Art Meets Cashmere
The Cameron Twins from London
The unique closeness of the Cameron Twins is reflected not only in their vividly coloured artworks, but throughout their entire creative process.
Shelves filled with old toys: Barbies, trolls, plastic horses. Scattered among them, broken doll arms and legs. Stacked silkscreen frames leaning against the walls, and plastic containers of paint almost everywhere, their fluorescent pigments casting a distinctive glow across the studio.
“Organised chaos” is how Phebe and Abigail Cameron describe the atmosphere of their studio in South East London.
The artists are more than sisters. As identical twins, they form the duo The Cameron Twins. Although their collaboration officially began in 2021, in many ways it has been ongoing since childhood. One of the earliest works they remember creating together was a series of large chalk drawings made outdoors — an immersive yet ephemeral work of art.
“The experience of building interactive worlds through collaboration remains a central part of how we work today.”
Each work is created side by side, in a fluid and dynamic process without fixed roles. Just as little can the London-based artists be confined to a single medium. They have created installations and sculptures, yet feel especially drawn to silkscreen printing.
“The focus on layering and multiplication has a strong connection to our identity as twins and as a collaborative duo. Vivid colour is central to our visual language.”
Across their work, themes such as childhood memories, nostalgia, identity and duplication appear in playful repetition. Shared references — drawings, family photographs, keepsakes with personal histories, often marked by signs of use — are woven into their imagery. The result is a world of emotional depth and flashes of dark humour, one that visitors to Hamburg’s Affenfaust Galerie were able to encounter in 2024.
Soon, an entirely new medium may be added to the Cameron Twins’ practice: a scarf in delicate cashmere.
“It would be something very special for our work to exist in such a tangible, intimate form. The material is associated with comfort and care, which resonates with the way our artworks engage with nostalgia and the healing of the inner child.”
From Print to Cashmere