Camden Art Centre is set to close out a three-year programme of work with local young people in an exhibition titled 'Process Makes Practice', on view from October 28 to November 8, 2026. The gallery announced the show on its official Instagram account on October 16, describing it as the culmination of long-term collaborations between artists and young people across the borough.

The exhibition will present installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from the participants, offering a window into how contemporary artists run engagement projects and how young collaborators shape them. It is the public face of three years of workshops and projects developed in partnership with local schools and community groups, supported by The Mildred Fund.

A sharing afternoon on Thursday, October 29, from 2 to 6pm, is aimed at artists, educators and learning professionals, with artist-led workshops and reflections from the Camden Art Centre team; an evening opening of the exhibition follows from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition itself is free and open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm.

The show underlines Camden Art Centre's longstanding commitment to placing learning on an equal footing with its exhibition programme, a principle the institution has held since 1965. For an organisation that has given early platforms to artists from Phyllida Barlow to Kara Walker, this is the moment its backstage work with young people takes centre stage.

The programme itself has run as a series of long-term projects with seven artists, two schools and two community groups across Camden, organised around drawing, sculpture, film, sound and ceramics. For the Centre, which has balanced exhibitions with education since opening in 1965, the show is both a celebration of that infrastructure and a public audit of what three years of slow, process-led work with young people can produce.