Art for Architecture’s Sake
Exhibition Dates: Mid July 2025 - Oct 2025.
Location: Queen’s Crescent Practice. 76 Queens Crescent, London, NW5 4EB
Exhibition Opening Times:
Monday - Friday: 8:30 - 18:30
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
Art for Architecture’s Sake is an exhibition of prints exploring geographical and architectural sites by artist, architect and urbanist Adeyemo Desalu.
What qualifies a space as private or public, and how does community exist within the in-between? Bringing this discussion into the Queens Crescent Practice, exhibiting artist Adeyemo Desalu presents ‘Art for Architecture’s Sake’, marking their solo debut with Creative Health Camden.
For Adeyemo Desalu, architectural design can be the element that skilfully blurs the perceived lines between private and public. A Camden local and patient at Queens Crescent Practice, Desalu navigates how the structures of a medical practice offer this liminality. Situated in the centre of Queens Crescent Market, conversations from beyond the reception are led inside and up a flight of stairs, departing into separate GP offices, where patients are able to privately find support and solution to their medical conditions.
Deconstructing this architectural relationship and building a new foundation, ‘Art for Architecture’s Sake’ explores the synthesis between public and private, and how a practice like Queens Crescent Practice offers and distinguishes the two. It transforms and identities the practice as a public zone embracing the private health needs of the Camden community.
Desalu invites his artistic renditions of Lecce’s historical urban planning, extending the exhibition’s geographic and architectural scope. Fascinated by the city’s void spaces, pocket dimensions, textural grit and interweaving grids - Desalu fervently draws parallels between Lecce and Camden, reaffirming Lecce as the geographic ‘heel of Italy’ and instating Queens’ Crescent Practice as the supportive ‘heel of Camden’.
About Adeyemo Desalu:
Adeyemo Desalu is a Camden-based artist, architect and urbanist. An MA Graduate from Bartlett School of Planning at University College London, Desalu specialises in Urban Regeneration, Development and Planning. His creative practice focuses on the connection between art-making, architectural design and urban planning.