”The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day.” Lewis Carroll

Katalin Haász and Gabor Gyorfi, despite their obvious differing artistic expressions, share a similar core background rooted in their long-standing friendship and almost identical education path. They attended the same classes or groups at three different art schools: they joined the same drawing course at the age of 12, they attended the same class in an Arts College (Secondary) and the same year group at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.

Their graduation exams and the so called “regime change” — the birth of the short-lived Hungarian democracy — happened on the same day, 16th of June, 1989. This newfound freedom and sense of possibility fostered a period of experimentation within the art university undergoing its own transformation. Their teacher, Dóra Maurer, further encouraged them to explore their ideas across various mediums.

This excitement and hope of being on the cusp of a new era were accompanied by the contrasting experience that everything and anything — including artistic expression — was increasingly becoming a commodity. With the perspective of the last 35 years, it is evident that the "JAM TOMORROW" mentality — promising delayed gratification — continues to hold influence despite many recognising it as an illusion. This mindset is not just part of political propaganda but deeply rooted in human nature, more akin to a natural force, such as gravity.

Katalin Haász lives in Budapest and her artistic focus delves into the metaphorical perception and depiction of space-time relationships, along with the abstract representation of determinism.

Gabor Gyorfi currently resides in London, where his art uses thought-provoking political quotes juxtaposed with illustrations. These capture the melancholic resignation of the average person burdened by the consequences of a chaotic, almost surrealistic world around.

Artists:

- Gabor Gyorfi
- Katalin Haász

EXHIBITION Information

27th March - 6th April 2024

Painting Exhibition

Open 11am - 6pm

SPACE and Arlington, owned by One Housing, part of Riverside, formed a partnership in 2010 providing twelve visual artists’ studios, plus a creative workshop programme for residents of Arlington and other homeless schemes in Camden.

Aside from the social and therapeutic benefits, what comes out of these workshops is artwork of a high quality and the opportunity for residents to progress onto further education and work in the arts.

Each year The Creative Space produces an exhibition showcasing the work they have produced in art, textiles, writing / magazine, music, photography, graffiti workshops. This year the Creative Space expanded into seven other supported accommodation and community centres owned by One Housing/Riverside

For the second year we have collaborated with the Illustrated Ape working together to produce an Arlington edition of the cult magazine.

The exhibition will include an open studio for SPACE artists who have art studios at Arlington.

EXHIBITION Information

28th February - 2nd March 2024

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours:
- 28th February 11am - 4pm
- 29th February, 1st & 2nd March, open 11am - 6pm

In collaboration with MyMicro Gallery.
Curated by Stefania Carrozzini.

Camden Image Gallery, in collaboration with MyMicroGallery is delighted  to announce, “THE HEALING GAZE” an exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini, composed of six artists: Sandra Cardona, Elizabeth Crawford, Frances Clarke, Roni Doppelt, Paul Zawadzki, Toni Andrea Zelter.

In this exhibition, the artists offer different visual approaches to personal emotional experiences translated into their own distinctive expressive language between digital and painting.

"Looking at something is very different from seeing it,  you don't see   something until you see its beauty” Oscar Wilde wrote, and we have no doubt that the beauty could create wellness, harmony, peace and connection with our deeply soul.

"The Healing of the Gaze in Art" implies the therapeutic and transformative potential of visual experiences. It suggests that engaging with art can serve as a healing process, offering emotional, spiritual, or psychological nourishment through the act of perceiving and contemplating visual expressions.

 Art can harness the healing power within each of us and help bring us into community with one another. When in front of an artwork, we are connected to the artist and to others who have experienced it. And connection, to ourselves and others, is at the core of art and healing.

This exhibition is an invite to  everyone to pay attention  all around us. Contemporary art , like contemporary life, is now fast-moving landscape, to which artists refer to and sometimes even making simple eye contact with today's art can be tough. The Healing Gaze is a concept that often refers to the idea that compassionate interactions, including eye contact can contribute to emotional well-being and physically healing. It emphasizes the therapeutic potential of human connection. In art, the concept of the Healing Gaze may manifest through visual representations that evoke emotions, convey empathy, or offer a sense of comfort. Art has the power to communicate and evoke feelings, potentially contributing to a healing experience for viewers. This could include depictions of compassion, understanding, or scenes that resonate with personal or collective healing narratives.

Artists:

- Sandra Cardona
- Frances Clarke
- Lizzie Crawford
- Roni Doppelt
- Paul Zawadzki
- Toni Andrea Zelter

EXHIBITION Information

31st January - 11th February 2024

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

This exhibition explores pets and their owners and will display 18 monochrome A3 portraits created with black charcoal pencil.

“These pets hold a special place in my heart. They are important figures in my life, as I have formed a close bond with them throughout the years. The majority of these pets are owned by my closest friends and family members. A few others however are local neighbourhood strays that I have petted and again bonded with my whole life.”

Artist:

- Olga Oganesian

EXHIBITION Information

16th - 18th January 2024

Illustration Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

In 'Sarsens,' Joe Barrow's debut solo exhibition, he unveils a captivating collection of paintings that trace his artistic evolution since graduating from the Art Academy London in 2022.

The exhibition derives its name from the age-old monolithic stones that linger across the British Isles, 

Each sarsen is a stand alone anomaly, alien in the landscape in which it sits yet curiously conversant to its neighbour. Like the act of painting where strokes on the canvas amass to create a story, when viewed together they form a path and depict a passage of thought. Seen alone they are a curiosity, an investigation. 

Joe's artistic process is a subconscious dance between intention and intuition. An automatic painting which begins with instinctual random gestural mark-making is guided through chaos in a journey of addition and removal. Images rise and evoke shared emotions and experiences. Evolving forms and narratives emerge, weaving mythobiographical landscapes with familiar conversations. 

