1. © Camden Arts Centre
    © Camden Arts Centre
  2. Tal R exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, 2008. © Camden Arts Centre
    Tal R exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, 2008. © Camden Arts Centre
  3. Camden Arts Centre: garden and café. © Camden Arts Centre
    Camden Arts Centre: garden and café. © Camden Arts Centre
  4. Bomb damage during the Blitz: © Camden Arts Centre
    Bomb damage during the Blitz: © Camden Arts Centre
  5. Camden Arts Centre: garden. © Camden Arts Centre
    Camden Arts Centre: garden. © Camden Arts Centre
  6. Mike Nelson installation at Camden Arts Centre (1998, recreated 2010). © Camden Arts Centre
    Mike Nelson installation at Camden Arts Centre (1998, recreated 2010). © Camden Arts Centre
  7. Ruth Ewan installation at Camden Arts Centre, 2015. © Camden Arts Centre
    Ruth Ewan installation at Camden Arts Centre, 2015. © Camden Arts Centre

Review

Camden Art Centre

5 out of 5 stars
  • Art | Galleries
  • Finchley Road
  • Recommended
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Time Out says

Way up on Finchley Road, Camden Art Centre has been quietly ploughing its own artistic furrow since 1965 (it was Hampstead Central Library before that). Go for free contemporary art exhibitions by the likes of Richard Wright, Lonnie Holley and Duane Linklater, with late opening hours on Thursday making an after work trip entirely possible. Or check out the line-up of workshops and events where you can learn skills like making dyes, or attend book launches by local writers. Camden also boasts a great bookshop, a lovely garden and an ace café.

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Arkwright Road
London
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Transport:
Tube: Finchley Road/Hampstead
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Tue, Thu-Sun 10am-6pm; Wed 10am-9pm
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akâmi: Duane Linklater

5 out of 5 stars
How many people does it take to put on a solo exhibition? When I visit akâmi-, the Omaskêko Ininiwak artist Duane Linklater’s show at Camden Art Centre, three technicians are packing up their tools as a photographer takes installation shots. The show was curated by this year’s New Curators fellows, a group of 11 aspiring exhibition makers. It includes work by Linklater’s son and grandmother as well as his wife, Tanya Lukin Linklater, with whom he works under the moniker Grey Plumes. As we approach twenty contributors, I wonder whether the term solo exhibition might be inaccurate. Throughout the show, Linklater playfully questions the idea of singular authorship that underpins the art world and, in many ways, defines our understanding of culture. His message, uniting the three disparate bodies of work on show here, is as clear and simple as it is defiant. His name might top the press release, but it’s not his show; it takes a village. The first room contains a series of arresting, moody canvases awash with the colours of plums, sand and sunsets. Though spartan, they provide plenty to look at. Many are irregular in shape and comprise multiple sheets of linen sewn together. Some are painted with disembodied ornate window frames while others contain rorschach-like splatters. You might imagine Linklater alone in his studio, mixing the colours that make these haunting images, but you’d be wrong. They’re painted with natural materials including tea, sumac and tobacco: in other...
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