2021-2022
Camden Art Centre’s Special Educational Needs Schools Programme works in collaboration with young people, teachers and artists. The project addresses the lack of access for people with learning disabilities to creative experiences and careers in the visual arts. It aims to increase creative opportunities for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and to encourage confidence and independence through collaborative activities that champion all forms of communication and self-expression.
It is our vision, along with the support of ActionSpace as a partner, to improve access and opportunities to the arts for artists and young people with learning disabilities, and to increase participation, education and training provision.
For the 2021/22 academic year artists Evan Bond, Lydia CS and Natalie Zervou-Kerruish were working with teachers and young people from Oaklodge School in Barnet, and Shaftesbury High School in Harrow. Throughout the year the group participated in a series of artist led workshops exploring identity, food and community. Experimenting with sculpture, performance and film the group sought ways to map their inner worlds and find connection through shared experiences.
The year culminated in an exhibition of students’ work in our Artist’s Studio in summer 2022 entitled Recipe for a Table, which presented an interactive display based around the themes and ideas explored by the group.