In this collection, Joe's work has transitioned from modest sketchbook scribbles to large-scale oil paintings while retaining his distinctive mark-making, now aged and fortified.

Beyond the canvas, Joe shares his passion for art through teaching at the Art Stables in Finchley and running a weekly art class at the St Pancras Community Centre in Camden, nurturing creativity in others.

Artist:

- Joe Barrow

EXHIBITION Information

6th - 9th December 2023

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Camden Image Gallery, in collaboration with MyMicroGallery is delighted  to announce, "Evidence and Essence" an exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini, composed of two abstract American artists. Each artist presents seven paintings of which three are executed collaboratively. The concept of "Evidence and Essence" explores the interplay between observable evidence and the underlying essence or core of the subject. It delves into how external appearances and tangible proof intersect with the intangible qualities and fundamental nature of things, inviting contemplation on the deeper layers of reality and meaning. 

In painting, "evidence" refers to the visual elements and techniques , this includes the use of color, composition, brushwork. On the other hand, "Essence" it's the idea and it goes beyond the surface appearance and gets to the heart of what the artist wants to convey.

Patrick Dennis and Kenneth Walker engaging visual experience in which emotions striking a balance between evidence and essence and the creative freedom of abstract language allows this process to be best expressed. 

The works in this exhibition demonstrate a particular attention to nature and space, between what we can see and what is invisible to the eye. Both artists are inspired by nature and through nature they want to reach a sense of the painting process produces a specific meaning, extending its narrative and formal potential. 

Their works bring into dialogue a new way of seeing by connecting us to other dimensions, crossing spaces, borders and emotional geographies. In both of the artist's works, the material of painting between densifications and rarefactions, flashes of light and shadow areas manifesting  a need for visual silence, search for harmony with what surrounds us expressing all this through language of painting. 

Artists:

- Patrick Dennis
- Kenneth Walker

EXHIBITION Information

8th - 18th November 2023

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

When we think about landscapes, we always imagine vast and large spaces, but the reality is, that they tend to be more intimate than what we might think at first sight as we all relate in very personal and different ways to landscape.

Artists:

- Marina Chichi
- Jessica Dunn
- John Heywood-Waddington
- Renos Ioannides
- Paul Kingsley Squire
- Agnieszka Laskus
- Ann Palmer
- Milo Robinson
- Jason Shenai
- Karen Topp

EXHIBITION Information

12th - 23rd September 2023

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Human life is incomplete without emotions, which are often associated with specific moments, individuals, objects, or locations. Emotions play a crucial role in our psyche and physique, signaling us about what is safe and what is not. The "Reflections" exhibition is a showcase of two artists who have intertwined their past experiences and fresh memories, providing a unique perspective into their world.

The exhibition features the work of two artists, each with their own distinct style and approach. Tiina works quite intuitively and her vividly coloured paintings have narrative quality to them. The paintings have often female protagonist on them who is consumed deeply in their own world and to their momentary experience. Her work is intimate, drawing ideas from art history, female experience, music, films and books etc, that is then blended with imagination. The paintings are emotionally charged and dreamlike that have cinematic effect, creating melancholic and moody landscapes.

On the other hand, Elena takes a different approach with her abstract work, using bold colors and geometrical forms to invite the viewer to explore their own emotions and experiences. Elena's art is a reflection of her journey as a multiple-time immigrant, seeking to understand the complex emotions that have shaped her recent life. Elena  applies her exploratory design approach to the "painting" process, where art and architectural influences are apparent: form, shadow, and light are important concerns in her practice. Although her  background in fashion and interior  design has a direct connection to her work, it is not necessarily influenced by any specific movements or buildings. Her new project  'Shelter '22', embraces differently shaped sculptural wall pieces  which represent buildings in planar projection and  are coated in a range of specially coloured sand.

Both artists believe that emotions are deeply rooted in our experiences and memories. By exploring these emotions through their art, they gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them. The "Reflections" exhibition is a powerful reminder of the link between emotions and experience. Their work is a testament to the transformative power of art, helping us make sense of the world around us and transform our lives.

Artists:

- Tiina Tuovinen
- Elena Shuppo

EXHIBITION Information

5th - 8th July 2023

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

"Perceptions" - Camden Image Gallery exhibition showcasing 4 different and unique artists

Life is all about how our minds and bodies interpret the sense data that the surrounding environment throws at us. Be it internal or external experiences - life is the source of inspiration that brought five artists together to showcase their uncommon visions.

Whether we are scientists, artists, or simply hedonists, all of us have an individual lens through which we see life - we can choose to see the good, the bad, or we can choose to see the good in the bad. 

 In a variety of styles, techniques, and colour palettes, "Perceptions" aims to convey a hidden essence that plays a special role in interpreting life. Our purpose is to reach a larger audience that would happily consume and embrace our artist visions as part of their own reality, adding more layers of meaning to their own lives.

Artists:

- Gina Teslaru https://www.instagram.com/ginateslaru.art/

- Toby Brown https://www.instagram.com/tobybrown_artist/

- Dave Nevard 
https://www.instagram.com/nev.ard/

- Mark Whittaker 

EXHIBITION Information

6th - 10th June 2023

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Thomas Girtin

The Forgotten Painter

By Oscar Zarate

Exhibition 2nd and 3rd June 2023

Evening reception and book launch: Friday 2nd June, 6pm–8pm

Please join us for the launch of Oscar Zarate’s new graphic novel and two-day exhibition of original drawings from Thomas Girtin: The Forgotten Painter, published by SelfMadeHero.

This is the untold story of J.M.W. Turner’s friend and greatest rival, pioneering watercolour artist Thomas Girtin.

