reflection, the event explores expanded approaches to interpretation and collective exchange.
📆 Sun 14 June
🕖 4-6pm
🎟️ £4/5
🔗 Booking via link in bio
21/05/2026
We are pleased to announce our 2025-26 Active Member status with 🌱
To achieve Active status we had to demonstrate that our organisation had implemented environmentally responsible best practice in line with GCC guidance.
Active Membership is not a certification of sustainability nor a claim that we are doing things perfectly. We’re all doing our best to assess, report and reduce our impact, setting targets in line with science, taking any actions we can and working out other solutions as we go.
🔎 Visit the page or website to learn more about the initiative and how to get involved
20/05/2026
A pioneer of performance and media art, Camden Art Centre were saddened to hear last week of the death of VALIE EXPORT (1940-2026).
In 2004, Camden Art Centre presented the first major survey exhibition in the UK of this groundbreaking and influential Austrian artist.
VALIE EXPORT came to prominence with performative works which confronted the objectification of women’s bodies in society and established her reputation as a leading feminist artist, exerting a considerable influence on a subsequent generation of artists.
The exhibition brought together works by VALIE EXPORT from 1967 to the early 2000s, representing the main elements of her diverse practice, including drawings, performances, conceptual photographs, Expanded Cinema, videos and installations.
In conjunction with the exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, the installation The Power of Speech (2002) was shown at our neighbours the and a season of film screenings curated by Mark Webber was hosted by . The exhibition later toured to the Centre national de la photographie, Paris.
The exhibition was curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Juan Vicente Aliaga and was supported by , and .