Regents Roots Festival: Camden Open Studios
Saturday 3rd August 2024 , 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Join the artists in the studios in Regent’s Park Estate for an Open Studios celebration as part of Regents Roots Festival!
Opening the doors to over 130 artist studios in Camden, the open studios offer a unique opportunity to get involved with the artist community, connect with talented artists, and experience their incredible works up close. Take a look inside The Lounge to see a summer exhibition of artwork created by the artists working in the studios.
Regent’s Roots is collaboratively curated by Old Diorama Arts Centre and Fitzrovia Youth In Action with local residents from Community Champions and Young Guardians. Imagine a day filled with an eclectic mix of performances: brilliant dance acts, spellbinding circus shows, and engaging theatre performances. Immerse yourself in a variety of workshops, engage with interactive art installations, and enjoy a feast of free food.
This event is family-friendly, and all are welcome to attend the Open Studios.
Visit the artists
Read more about the artists working across Regent’s Park Estate.
Catherine Chambers
Catherine Chambers work is inspired by the environment around her, interpreting the nature of our being, connections with ancestry and attitudes to others familiar and unfamiliar. She embraces subjects that are common to people the world over including self-awareness, aspiration, security and faith. Her artwork is built on close contact with her subjects and echoes her own experiences. Consequently, no matter where a painting is set, it is a reflection on conditions Catherine believes to be universal.
Catherine is a prizewinner for both this years National Portrait Gallery Herbert Smith Freehills Award, and the Royal British Artists “Rising Star” Award.
LEO
Leo’s practice is most easily described as Installation based, multi-media and socially engaged.
Leo will present the light and sound installation ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ as part of his open-studio, a work exploring and building on the Grimm’s folktale as a contemporary narrative.
Also exhibited at Studio44 will be works made by local young people as part of the CSKX/NW5 Project summer school.
Emma Turpin
In recent years, Emma has been exploring the notion of shelter in landscape. There are structures hidden in forests, houses sheltered by trees and there others that have almost become part of the landscape. In other works we see nothing built or man-made but rather shelter suggested by an area of light emerging through a tangle of branches.
Emma uses these familiar natural forms to find a harmonious resolution between colour and form.
Qinlin Yang
Qinlin Yang (China, born 1992) trained at Anglia Ruskin University. Over the past few years, she has moved across multiple countries and experienced diverse cultures. Based on her background, she focuses on immigration mental states, compiling complex emotions. Her work involves the reconstruction of places, and studying the social and political aspects of marginalized immigration communities.
In the three years following her graduation, her works have been featured in 14 exhibitions across five different countries. As a multidisciplinary artist, her artistic practice includes printmaking, drawing, and installation.
See what’s on in The Lounge
Visit us inside Bow Arts’ project space in Langdale House to view our summer exhibition featuring artist works from including a series of collaborative portraits of the residents of Regent’s Park Estate, captured by photographer, artist and educator Brendan Barry in his life-sized Camera Obscura as part of the Story Trail Project.
Find out more about the other events on offer at Regent’s Roots festival here.
Access information
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, please call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3) or email property@bowarts.com.
Cartmel House, Langdale House, and Coniston House have step-free access from street level, and each building has a small lift. Doors to the studios are narrow. An accessible toilet can be found inside The Lounge, at Cartmel House.
Transport Information
Nearest train station(s): Euston (Overground, National Rail, Northern, Victoria), Euston Square (Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metroplitan), Warren Street (Northern, Victoria), Mornington Crescent (Northern).
Bus: 24, 27, 29, 134, 88, 18, 30, 73, 205, 390