Part historical narrative, part modern fiction, the book consists of two interlinked stories: the first focuses on the 18th-century painter Thomas Girtin and his relationship with his friend and rival J.M.W. Turner; the second tells the tale of three amateur artists in the present day, united by a shared interest in Girtin’s art. Using this dual narrative to draw parallels between two eras of rapid technological advancement and socio-political turbulence, Oscar Zarate’s long-awaited new graphic novel restores to modern eyes this unjustly forgotten figure, whose work has been almost entirely ignored despite his huge influence in British painting. At the time of death, aged just 27, Girtin had already established himself as a pioneer and a master: his expressionist approach was a significant turning point in the British watercolour tradition. But the brevity of his career, coupled with his chosen medium (compared to oils, watercolours were a humbler and less easily exhibited form) meant that his work came to be overshadowed by that of Turner. As Turner himself famously remarked, “If Tom had lived, I should have starved.”

Oscar Zarate is an award-winning graphic novelist. His books include collaborations with Alan Moore (A Small Killing) and Alexei Sayle (Geoffrey the Tube Train and the Fat Comedian). He was the editor of It's Dark in London, and he wrote and illustrated The Park. He collaborated with Richard Appignanesi on Dr Faustus, Hysteria, Introducing Freud and Introducing Existentialism. Born in Argentina, it was over 50 years ago that Oscar decided to visit London, where he has lived and worked ever since.

Artist:
- Oscar Zarate

EXHIBITION Information

2nd & 3rd June 2023, open 11am - 6pm

Evening reception and book launch: Friday 2nd June, 6pm–8pm

Camden Image Gallery is pleased to announce ‘Identity‘, a mixed media exhibition on the theme of Portraits and Figures.

Artists:

- Joe Barrow
- Variety Brown
- Theodore Calliste
- Asli Canpolat
- Mara
- Sophie Rose
- Raher Saber
- Brigitta Scholz Mastroianni
- Latifah Stranack
- Caroline Tropicalbird

EXHIBITION Information

16th - 27th May 2023

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

VANDALKIDS teams up with artist Clare Elliot who designed 1111 hand drawn heads, each with a unique expression, released as a NFT collection called FEELERHEAD.

FEELERHEAD, born from a personal journey, was created by artist Clare Elliott and Genius Web3 ecosystem & protocol builder David Atkinson. It brings together art, technology and self-expression and aims to:

Planet Feelerhead: interactive family event

Vandalkids streetwear and Feelerhead's artist present a cutting-edge experience to explore emotions through art, fashion, and theatre.

"We designed this event for families with kids aged circa 5-10 to enjoy a meaningful journey discovering a new mindful way to shop brands with purpose and invest in the future of art."

 What to expect: a unique experience allowing kids to explore a magical universe of self-expression through 3 rooms:

- IMMERSIVE ROOM for kids to explore their feelings through all senses (expect textures, lights, colours, music, games, challenges, dancing, meditation etc.)- - CRAFT ROOM for kids to create their own expressive Emoji to take home, via collage and drawing (All material provided
- WORKSHOP ROOM for kids to choose their favourite Vandalkids clothes and the Feelerhead emoji they would like to customise it with and see it come to life in front of them.

VANDALKIDS is a new brand of kidswear born in Camden, offering high quality, practical and comfortable gear for children aged 3 to teens, with prints inspired by art.

Created by ex-brand director and mother Kat Vandal, VANDALKIDS has been designed to encourage kids' creativity and self-expression whilst incorporating parent-friendly features to help the clothes last and reduce their impact on the planet.

Learn more and shop here: https://www.vandalkidswear.com

For its next capsule collection, VANDALKIDS teams up with artist Clare Elliot who designed 1111 hand drawn heads, each with a unique expression, released as a NFT collection called FEELERHEAD.

FEELERHEAD, born from a personal journey, was created by artist Clare Elliott and Genius Web3 ecosystem & protocol builder David Atkinson. It brings together art, technology, and self-expression.

Note from Clare Elliot:

"I was always taken with the fact that the Inuit have more than fifty words for snow.

Yet for us we have so few words to describe such nuanced and complex ideas like

emotions... I was always terrible at dealing with my emotions.

I'd just let them build inside me and they'd come out at unexpected times.

So one day I started drawing circles on a page, quite meditatively, over and over...

Each slightly different. 2 dots for eyes, and a gaping mouth on each one.

Simple lines. Complex emotions. Yet I noticed how different the expressions were,

easily shifting from comic to tragic.

Somehow the exercise helped make light of what was inside me."

Learn more here: https://www.feelerhead.xyz

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EXHIBITION Information

Saturday 18th March

10:30am - 5pm

 To celebrate International Women’s Day, Penny Burdett is exhibiting her distinctive style of Art Knit, at the Camden Image Gallery, 174 Royal College Street, Camden, NW1 0SP, from 8th– 11thMarch.
Opening Reception: Wednesday 8th March 6-8pm.

Having trained as a Graphic Designer/Animator, Penny has a very different take on what most people expect Knitting to be, and is inspired by whatever catches her eye. Her love of combining photographic images, typography, geometric and organic patterns marks out her work.

Her special 'one-off' pieces, including her 'ArtKnit' dresses and her vivid range of 'ArtKnit' cushions will be on display. The show will also feature her unique Art Installation piece ‘Wrap The Lock’ made in 2014, and her book celebrating her work ‘30Years in the Making’ published in 2016.

Penny started her business trading from a stall in the East Yard, Camden Lock in November 1986.​ From that small beginning, her work sells worldwide to customers who appreciate the 'one-off' and unique, hand-made quality of her designs. She also initiated the first Camden Lock Fashion Shows in 2003-06 and as an artist/designer/maker of many years standing, Penny was selected to be on the Crafts Council Directory in 2017. 

Artist:

- Penny Burdett
www.pennyburdett.co.uk

EXHIBITION Information

8th - 11th March 2023

Knitwear Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Camden Image Gallery is pleased to announce a mixed media exhibition on the theme of Nostalgia.

What makes us happy? What makes us feel warm? In this exhibition we will be exploring how nostalgia is created and its effects on us, both its creators and its viewers.

