12.30pm to 9pm, Tuesday 27 October 2026
The Horace Ové Archives bring the photographs and films of Sir Horace Ové back to Camden for a free day and evening in The Network. Curated by Orphée Kashala, Art Knights shows his photography alongside work by three artists shaped by his example: Zak Ové, Normski and Hassan Hajjaj.
From 12.30pm the exhibition is open and four of his films are screened: King Carnival at 1pm, Street Arts at 2.30pm, Asian Arts at 3.15pm and Reggae at 4pm.
The evening opens with drinks at 5.30pm. At 6.30pm his son, the filmmaker Kaz Ové, premieres Late Knight Anamnesis, a new triptych video installation made in tribute to his father. Then at 7.10pm Zak Ové, Normski, Indra Ové and more guests, to be announced, discuss Horace Ové’s influence on generations of Black British image-makers.
Entry is free and all ages are welcome. The daytime (12.30pm to 5pm) and the evening (5.30pm to 9pm) are booked separately, and you can book both.
Photograph by Horace Ové
Born in Trinidad in 1936, Horace Ové moved to Britain in 1960 and spent the following decades recording Black life in Britain and the Caribbean in photographs and on film. He photographed the Black Power movement and the rise of Notting Hill Carnival, and his 1976 film Pressure was the first full-length drama by a Black director in Britain. He was knighted in 2022 and died the following year.
Art Knights brings his work, including King Carnival, into a building with its own carnival history: in 1959 Claudia Jones staged Britain’s first major Caribbean Carnival here, a forerunner of the Notting Hill Carnival that Ové went on to photograph.
