Camden Arts Centre

Camden Arts Centre

The 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, although by no means is it the largest arts venue per se.

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. It has a focus on the visual arts.

External links

* [http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home.asp Camden Arts Centre official site]
* [http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/011/camden.htm "Icon" magazine on the restoration of the Centre]


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