Artists:

- Andreea Andrei
- Rina Bakis
- Lorraine Benton
- Asli Canpolat
- Tere Chad
- Kate Esdaile
- Gabor Gyorfi
- Mara
- Lilly Meikle
- Joanne Nicolaou
- Ann Palmer
- Punam Singh

EXHIBITION Information

7th - 18th February 2023

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Camden Image Gallery is pleased to announce, “Flower Obsessions”, previously presented in Milan at MyMicroGallery and in Venice at Stefania Carrozzini Gallery,  a group exhibition composed of ten artists of different nationalities and expressive means including photography, painting, installation and collage . There are various approaches to the theme, but all the artists place the observers in a physical and mental space where they can experience visual regeneration through the floral imagery.

It is almost impossible to imagine a time when the grace, beauty, charm and delicacy of flowers did not seduce us. We turn to them all our lives and, on several occasions, they are our companions in joy and sorrow.

 There is no such clear sign of renewal, rebirth and awakening. Although bright, the flowers fade quickly and are therefore a symbol of ephemeral beauty, of the transience of existence. Flowers are also a symbol of strength and lightness: let's think of their strong roots that invade even the most inhospitable terrain, rocky terrain, along highways or on asphalt.

The flower is a natural mandala and symbolically represents the wheel and the eternal movement of the cosmos that guides everything. The hermaphroditic nature of flowers is a symbol of the union of opposites in the process of self-realization. And this symbolic force has always fascinated artists who have often made it the subject of their works. Over time, from a simple detail the flower becomes the absolute protagonist starting with the painter Hans Memling up to its consecration with Caravaggio.

In this way the natural theme is placed on the same level as the human one, of the great stories of the Gods or of the Saints. The flower and what is connected to this world is no longer a simple decoration, an elegant means to enrich a work, now it becomes a real theme, noteworthy, worthy of representation and no longer plays a marginal role as in past.

The advent of photography has played an important role in the representation of flowers from the past to the present day, where artists, using advanced techniques and increasingly sophisticated tools, explore the floral world in a total way, giving body to a true obsession. Flowers explode, implode through all expressive languages, from video art to installation and sculpture. The photographic medium fixes the transience of flowers over time. Their beauty remains, even in the apparent narrative cliché, the fulcrum of the privileged communication between man and nature.

Artists:

- Gabrielle Bill
- Corrado Bonomi
- Felipe Cardena
- Stefania Carrozzini
- Sarah Garside
- Susan Lizotte
- Mala Says
- Marion Schmidtke
- Anne Van Leeuwen
- Lihong Zhang 

EXHIBITION Information

10th - 19th November 2022

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

The Imaginarium postcard project was created and set up by artist, writer and art historian Salma Ahmad Caller in 2018 to investigate the archive of colonial 19th century images of women on postcards from the Middle East and North Africa whilst also exploring her mixed Egyptian and British identity. The project has grown into a collective of artists and researchers working together to decolonise the colonial lens who are researching their own personal family histories across 'east' and 'west' and making connections and relationships to the Postcard Women from these regions. 

As a group they aim to create cross-cultural dialogue and to combat misinformation and racial stereotyping that such images perpetuate, by bringing cultural heritage and personal stories to the fore. 

Six members of the collective - living with cultural connections and cross-cultural dualities resulting from colonial and political aftermaths from Egypt/UK, Iran/UK, Libya/US, Tunisia/France, Spain/Morocco, and Algeria/UK/France -  Salma Ahmad Caller, Afsoon, Hala Ghellali, Alia Derouiche Cherif, CritTeam duo Eugenia Lopez Reus & Miguel Jaime and Hamida Zourgui - will be showing work in a multi-media exhibition incorporating photography, projection, sound, installation, painting, collage, heritage material, colonial postcards and community responses at the Camden Image gallery from September 22nd - October 4th 2022. Supported by Arts Council England. 

The exhibition will present a multiplicity of possible interpretations in relation to the Postcard Women's images, reclaiming them from colonial, patriarchal and Orientalist imaginariums, and creating new imaginariums to generate potential and unexplored histories and to shine light on hidden meanings and stories obscured by the colonial lens. 

The Postcard Women's bodies are 'captured' frozen in an unchanging mediated medium where they have been misrepresented, mislabelled and objectified. Their bodies shown having to hold positions they would never have held, clutching water vessels or other cultural objects cast as Orientalist and colonial 'props', and forced to gaze provocatively or mysteriously, or be shown naked. Their body adornments - jewellery, textiles, patterns, body markings - were used to display the women as 'exotic' 'erotic' 'primitive' and 'tribal' without contextualisation or understanding, brutishly framed to fit within racial hierarchies created to serve European colonial aspirations.

These water vessels, jewels and clothes all carry deeply within them cultural histories of women, specific knowledges and ways of being that would have been handed down to each woman from her female ancestors. Vessels of identity and selfhood. In this exhibition each artist will be reframing these 'props' as living cultural heritage embedded in personal and political spaces women still occupy and deal with today. 

