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Why It Matters: Art in a Kentish Town Shed

By on March 5, 2012 in Art, Why It Matters

The Free Space Gallery project is a toddler now; at two years old we feel ready to utter some of our first fully formed sentences. And like many precocious children, we think what we do is important – and I’m here to tell you why. The Kentish Town Health Centre, nestled behind the High Street, [...]

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Finally some Free Space, man

By on August 4, 2011 in Art, News

Back in July at the wonderful Alma Street Festival, as Mrs Kentishtowner grew increasingly giddy on local ale, we got chatting to Mel, a rather nice lady who was keen to tell us about the Free Space Gallery. Look, here she is, smiling: And hidden away in Kentish Town Health Centre on Bartholomew Road, the [...]

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Gallery news: Leighton Space

By on May 26, 2011 in Art

Now, we have to ‘fess up. We still have yet to visit Leighton Space, the new gallery and studios just a few minutes’ walk from KT tube station. Yet here they are, already on their second (third?) exhibition, so this time round we’ve marked the calendar with a black pen -and promise to report back. [...]

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Darling Buds Of Queen’s Crescent

By on May 5, 2011 in Art, West Kentish Town

Hot of the press: the illustrious folks behind new pop-up exhibition, Darling Buds, at the Parlour Gallery on Queen’s Crescent, invite Kentishtowner readers to their private view tonight from 6-10pm. The event is part of a rather intriguing month-long happening (of which The Kentishtowner is not, alas, yet privy) called Come What May. For Darling [...]

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Gallery Watch: Leighton Space, Liminal & Guts For Garters

By on April 1, 2011 in Art, Culture, Hidden Gem, Pinboard

Another week, another gallery or three. But it’s nice to see this one opening outside the West Kentish Town ghetto and in the previously artistically-untapped “Leightons” area just east of the Assembly House pub. Leighton Space , says the blurb, provides the “opportunity for professional artists to show work at all stages and in a [...]

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‘The Value Of Things’: starts Saturday

By on March 3, 2011 in Art, Culture, Pinboard, West Kentish Town

A few weeks ago artist Claire Hind asked us to mention The Value Of Things, her new pop-up exhibition at the Parlour Gallery on Queen’s Crescent. Well, it starts this Saturday, so head down if you’re around. For more details check out their website or, for the time-pressed, opening times and contributors etc are: OPENING [...]

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But is it art?

By on January 20, 2011 in Art

I know it’s all art, art, art this week on The Kentishtowner, but before we forget, we have to plug the Camden New Journal’s recent interview with NW5 legend Dame Paula Rego on the subject of local graffitti. Rego, whose studio is in Kentish Town, wisely supports the idea of a committee to consider the [...]

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Tracey comes to Malden Road?

By on January 20, 2011 in Art, Culture, West Kentish Town

Exciting news just in today. The Kentishtowner has just learnt that from Feb 5 to March 27 Tracey Emin will be showing at an empty shop on Malden Road (#46), as part of the Zabludowicz’s forthcoming “The Shape We’re In (Camden)”. For that, we’ll forgive her conversion to Toryism (almost). The press release reads: “Taking [...]

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Queen’s Crescent Market

By on November 26, 2010 in Art, Chalk Farm, Coffee, Culture, Food, History, Walks, West Kentish Town

There’s nowhere else in the area like it. Some say it’s rundown and depressing, others that it’s unpretentious and one of the last pockets of real London. Go decide for yourself tomorrow (or every Thursday/Saturday), when the street market (one of the oldest in the capital) runs from 9am -3pm. If you arrive from Chalk [...]

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Grafton Road

By on November 10, 2010 in Art, Culture, Walks, West Kentish Town

Grafton Road is coming up in the world. Why? Because this formerly maligned corner of West Kentish Town’s warehouses, factories and yards (mostly remnants of its former life as the centre of the piano industry in Edwardian times) have been rebirthed as fashion, film, production, media, TV studios and architectural practices. Wander the streets and [...]

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