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Posts by Sarah Birch

Francis Alÿs: Ricochets, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Youthful inventiveness’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 28 June 2024 at 09:34

The artist’s exploration of children’s play ‘yields rich documentation of their resilience’

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Cedric Christie: Oblivious to Your Own Career, Rocket Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Subtle reflections on form and colour’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 22 May 2024 at 10:35

Christie, a trained welder, ‘draws tremendous grace from everyday materials’

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Jock McFadyen: Made in Hackney 2, The Grey Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The outside world as a sensory force’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 14 May 2024 at 10:58

The painter’s new show in London Fields offers paintings you can get lost in

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‘We need more social housing’: Photographer Tom Hunter on Hackney’s evolution and the threat of ‘monoculture’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 18 April 2024 at 08:47

The artist, who lives and works locally, was speaking as his new exhibition went on display in London Fields

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Artists Gilbert & George on life in East London, sensationalism, and the success of their gallery

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 11 April 2024 at 11:15

The pair spoke to the Citizen after unveiling new artworks to celebrate the first anniversary of the Gilbert & George Centre

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Andrew Pierre Hart, Whitechapel Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Sensory landscape of the streets just outside the walls’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 9 April 2024 at 10:04

Andrew Pierre Hart’s Whitechapel show engages the local area in a way that’s both intimate and readily recognisable

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Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain, Eithne Nightingale, book review: ‘Unique perspectives on how we live’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 2 April 2024 at 12:41

Nightingale’s sensitive collection of people’s stories is ‘remarkable for its sheer diversity’

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King Lear, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Ramped-up, sexed-up take on the Shakespeare classic’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 19 February 2024 at 10:30

Yaël Farber’s adaptation keeps the audience ‘gripped throughout’

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Unravel, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Expands our appreciation of textiles as art’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 19 February 2024 at 08:38

Protest and subversion are stand-out themes of a show that features 50 artists from around the world

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Coming Unstuck, Joe Cullen, book review: ‘An object lesson in how to get out of a rut’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 14 February 2024 at 11:50

The first prose book by the man known as the Bard of Dalston is a ‘very personal foray into the undergrowth of Cool Britannia’

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One Girl Began, Kate Murray-Browne, book review: ‘These women’s lives are all heroic in a small way’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 22 January 2024 at 12:18

The local author’s new novel explores the lives of three women at different junctures in Hackney’s history

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One Last Song, Nathan Evans, book review: ‘A delicately oblique love story’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 8 January 2024 at 14:01

This debut novel by an accomplished poet and performer will have you ‘giggling while reaching for the tissues’

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The Lost Library of Spitalfields Market, Greenhouse Theatre, stage review: ‘A seasonal fairy tale for all ages’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 6 December 2023 at 09:10

This Christmas play at the UK’s first zero-waste theatre is a ‘perfect antidote to hibernal chill’

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1984, Hackney Town Hall, stage review: ‘Timely reminder of just how thuggish servants of the people can be’

By Sarah Birch | Saturday 28 October 2023 at 10:17

The borough’s municipal heart is a fitting place for this immersive take on Orwell’s famous novel

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Hackney Scars, Eddie Plex, book review: ‘Local spirit of anarchic quirk’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 23 October 2023 at 13:30

Photographer and multimedia artist Plex offers up a ‘very personal interpretation’ of the borough

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The Disappearance Boy, Neil Bartlett, book review: ‘Utterly compelling’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 2 October 2023 at 14:24

Bartlett’s tale of illusion and love ‘keeps the reader thoroughly engrossed’

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Street Cries and Traders, Homerton Hospital, exhibition review: ‘Picturesque images of local life’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 4 August 2023 at 10:23

This selection of 13 images from the London Picture Archive are ‘well worth a peek’

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we are a group of people composed of who we are, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Sure to capture the imagination’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 23 June 2023 at 11:24

This new show in Hoxton explores the grassroots culture of collective work in Hackney in the 70s and 80s

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Osvaldo Licini: Rebellious Angel, Estorick Collection, exhibition review: ‘Playful, whimsical and very moving’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 14 June 2023 at 13:35

The first UK show dedicated to the 20th-century painter offers visitors a ‘flight of fancy’

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Sam Hodge: Every Contact Leaves a Trace, 195 Mare Street, exhibition review: ‘Haunting prints that linger in the mind’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 5 June 2023 at 13:27

The local artist puts on a ‘captivating’ show inside Hackney’s second oldest home

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