'We are the Postcard Women who stand against violence and believe in creating meaningful futures for women, and in bringing to life the lineages and knowledge of our maternal ancestors, drawing on our cultural stories as foundations for finding new ways of being in the world.'  Salma Ahmad Caller 

Artists:

- Salma Ahmad Caller:
https://www.salmaahmadcaller.com/
Instagram: @salmacaller @Imaginarium_postcardproject 
https://tinyurl.com/Postcard-Imaginarium

- Afsoon:
https://afsoon.co.uk/
https://instagram.com/afsoonafsoonagain?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

- Alia Derouiche Cherif: 
https://www.instagram.com/aliaderouiche/?hl=fr
https://site-7322516-7026-6102.mystrikingly.com/?fbclid=IwAR22JS1Xo92TnNKYFYYgrCuIDXjS1rcO0w2KrVMTdgKrpm1fF59SuO6iBrY

- CritTeam (Eugenia Lopez Reus & Miguel Jaime):
https://www.critteamart.com/
https://instagram.com/critteam?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

- Hamida Zourgui: 
https://instagram.com/hamida_fromspace?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

- Hala Ghellali:
https://instagram.com/lamemoirequiflanche?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

EXHIBITION Information

22nd September - 4th October 2022

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

About the Artist

SMF is an emerging artist from East London, exploring the intersections of race and gender through art. Her recent works can be described as an emotional catharsis, exploring the multidimensional cultural issues that impact black women. SMF amalgamates postcolonial theory from her BA and MA English degrees, with abstract and realist forms to explore and debunk damaging stereotypes. She also creates art using various mediums, including oil paint, acrylic paint, photography, nail art and written word. Key influences include Octavia Butler and Patricia Hill Collins. 

Though an emerging artist, SMF has had various nail artwork featured in high-profile publications such as British GQ and Wonderland magazine.

About the Exhibition:

"In the beginning, there was energy." - SMF

Genesis explores emotion (energy in motion) and is the artist's most introspective work yet. The collection provides an up-close and very personal look at her own emotional journey over the past two years.  At large, the collection confronts the myth of 'the strong black woman' and opens the floor to discussions about mental wellbeing within the diaspora. 

In terms of the materials used, Genesis was inspired by the art of luxury watchmaking and is created for those with a true appreciation for detailed craftsmanship, and innovation in collectible fine art. Each painting is adorned with 24ct Italian gold leaf and genuine sand from Jamaica's pristine 7-mile Negril beach, showcasing the earth's natural luxuries while elegantly weaving in SMF's Jamaican heritage.

Artist:
- SMF

Website: www.smftheartist.com

Instagram: @smf.artistry

EXHIBITION Information

20th October 2022

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm

Gabriella Anouk

Gabriella Anouk is an exciting contemporary artist creating hyperrealist art with a disruptive twist.  She has an international profile with collectors in New York, Florida, Paris, London and Dubai. 

After many years of drawing commissions and working in different media and methodologies, Gabriella developed her expressive Slime Series during 2021.  She uses pencil techniques, which require hundreds of hours of dedicated time to complete each piece. 

Over the past couple of years Gabriella also explored and developed her creativity across a number of digital platforms and is hugely influential and inspirational introducing many of her social media followers to art for the first time, whilst sharing her art practice and the development of her Slime Series. 

Gabriella is inspired by surrealist artist Salvador Dali.  She particularly loves Dali’s ‘nuclear-mysticism’ phase, assimilating scientific knowledge and mysticism, his technical skill, precise craftsmanship and the striking and bizarre images in his work bordering on absurdism.

#SlimeSeries

Gabriella’s Slime Series was inspired by the fruit and vegetables she had at home during the 2021 Covid-19 Lockdowns.  However, she didn’t just want to draw a classic realistic still life, she wanted to explore ways to enhance, disrupt and uncover the sensuality in everyday objects.  She tried dipping a leaf in paint but this wasn’t flexible enough as once dipped there was no way of changing or manipulating it.  She remembered her younger sister playing with Slime and thought that Slime could be the flexible medium she was seeking.  She experimented by creating her own Slime and found it to be perfect for her process.  She starts by creating a 3-dimensional sculpture using a real object and Slime, which she then draws in intricate detail. 

The Slime Series consists of 7 original works: Avocado Dali, Aubergine Fetish, Peachy, Dragonfruit Heart, Artichoke Pink, Banana Blue and Pomegranate Amour.   The Series also includes Fine Art Editions and NFTs.

Artist:

- Gabriella Anouk
www.gabriellaanouk.com

Instagram: @gabriellaanouk
TikTok: @gabriellaanouk
Twitter: @gabriellaanouk

EXHIBITION Information

15th - 18th September 2022

Mixed Media Exhibition

Focussing heavily on the process of materials and their ability to change, Sophie presents a body of work which explores the notion of transience; viewing herself as a manipulative tool.

Whether it be in the form of drawing, printmaking or metalwork, Sophie emphasises the importance of process within materialistic lifespan. Materials are constantly subject to change, and the artist acts as the catalyst for this.

“She has said of her own work that it is the methods and materials that produce the ideas, not the other way round.” -  British Arts Council on artist Gillian Lowndes.

Metal has the ability to be manipulated by natural processes so heavily reinforces our mutual connection, as nature is a driving force in artistic process and human experience. The metal and human experiences overlap, they are both products of nature with different forms of expression.

Materials have the ability to construct artwork, not just the artist and their body. Sophie’s practice draws attention to their creative expression combined with her own in order to produce works which beautifully represent their nature.

Artist:
- Sophie Bettison

EXHIBITION Information

14th - 17th June 2022

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

I am a contemporary abstract imaginary artist but most of all I am a humanitarian. I serve people reaching to their inner side and bring to the surface what's the best of them turning into colours on canvas.

And so what's the best of you?
It's not your carrier, place you live, level you reached.
it is the real You, hidden from anyone, darkest and sometimes not recognised yet.

Whatever it is, whatever darkness you represent it's all beautiful and worth to give it a go.

Let's all shine.

That's my mission. 

Artist:
- Karina Zajac
www.karinazajac.com

EXHIBITION Information

21st - 26th April 2022

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

Zones of Immaterial Sensitivity are mental places that creativity makes its own, placing "feeling" as a privileged contemplative moment in order to accommodate other dimensions that escape a distracted eye.

This exhibition aims to make us reflect on the present time of creativity that finds a body where we least expect it: everything can be a source of inspiration if we listen to it. Living in the areas of immaterial sensitivity means living connected with the present and with our inner source.

