Join us for a special Open Studios Day as we open to the public the Digital Art Centre six floors of creative workspaces in Camden.
Explore the latest work of a community of artists, makers, and designers, meet practitioners in their studios, and gain insight into their creative environments.
Drinks will be served in the foyer with music.
Alongside the open studios, visitors can experience the wider programme across the building, including the exhibition Soft Bodies, Cold Machines by Ambie Drew, a Media Wall screening by Maya Man, an exhibition tour with Head of Programmes Pita Arreola, and the launch of PURE PROFIT by Raza Tariq.
PROGRAMME
12:00pm - Exhibition opens @Ground Floor
1:00pm - Bars opens @Foyer
1:00pm - Studios floors open for visitors @1-6 Floors
2:00pm - Maya Man's FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT Screening @Outdoor Media Wall
2:30pm - Launch of PURE PROFIT by Raza Tariq, Artist in Residence @Foyer
3:00pm - Soft Bodies, Cold Machines Exhibition Tour with Pita Arreola, Head of Programmes, arebyte @Ground Floor
5:00pm - Studios and bar closing
6:00pm - Exhibition closes
ARTIST BIO
Ambie Drew is a multidisciplinary artist based in Worcester. Her practice interrogates how digital consumerism and artificial intelligence shape the construction of gender and female identity online. Working across moving image, sculptural installation, and text, Ambie adopts a hyperfeminised alter ego to explore the consequences of living in a heavily mediated world where the physical and digital exist in constant flux. Incorporating obsolete technologies, her work reflects on how intimacy, memory, and reality are entangled with internet culture and machine-driven desire.
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her websites, generative series, and installations examine dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self online. She has exhibited internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; bitforms, NYC; SOOT, Tokyo; Verse, London; House of Electronic Arts (HeK), Basel; and the online platform Feral File. She has been invited to speak on her work at The New Museum, NYC; The V&A and Tate Britain, London; and MOCA, Los Angeles. Maya organises a curatorial project called HEART, previously run out of her studio in SoHo, NYC.
Raza Tariq is a London-born conceptual artist whose work examines ritual & technē as coextensive systems. In a world where technology and its influence become invisible, he asks what form visual traditions surrounding shared ideas of an “invisible” take, resituating the Islamic as conceptual occurrence rather than classical object.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Amanda Potts Painter Studio #92, 1st Floor
Antonis Koukoutsis Artist Studio #88, 1st Floor
Beverley Isaacs Painter Studio #12, 6th Floor
Charlotte Norris Designer and Painter Studio #33, 3rd Floor
Damien Cifelli Multidisciplinary Artist Studio #46, 4th Floor
Ananda Kuhn Painter and Printmaker Studio #50, 3rd Floor
ArtNHer Indian Block Printing Studio #69, 2nd Floor
Belinda Nathan Painter Studio #11, 6th Floor
Christopher Matthews Choreography and Installation Studio #44, 4th Floor
Emma Loizides Painter Studio #84, 1st Floor
Florence Bennett Artist Studio #60, 3rd Floor
Jacob Fisk Multimedia Artist Studio #62, 3rd Floor
James Irwin Digital Artist Studio #72, 2nd Floor
Jasmine De Silva Photographer and Director Studio #18, 5th Floor
Lina Noueiri Painter, Illustrator and Printmaker Studio #53, 3rd Floor
Luca Guarino Mixed media Artist Studio #62, 3rd Floor
Helen Campbell Artist Studio #37, 4th Floor
Jake Bond Painter Studio #89, 1st Floor
Jane Mechner Painter and Printmaker Studio #47, 4th Floor
Julain Udine Sculpture and Installation Studio #1, 6th Floor
Louisa Berger Painter Studio #35, 4th Floor
Lucie D'Halluin Painter Studio #93, 1st Floor
Madeline Carpentiere Floral design, Sculpture and Textiles Studio #22, 5th Floor
Manojna ACharya Katte Designer, Artist and Architect Studio #56, 3rd Floor
Matthew Freeborn Painter Studio #59, 3rd Floor
Michael Gao Painter Studio #9, 6th Floor
Ninja D. Evangelista Fashion Accessory Designer Studio #10, 6th Floor
Pikol Studio Fashion Design Studio #100, 2nd Floor
Qurra Tul Anne Denim Artist and Tailor Studio #106, 5th Floor
Rita Raeva Digital and Mixed-media artist Studio #55, 3rd Floor
Shinji Toya Digital and Mixed-media artist Studio #72, 2nd Floor
Soldiers’ Arts Academy Paintings, Woodcuts Studio #75, 2nd Floor
Vyvyd De-Veer Designer Studio #49, 4th Floor
Zehra Ocal Painter Studio #63, 3rd Floor
Mai Muraguchi Multidisciplinary Artist Studio #5, 6th Floor
Mariana Malta Fashion Designer and Multimedia Artist Studio #68, 2nd Floor
Misako Holly-Hayashi Interdisciplinary Artist Studio #1, 6th Floor
Naomi Marchbank Multidisciplinary Artist and Curator Studio #60, 3rd Floor
Pierre d'Avoine Artist, Architect, Writer and Curator Studio #30, 5th Floor
Poppy Critchlow Painter Studio #47, 4th Floor
Rachel Barlow Painter Studio #97, 1st Floor
Samantha Sobhani Painter Studio #52, 3rd Floor
Shirley Amartey Painter Studio #27, 5th Floor
Thomas D Wright Painter and Surgical Photographer Studio #26, 5th Floor
Usaydh Agha Painter Studio #96, 1st Floor