Abigail and Phebe Cameron transform shared childhood memory into bold, layered screen print, sculpture and installation, asking how much of the inner child survives the journey into adulthood.
You’re walking into a room full of toys and sweets, and suddenly, you realise you are not entirely comfortable… That is the understated power at the heart of Imagine That!, the London solo exhibition from The Cameron Twins, a show that wraps genuine warmth around something more searching and more unsettled.
Presented at Protein Studios in Shoreditch across 26 to 28 February 2026, the exhibition brought together large-scale hand-pulled screen prints, sculpture and immersive installation to create a world that felt simultaneously familiar and faintly unnerving. The source material, toys, sweets and objects lifted directly from the artists’ own childhoods, sounds deceptively simple. What the twins do with it is anything but.
Abigail and Phebe Cameron’s practice is rooted in the physical. Hand-pulled screen print sits at the centre of everything: the labour of it, the layering, the repetition that builds meaning through accumulation rather than declaration. Each pass of the squeegee adds another stratum of colour, another layer of memory, and the resulting works carry that weight visibly. Bold, flat fields of colour collide with collaged elements and surreal compositions that reward close attention. As the artists describe it, “Childhood is full of wild invention and unfiltered fun. Imagine That! explores the internal struggle to hold onto playfulness as we grow older, a kind of tug-of-war between imagination and responsibility.”
As identical twins working collaboratively, repetition runs deeper than technique. It’s structural: two perspectives on the same shared experience, the same referenced objects, the same upbringing. That doubling gives the work an unusual resonance. These are not individual recollections translated into imagery but something more collectively constructed, a shared archive reprinted across canvas, paper and three-dimensional space. Many of the materials and motifs are taken directly from their childhood and reimagined throughout, grounding the work in something genuinely lived rather than merely referenced.
On first encounter, Imagine That! operates in the visual language of pop: punchy palettes, immediately legible imagery and the graphic confidence of work that knows exactly how to hold a room. The scale helps. Large-format screen prints have a presence that commands space, and the Shoreditch setting gave the work room to breathe and dominate in equal measure. But spend longer with it and the undertones surface. The playfulness is not uncomplicated. Familiar objects start to feel slightly off, the colours too saturated, the repetition too insistent, the scale just a little too large. The show was never simply nostalgic. It was interrogating nostalgia, asking what happens to the imagery of childhood when viewed through adult eyes.
The work builds, as the twins put it,
“an immersive environment where playful surfaces sit alongside uncanny or sometimes more unsettling undertones, exploring how nostalgia shifts as we grow older.”
Beyond the prints, the inclusion of sculpture and installation extended everything into three dimensions. The exhibition environment itself became part of the argument, not a neutral container for objects but an immersive space where the boundary between artwork and atmosphere grew productively blurry. Visitors were not just looking at the work. They were inside it. This kind of thinking, where the room becomes the work, is central to how The Cameron Twins push their practice beyond the traditional contexts of screen print, using the tactile immediacy of the medium as an anchor while operating at an entirely different scale.
The Cameron Twins are contemporary British artists based in London, working across hand-pulled screen print, sculpture and installation. Their practice is defined by bold colour, layered compositions and a visual language rooted in childhood memory, nostalgia and pop culture. Through playful yet psychologically charged imagery, they explore themes of imagination, identity and the persistence of the inner child.
All images: Installation views, Imagine That!, Protein Studios, London, 2026. Hand-pulled screen prints, sculpture and immersive installation. Photography: The Cameron Twins.
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