Artists:

- Murielle Bonniec 
https://muriellebonniec.wordpress.com

- Eva Breitfuss
http://evabreitfuss.space

- Stefania Carrozzini 
https://www.stefaniacarrozzini.com

- Chou Chih-Yi 
https://www.ccyartwork.com/

- Muriel Desbieys 
http://muriel-desbieys.artmajeur.com/

- Kazuhiko Kan
www.cankazuhiko.com

- Reimut Rudiger Voigt
https://galeriebdmc.wixsite.com/bdmc/reimut-rudiger-voigt

- Marion Schmidtke 
www.marionschmidtke.de

- Evgeniya Zolotareva
https://www.evgeniabstractart.com/

EXHIBITION Information

25th March - 5th April 2022

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

Camden Image Gallery is pleased to announce we will be arranging an exhibition on the theme of Portraits and Figures.

All genres of art welcome; painting, photography sculpture, video, illustration, installations etc.

£450 for 2M space in the large room
or
£350 for 2M space in the smaller room (This room works well for smaller, intimate pieces as well as installations, projectors and screens).

All work will be single hung unless the work is a diptych that must be hung one above the other.

Services that the gallery will provide are:
- Private tours of the gallery space by appointment for those who are new to Camden Image Gallery
- Full hanging service by gallery staff
- Drinks reception with refreshments provided by the gallery
- A fully invigilated exhibition
- Promotion of artwork on gallery website and social media sites.

Important dates:
Friday 12th May: Delivery of artwork
Monday 15th May: Installation day
Tuesday 16th - Saturday 27th May: Exhibition dates
Wednesday 17th May: Drinks reception 6pm - 8pm
Sunday 28th May: Take down and collection of artwork

Please email Elena Chimonas with examples of your work that you’d like to include in the exhibition along with a link to your website: elena@camden-image-gallery.co.uk

EXHIBITION Information

16th - 27th May 2023

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

Embellishment can transform a functional object into something ceremonial or ritualistic. The embellishment often carries symbolic importance, expressed through shapes and colours.

“I feel that aprons, masks and gloves have recently taken on a fearful aspect through association  with the pandemic. In this series I have tried to reclaim some of the visual interest and enjoyment that they can provide for the viewer.”

Cherry Taylor

Artist:
- Cherry Taylor

www.cherrytaylor.co.uk

EXHIBITION Information

15th - 20th March 2022

Textile Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

IN THE MIX 2022 - Fifteen Artists from The Noble Sage Art Collection

Twenty-two artworks by fifteen diverse artists from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the UK will be on display at Camden Image Gallery in February. 

For sixteen years The Noble Sage Art Collection has worked in north London to provide a stage for the very best in South Asian modern and contemporary art. This iteration of IN THE MIX, a popular annual show in London, will be special as it will include a few UK artists that the gallery has taken under its wing. Talented artists such as classical master painter, Anthony Christian, who spent many years in India himself, the late Dante Elsner, a Polish Holocaust survivor artist that turned to Eastern mysticism, and S. Murugiah, a Sri Lankan artist living in London and creating outstanding art that is surreal, joyful and loud. 

For an invitation to the Grand Opening and Private View on the 22nd Feb, or else to attend one of the daily directorial tours or see the works in the exhibition online, click this link: www.linktr.ee/thenoblesage

Artists:
- Arpita Singh
- Gogi Saroj Pal
- Anthony Christian
- Dante Elsner
- Anoma
- P. Gopinath
- T. Athiveerapandian
- Frances Ferdinands
- P. Jayakani
- Jagath Ravindra
- Mahavir Verma
- Shanti Panchal
- Murugiah

EXHIBITION Information

22nd - 27th February 2022

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

Foz’s artworks are concerned with seeing the beauty in the everyday. Beit through the agencies of domestic objects, experiences, conversations, family photograph or discarded toys, Foz uses his personal ephemera to produce complex drawn narratives of lived experience, mental anxiety, depression, love and joy.

The exhibition, ‘Home Front: Kaleidoscope of the Mundane,’ brings together a series of 14 6ft x 3ft, paintings in mixed media on moon paper. Each painting offers kaleidoscopic interruptions as ‘battle landscapes’, of how we process the daily bombardment of information, imagery, objects, sounds, language, and relationships. As we know, happy experiences collide with tragedy, humour, stress, routine, sadness, boredom, frustration, anger, jealousy etc. Life experiences aren’t discrete. Things happen together, colliding, bouncing of each other, vying for attention within our daily routines.

To learn more about the project, please follow a link to view a recent documentary film of me discussing the work.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNz8sN113OQ

www.fozfosterstudio.com
www.instagram.com/fozfosterstudio/

Artist:

- Foz Foster

EXHIBITION Information

8th - 13th February 2022

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

This Parrot Fine Art exhibition is organized to showcase young Russian contemporary artists on the international art market, an integral part of which is to share the experiences and values of Russian artists with the London audience. It is very important for us to pay special attention to the global exchange of creative approaches and styles in particular countries. 

It is devoted to the different problems that Russian artists go through and live in. What worries them today, living in Russia, despite the great opportunities to explore the international art market through networks. Each author raises different worries in his work, social issues and questions of self-identification in modern society.

Luda Rodin's works reveal the theme of contemplation. People are more and more preoccupied with their worries, work, and are endlessly rushing somewhere. How often do you notice butterflies? These are unique little creatures. Luda deliberately shows their beauty on large canvases so that for a moment we become smaller than they are. To notice them. To admire them, to stop, to think about them. 

Viola Sevostianova, exploring the development of African art during the apartheid period, embodies in her works the story of her own transformation and juxtaposition. She is close to the fate of a person going through different social problems, stretched like a red-hot nerve. Overcoming hardships, the desire to help people and to move forward swiftly.  

Masha Danilovskaia's works are an escape from the modern problems into other worlds. Into the world before and after. Masha has been working in different spheres for a long time, but she realized that painting is the only thing she really can't exist without. Masha doesn't reveal the essence of each work completely. They are very intimate stories for her, where the audience has an opportunity to put their own meanings and feelings into the painting.

