Kentish Town Residency

about

2 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3LQ

From 3rd March 2025

The group is led by Senior Curator at Art D’Egypte, who organised UNESCO-patroned exhibitions at the Pyramids of Giza, and other historical sites, and worked with Christie’s and Google Arts & Culture and teach art and curation at the London College of Contemporary Art. The group comprises 17 creatives, producing interdisciplinary art and programming community practice. Some notable affiliations include moderating talks at the Royal Academy, exhibiting and presenting work at the Barbican, BBC Sounds, Tate Lates, ICA, BFI, Chelsea Space, Museum of London, BAFTA and Camden’s Arts.

All of the group have strong ties to Camden, through living in the area and education at Central Saint Martins. They aim to leverage these connections in their collaboration with Hypha. Across the group, they’ve had partnerships with spaces such as Camden People’s Theatre, Highgate Cemetary, Old Diorama’s Art Centre, Camden’s School for Girls and local food spots. They proposal emphasises workshops, community and group exhibitions, and collaborations with Camden’s charities. Their initiatives will engage locals through film screenings, workshops, cultural dinners, and public programs that democratise art and foster cultural exchange. With key themes of identity, memory, inclusion, sustainability, and gentrification.

Public Programme:
The group’s public programme will include Open Studios, a 24h Cinema programme, a seminar to discuss excerpts of “Wicked Arts Assignments: Practicing Creativity in Creative Art Education”, The Bell Jar Society sessions – including readings, creative activity and discussions, Film and Experimental night in collaboration with Slade & CSM, and Supper Clubs.

artists

Sara

david

Sara David (b. Delhi) is an Artist, Curator, and Associate Lecturer based in London. She works across experimental moving-image, photography, and socially engaged practice,
using multi-sensory installations and dinner parties to activate conversations.

@saradavid_art

Hanya

elghamry

A multi-disciplinary curator, researcher, educator and artist
with strong experience in the creative industry worldwide. Her work focuses on soft power and its social engagement, art
democratization and cultural identity.

@hanyaelghamry

jam jam

JamJam “Jamie” Anker- artist/community organiser with
mixed practice that is Situated at the junction of Visual, lighting and performance based art which is interwoven with stories of resistance, emancipation and Revolution.

@jamie_anker

manmeet k walia

Manmeet K Walia (born in 1986) is a curator and writer, with her ongoing practice on young South Asian voices. Walia considers her curatorial approach as an expressive artistic practice to raise social issues through experiential discourse.

@manmeetkwalia

Ellen warner

Fluctuating between installation, photography and moving image, her work examines national heritage, tradition and the idea of “authenticity” in relation to the Korean diaspora

@ellenwarner.art

lizzie Cardozo 

Lizzie is a multidisciplinary artist (British b. 1995). Central themes in her practice are family, identity, home, and archaeology. Lizzie is interested in how objects hold memory. She treats objects as a visual diary for the human experience.

@lizzie_cardozo

 

simon
job

His practice is engaged in painting, photography and sculpture. He explores the boundaries of how these disciplines are conventionally used and looks for new ways to exploit those already well trodden approaches to art making.

@simonjob

 

dan Wilkinson 

Dan Wilkinson (British b.1991) is an artist whose video work
examines the relationship between the viewer as spectator.
He also organises experimental screenings as
@Doublewonderfulevents

@daniel__wilkinson__

Moesha Parirenyatwa

Moesha designs book covers and was shortlisted for Designer of the Year at Nibbies. She is known for her highly intricate hand-drawn ink drawings.

@moeparixx

Alex

Free

 

Alex Free is an artist who works primarily in perfromance,
installation and ritualised-pratice. He uses these mediums to explore his relationships to mental health, spirituality and the natural world.

@alexfree123

Kajal Mistry 

 

Kajal Mistry is an artist and workshop facilitator, specializing in illustration. She is currently exploring how to combine her love of cooking with her illustrative practice, as well as running workshops on easily accessible arts and crafts.

@kajalmistry__studio

yarden fudim

 

Yarden Fudim (b.2000) is an artist who works with drawing,
performance, sculpture, video, and installation. In her practice, she explores the human condition and ontology by reframing and deconstructing the everyday.

@yardenfudim

mollie-may manley

Mollie-may Manley, a textiles artist with a knitwear focus.
Her recent work has drawn inspiration from her Maltese
heritage.

@moeparixx

aishwarya

sanchety 

 

Aishwarya is a designer and photographer, exploring home,
displacement, and memory. She blends typography and
photography to craft thoughtful, warm narratives. Central to her practice is the feeling of respite and finding solace in intimate moments.

@theelsewherearchives

Rosemary Cronin

 

Rosemary Cronin is an artist, writer & lecturer with a research-based practice focusing on gender & psychoanalysis through film, performance, paint, print & sculpture. Cronin has exhibited at Freud Museum, ICA, Transition Gallery, South London Gallery.

@rosemaryjanecronin

about Camden council

Camden Council is creating a new type of building where local organisations, businesses, and residents can come together to take action, test new ways of doing things and shape their local neighbourhood. The aim is that these ‘Neighbourhood Spaces’ will be bustling hives of imagination and activity, governed by the community and self-funded through enterprise that supports local people. 

The Council has sought funding to retrofit the former cinema at 2 Prince of Wales Road to create the borough’s first Neighbourhood Space. The site will respond to local needs and voices with a bespoke brief created in partnership with the community to generate a sustainable, creative space that enables social action and an equitable green transition.

On our journey to create this new Neighbourhood Space, the Council is planning to re-open part of the building in partnership with Hypha Studios to create free artist studio space and a ‘Civic Action Lab’ test space.

The Lab will be a space for the local community to test and develop new ideas and initiatives that could feature in the final Neighbourhood Space, it will be used to support and inform the final design of the building whilst nurturing the vital community connections required to create a thriving collaborative hub. The temporary space aims to be a lively environment, building relationships across disciplines and traditional boundaries to develop innovative ways of working and new opportunities for everyone.

The artists based in the space are invited to respond to this context and forge new relationships with local people, asking how art and creativity can encourage new voices to participate in social action and enable a fair transition.

 

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