Swiss Cottage Gallery

Free, drop-in Art Workshop for children
Sat 14 April, 11am – 3pm

Art workshop for children as part of Cityread event which celebrates Dicken’s bicentenary and focuses on “Oliver Twist’.

Exhibition: 'Faces of Bangladesh' by Nic Madge
26 April – 20 May

In April 2011, the fortieth anniversary of Bangladeshi independence, Nic Madge travelled the length and breadth of Bangladesh with his camera, taking photos of the people he saw. This selection of one hundred portrait photos, Faces of Bangladesh, captures the life, the vigour, and the diversity of the people of Bangladesh.

Exhibition: 'Let This Be a Sign' by Simon Roberts
25 May – 1 July

This is part of the London Festival of Photography.

Simon Roberts has been photographing the landscape of the UK since 2007. This resulted the acclaimed publication of We English (Chris Boot, 2009).
During this time he has witnessed the credit crunch as it unfolded, giant institutions teetering on the brink of collapse, and the country moving into a period of austerity.

While it seems that not a day goes by without more grim economic news, the current recession has been largely visually invisible. This is in partly because the eventual effects of such news – a lost job, a vanishing pension, cuts to social services – are intensely personal. Over the last eighteen months Roberts has been looking at modes of representing the physical, political and social effects of economic change.
As with his previous projects, Roberts will be adding a collaborative, interactive element to this exhibition by encouraging public participation.

The Gallery programme

• Solo exhibitions by artists living and working in the borough area- and beyond- reflecting the contemporary visual arts community of Camden and the visual art and design institutions in the borough
• Exhibitions that draw attentions to the artistic history of Camden and artists that have lived or worked in the borough
• Annual Architecture exhibition usually coinciding for Architecture Week
• Annual Young Persons exhibition
• One exhibition every twelve months profiling a community group or artists association working in the borough
• One exhibition as part of Camden Council’s programme to mark the 2012 Cultural Olympiad

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