Curator: Viola Sevostianova
www.parrotfineart.com
www.instagram.com/parrotfineart

Artists:
- Marusya Borisova-Sevastyanova
- Ira Mir
- The Frym
- Alisher Kushakov
- Kirill Kto
- Yulia Kerner
- Margarita Godgelf
- Viola Sevostianova
- Elizaveta Glushkova
- Dasha Maltseva
- Olya Avstreyh
- Masha Danilovskaia
- Andrey Shustalov
- Luda Foresman

EXHIBITION Information

3rd - 21st December 2021

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

Breath is the vital element par excellence, a subtle union between spirit and matter, the entity of a unique and indivisible world, the alternation between wave and undertow, between inside and outside. Breathing is a bodily fact and therefore it is from the body that we start in this exhibition: from thought and action, from the imagination of the artists who offer different visual and textual narratives of this basic activity that is proper to all human beings, to the animal and plant world. 

The word 'Respiro' (Breath), from the Latin respirare, is composed by -re, meaning repetition, and -spirare, meaning to blow. It was formulated as a learned word suitable for medical, physiological considerations. 

It then became part of the common lexicon as with all the derivatives of 'spirare' in Italian: from inspirare  to espirare, from traspirare (to transpire)  to sospirare (to sigh) .  These words thus open up wonderful figurative meanings among which those of relief and pause stand out. In the turmoil, the rhythm of the breath shortens and generates a restless mind, while in the pause the breath returns to take its time, to widen the chest, to dampen the chaos; likewise, the oppression given by anxiety and anguish speak etymologically of wheezing, of breathlessness, of a tightness that we immediately relate  to a weight on the breath: we understand how natural it is to understand the newfound breath as an authentic relief. 

Buddhists have taught us to listen to the breath, to become aware of it, as a means of awakening and maintaining full attention in order to look carefully, long and deep into the nature of all things. 

The Sanskrit word "Prana" refers to the vibrant energy of every vital manifestation that has within itself, in microcosmic form, the alternation of day and night, the magical melody of creation, the pulsating rhythm of cosmic time. Art is not only perceptive consciousness but the breath of knowledge and beauty, indispensable as air for the survival of our humanity. 

All of the wide-ranging works, which on different expressive and linguistic fronts are majestic and present, have a strong voice, are powerfully inspired and give a sense of freedom because they embrace life.

Curated by Stefania Carrozzini.

In Collaboration with MyMicro Gallery.

Artists:
- Francesco Bocola
- Rosaspina Buscarino
- Bob Catchpole
- Kentaro Chiba
- Simonetta Chierici
- Vladek Cwalinski
- Patrick Dennis
- Gro Folkan
- Grazia Gabbini
- Susi Lamarca
- Tina Leslie, 
- Derek Morris
- Maurizio Pini,
- Stefania Ranghieri
- Jacqueline Real
- Marion Schmidtke
- Yuko Shinozaki  

EXHIBITION Information

13th - 23rd November 2021

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

RIITTA NELIMARKKA: HASSUNA

Woollen reliefs, paintings and photomontages & Elise´s unmemoires, a video about the artist RN

What is HASSUNA?
HASSUNA is a little town in ancient Mesopotamia cirka 6000 BC.

The word HASSU in Finnish language means FUNNy, in a quite positive magnitude.

The entities (characters) of HASSUNA obey a slightly ontological reference of BEING what they are, no more & no less.
So, though the art works have their given names, they are gladly open for endlessely alternative titles from the phantasy of the spectators.

Curated by Stefania Carrozzini.

In Collaboration with MyMicroGallery.

Artist:
- Riitta Nelimarkka

EXHIBITION Information

21st - 31st October 2021

Photography, Wooden relief oil on canvas & Serigraphy Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

Three Women Artists.
Three Ideas.
One Exhibition.

Brought together by their combined passion for the natural world, the passing of time and the human condition; this show reflects the artists' multi - disciplinary approach and research based practice.

Artists:
- Sue Coleman
www.susie-coleman.com

- Morfydd Ransom-Hall
www.morfyddransomhall.com

- Julie Turner
www.julieturner.org

EXHIBITION Information

5th - 10th October 2021

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

THE SPACE BETWEEN THOUGHTS
3 Artists, 3 Visions. 

"Three artists, untrained and unleashed, their thoughts, feelings and experiences transformed into colours, shapes and lines , laid bare on canvas. Three artists who have embraced their passion for art,  their compulsion to paint, and who have breached the dam of years. Each has followed their own path before coming together in friendship and collaboration." 

Artists:

-Alan Yaffe
- Susie Hall 
- Kim Barsky

EXHIBITION Information

21st - 26th September 2021

Painting Exhibition

Open 11am - 6pm Daily

‘The Beautiful and the Brutal’ will be a solo exhibition.  A collection of work from a Central Saint Martin’s Alumni artist, Jennifer Mills.  

Exposing  pieces that are evocative reactions derived from responding to the beautiful and brutal business of being. The good the bad, the positive the negative, the dull the exciting, the tension the calm and the divine. The work varies in figurativeness.  These instinctive expressionist collection of paintings and works on paper, want you to keep looking,  as the interaction between mind and the art start to do si do. 

"When any art composition works as it should, it has a profound truth to it  that I find difficult to explain in words. Open humans, will sense it, whether it’s a poem, play, film, music or painting. Creativity is a vital freedom to this one human family" 

Jennifer Mills


Jennifer Mills Biography

Born in Canada to British parents, Jennifer Mills moved to London aged 3 where she has always resided and worked. She has spent her life pursuing many creative passions. At 17 she pursued full time studies in dance, but returned to her first love of painting. 

