ARTIST COLLECTIVES: CAMDEN TOWN GROUP TALK 2

With Martin Beek

Sat 18 Oct 2025, 12–1pm

At the Museum and Online

This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential.

Tickets will be available to book soon

With Martin Beek, artist and art historian

In Martin's second talk on the Camden Town Group, he examines why artists found this busy neighbourhood and London itself so exciting. Although the group was short-lived, its influence was profound.

Charles Ginner a founder member who grew up in France assimilated European styles into his very British metropolitan subject matter. Robert Bevan and Ginner’s associates have a clarity of vision and liveliness of style that brilliantly reflects urban life during this period.

Hampstead Heath trees and bench in spring by Charles Isaac Ginner

Hampstead Heath, Spring, Charles Ginner, 1932, oil on canvas © Ashmolean Museum

Ennui by Walter Sickert featuring a husband and bored wife in a London home

Ennui, Walter Sickert, 1917-1918, oil on canvas © Ashmolean Museum

Post-Impressionist style painting of Victoria Station in pen and bluish and dark brown inks with wash and watercolour and squared in red ink

The Forecourt at Victoria Station, Charles Ginner, 1893-1952, pen & bluish & dark brown inks with wash & watercolour, squared in red ink © Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean is fortunate to have exceptional examples of the Camden Town Group's work and this talk will focus in detail upon a number of these important paintings.

There will be a chance to assess the contribution of Ethel Sands, Malcolm Drummond, and the developing careers of Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman and Frederick Spencer Gore.

The first talk in this series takes place on 11 Oct: