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Haricot Gallery is thrilled to present What Shall We Do for the Rent, a group exhibition running from the 25th of June until the 1st of August 2026.

The title of the exhibition takes its name from the Walter Sickert painting of the same name. Sickert settled in London in 1905 and held informal gatherings of artists and collectors at his studio in Camden Town, which led to the formation of the Camden Town Group. The core artists of the group were Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, Robert Bevan and Spencer Gore. The Group painted the world immediately around them, bedsits and back gardens, music halls and Camden streets. Looking to Paris, to Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, they asked how that boldness of colour could be applied to the unglamorous reality of North London life. Some of the group embraced this; others did not.

This exhibition brings together a group of artists who, like the Camden Town Group, find in the everyday a subject of genuine weight, objects, interiors, the overlooked moment. Their approaches differ: some arrive at the canvas through memory and accumulated time; others meet it with immediacy, energy and a boldness of colour. But the underlying instinct is shared, that ordinary life, looked at carefully and honestly enough, is equal to any grand tradition. Haricot Gallery sits on Royal College Street, in the heart of the neighbourhood the Group called their own. The conversation continues, in some respects challenging what the Group stood for, in others moving it forward.