She grew up in what was sometimes a tense household environment, finding escape in film, music and looking through the art books in the bookcase, such as 'The Shock of the New'. Were she discovered Francis Bacon. Bonnard and Freud's work. She would use her Dads' box of oils to paint alone in the bedroom.

After having a child at 19 years old, a single parent after the father suffered a brain hemorrhage, she obtained a Painting and Drawing diploma part time at 'Putney School of Art' in her 20's. Following this she secured a place on a BA Fine Art course at 'Central St. Martins School of Art' deferring after 2 years for the treatment of Cervical cancer, she returned to graduate for the final year, where she trained under 'The London Group' Artist Mike Thorpe whom was an important guide and guru in her final year. 

Her life now is a balance between the art studio paractice and backstage westend theatre life. There are drastic highs and lows to this precarious city life.  

Booking link for evening reception:
https://artsvp.co/09a878?ltclid=3470e5d8-354b-418d-beee-8c530f71f0a5

Artist:
- Jennifer Mills
www.jennifer-millsartist.co.uk

EXHIBITION Information

1st - 6th September 2021

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

Art and creativity have always been in my life in one form or another, from drawing and painting to practicing film, photography and singing. I've always been fascinated by the beauty of nature, by the natural shapes and colours that plants create. I am self-taught in the techniques I use, getting at my current practice through experimentation, making mistakes and learning from that. I studied filmmaking at University, and looking back at my filming amd editing techniques I am finding similarities with my recent art practice - using intuition and embracing mistakes to discover new approaches.

I don't tend to attach any deep meaning to my art, but rather focus on the aesthetics, and I really enjoy hearing stories about what others see in my pieces.

I work with ink and watercolor, and embelish my pieces with gold ink. the contrast of the matte paints against the gold is really striking, and when the pieces are displayed they morph with every change in light in the room, almost adapting to the mood of the room.

Artist:
- Dikira

EXHIBITION Information

18th - 22nd August 2021

Illustration Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

Art has been a passion for me all my life.  One day my talent met with traditional Turkish ceramic art. After I had completed my undergraduate and master education, I had gained a rich knowledge of new techniques, materials and styles.

My art turned into symbolic stories, sometimes using motifs,graphic or improvised compositions. And I always set myself free in the style, surface, medium or size I used. I believed that every single moment and memory has its own special desire to be expressed.

 Therefore each of pieces you will see in the exhibition represents those precious moments and memories of life.

Artist:
- Aslı Canpolat

EXHIBITION Information

27th - 30th July 2021

Illustration Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

‘Finding the Light’ is a collaboration between Karen Topp and Luke Mitchell, who met in the studios of the City Lit Institute while studying colour and various approaches to figuration. The exhibition is a celebration of light, and of the ways in which it can be conveyed.

Karen's work is driven primarily by a love of luminous colour, contrast, and the various manifestations of brightness and shadow. Her work jumps freely from expressive figuration to complete abstraction. Karen was born in rural South West of France where she grew up and studied philosophy, before moving to London in search of urban noise, crowds, and light.

Luke's painting consists of abstract and representational works inspired by the physical world, patterns, shapes and movement. He is particularly interested in the properties of colour and the interactions between colours.Luke is from the South Island of Aotearoa (New Zealand), moving to London in 2003. Prior to engaging in art full time he pursued a career in banking.

Artist:
- Luke Mitchell
- Karen Topp

EXHIBITION Information

17th - 24th June 2021

Painting Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

“Did You See Or Hear Anything?” is a photographic series that attempts to promote a wider public awareness of the shocking number of violent deaths on London’s streets. 

Taking its cue from works such as Pieter Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icaruswhere death happens almost unnoticed, “Did You See Or Hear Anything” asks if we are becoming inured to the all too frequent killings on London’s streets. What goes through our minds when we walk past the increasing number of floral tributes to victims of violent death. It would seem hard not to notice the mounds of flowers and rows of candles on our pavements, but few passers-by stop to look, most hurry on by.

Some may assume the flowers are for some unfortunate casualty of a road traffic accident. We can try not to look, but some of these memorials are hard to ignore; dozens of bouquets, candles, bottles and messages. Others will be far more modest, perhaps as little as a single bouquet, and during the Covid lockdowns there might only be a tell-tale strip of police tape to mark the spot where someone died.

Tempting though it might be to insulate ourselves by assuming that these killings are confined to graffitied estates, or certain ‘types’ of neighbourhoods, as “Did You See Or Hear Anything” shows they occur across the city, in remote spots and lonely alleys, but also in crowded high streets and shopping centres, in deprived areas and in wealthy ones, and although many of the victims are young, not all are in their teens and twenties, another assumption.  As the death toll mounts so do the mounds of flowers that Londoners walk past every day, but despite our own preoccupations these memorials on our streets are getting harder not to notice.

Started in January 2020 and still continuing, the series comprises some 60 photographs taken in locations across the Metropolitan area.

Also showing in the downstairs gallery 'A Wandering Eye - Street Photography across Europe.'

William (Bill) Shapter trained as a photographer, but after spending most of his working life in film and television as a film editor and producer, is happy to be returning to the still image.

Artist:
- Bill Shapter
www.williamshapter.com

EXHIBITION Information

2nd - 14th June 2021

Photography Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily

The start of Spring brings new possibilities, connections with the natural world and human history and opportunities to reflect on what might be – and what might have been.

Mixing the personal with the political, subjects and objects include the circle and cycles of life, forgotten folk traditions, and responses to the climate crisis and its impact, all brought together by tenthirtyart, a group of women artists collaborating on projects since 2013.

We are living in turbulent times, please help.

Artists:
- Ale Dini
- Crow Dillon-Parkin
- Jana Valencia
- Jean Stockwell
- Lara Bartosz
- Morfydd Ransom-Hall

EXHIBITION Information

12th - 16th May 2021

Mixed Media Exhibition

Opening hours 11am - 6pm Daily