Within The Around - Camden Art Centre

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Date 1 Sep 2025/1 Sep 2026

The SEN programme at Camden Art Centre is supported by:
A C & E Foundation
Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
John Lyon’s Charity
The Estate of Rosemary Phelps
The Steven Bloch Image of Disability Charitable Trust.

This programme is delivered in partnership with ActionSpace.

A year-long project with artists Immanuel Adelowo, Henny Shaw and Eva Jonas in partnership with local schools.

Through a series of workshops pupils from Swiss Cottage School and The Village School have been responding to the centre’s garden and the different materials found there.

The group have explored a range of techniques including monoprinting, tie dye, ceramics and photography combining natural resources, art materials and experimental processes to make works together.

Exploring the garden as a site of growth and decay the group have also installed artwork in the outside spaces inviting the weather, insects and wildlife in the ecosystem as co-collaborators.

Using chance, repetition and play the artists and pupils have established a shared visual language that will be showcased in an exhibition held at the gallery this Summer.

The Artists

Immanuel makes precise paintings and drawings that depict highly specific but imagined places. These works involve the use of memory, digital images, and observations from the real world in one place. His marks come from his feeling for the materials he’s using and a careful design of the composition. In all his pieces colour-blending becomes a way of showing us the relationships between things and how they fit together.

About his thought process while painting, Immanuel says:
“It’s about trying for balance… between what is there and not there – questions of what to keep and not keep. If I do a brush mark, and it looks good there, I leave it and search for when a piece of the painting ‘fits’.”

Immanuel often paints open spaces that contain intricate domestic details. This produces intriguing, surreal contrasts, like a small table sat in a vast mountainous landscape, or a tray of drinks offered up in a desert. The movement of the sea, caves and the horizon are repeated motifs. His work invites us to think about what is seen and what is remembered, creating a world where an atmosphere of strangeness houses everyday objects.

Henny is a multimedia visual artist and creative organiser based in London. Inspired by her work with young people, children and families, and neurodivergent and Disabled people, she is currently exploring tactile and intuitive processes of making, and the therapeutic qualities of art.

Henny has studied a foundation course in Arts Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London. They have worked with organisations such as Crafts Council, Camden Arts Centre, and Artbox London to deliver collaborative, process-led workshops. Henny was the organiser and founder of CRIT CLUB, a peer-to-peer artist support and feedback group, and has curated several exhibitions and creative events celebrating young people, connection, and creativity. She is currently studying the Art Psychotherapy MA at Goldsmiths.

Eva Jonas is a visual artist and educator whose practice examines how the body shapes our experience of, and movement through, landscape.

Her work combines collecting, restaging, and intervention through sculptural forms and research materials, and extends into facilitation that uses making, performance, and shared enquiry to surface informal knowledge and speculative ideas around place.

An ongoing body of research developed over the last three years examines building as a cultural and political practice, asking how building-based cultures might foster shared authorship, mutual support, and forms of queer and feminist world-building. This research is currently activated through Queer Grounds, a young people’s programme supported by Photoworks and initiated in autumn 2025, which moves between photography, performance, and sculpture to explore the political and social potential of a queer carpentry collective in West Sussex, and how collective making might reshape rural space and community.