Posts by Michelle Tonta
Sticky, gritty and collaborative: inside the London International Paste-Up Festival
The founder on wheat paste, global collaboration and why the area’s creative identity feels newly fragile
Read MoreIn search of lost Wick
Mended banners and rehung paste-ups summon a decade of memory in Felstead Art’s Proustian two-parter
Read MoreA biennial in the backyard: Whitechapel Gallery turns 125
From dub nightclubs to mosque windows, the anniversary festival tells East London’s story in its own words
Read MoreShirt and mask: Jil Mandeng’s painted World Cup
The Chilean-born painter’s new show at BSMT Space pairs football kits with traditional masks to ask what national allegiance leaves out
Read More‘Water holds memory in the way we think of fossils’
Phoebe Boswell’s new work sends Black swimmers dancing up and down the escalators at Bethnal Green, reclaiming water as a place of refuge rather than loss
Read MoreAt BowFest
In and out amongst the easels: a weekend of open studios
Read MoreHackney goes looking for itself
Cheese handbags and sandwich shoes: Hackney Art Week 2026
Read More‘Watching the light-colour clothes spin in the washing machine, I suddenly thought of a ballerina’s tutu seen from above’
Brooklyn-based painter Ellie Kayu Ng on her debut UK solo exhibition Catching the Big Fish at Twilight Contemporary
Read MoreInstant happiness in Hackney Wick
Artist Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa brings Moments of Joy to Unlock
Read MoreOkiki Akinfe reimagines the British high street
RM9 5AN: A love letter to Dagenham at Peer is a ‘portrait of a place’
Read MoreNoorani Metal Sound: A tribute to Pakistan’s aquatic regions
Intertwining the sonic and the sacred at Auto Italia
Read More‘Protest, resistance and revolution’: Barbican announces Project a Black Planet
A summer-long season highlighting Pan-Africanism’s influence on the arts
Read More‘Not My Type’: Inside Atom Gallery’s new group show
Thirty artists reinterpret ‘type’ in Atom Gallery’s latest exhibition
Read More‘Unstable and emotionally charged’ – ‘Of Walking on Fire’ at Autograph
Senior curator Bindi Vora speaks about the gallery’s new show opening 16 April
Read More‘It was filmic gold’ – Trainspotting exhibition at Atom Gallery celebrates 30 years of iconic Danny Boyle film
Choose Life. Choose 30 years of Trainspotting. Choose gazing at a Periodic Table of Swearing at Newington Green’s Atom Gallery from 21 February
Read MoreFinding beauty in the everyday — artist Kuda Mushangi on his debut solo exhibition in Hackney
Architect turned artist Kuda Mushangi seeks to find beauty in the mundane at his first solo exhibition, ‘Familiar Spaces’
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