Art & Design
A very Hackney WickED weekend
Despite the rain, Hackney WickED’s excursion to Red Market was a resounding success
Read MoreLondon Design Week – Ceramics in the City exhibition at Geffrye Museum
From delicate porcelain to earthy stoneware, the Geffrye Museum’s exhibition is sure to delight pottery enthusiasts
Read MoreMaking it – the London Design Festival
The London Design Festival features many Hackney-based studios and designer-makers
Read MoreFreeze frame fantasies – Still at Transition
New exhibition celebrates the power of cinema to move us even when the pictures stop moving
Read MoreSophie Rees – the art of simplicity
Dalston artist, who is to open a new gallery shortly, explains how she composes her vibrant paintings
Read MoreTake a byte – Eat All You Can
HaYoung Kim’s exhibition at Hoxton Art Gallery explores the way we consume technology
Read MoreSweet Revenge – Sweet Toof solo show at The Colour Works
Hackney Wick provides the location for an exhibition of grinning graffiti this month
Read MoreHackney galleries’ Olympic art attack
Away from the official Cultural Olympiad, East London artists are expressing more ambivalent viewpoints on the impact of the Games
Read MoreDesigned in Hackney Day – 1 August
The beginning of next month starts with a day dedicated to Hackney’s best designers in special pop-up Shoreditch venue, Hackney House
Read MoreFrank Laws – London Bits
Hackney artist’s social housing paintings reveal beauty in the mundane as he explores his mixed feelings about the borough’s changing face
Read MoreBhopal: A Silent Picture – review
Human Rights Action Centre. Until Tuesday 31 July 2012
Read MoreGoing nowhere – the East End art scene
Despite rumours of the death of the local art scene, it is still very much alive and well
Read MoreShoreditch Stories – review
Discover portrayals of the everyday at a GP surgery in Shoreditch
Read MoreThe Merry Bobbins – crafty duo keep bygone skills alive
Workshops from The Merry Bobbins aim to bring age-old crafts to a new generation of ‘make-do and menders’
Read MoreFlora Parrott – 1000th
Parrott’s sugar fingers are inspired by the Buddhist story of Angulimala. WW Gallery, until 1 July
Read MoreDio Lau – Confession in Water
Artist Dio Lau’s debut solo exhibition at the Book Club in Shoreditch explores the dark corners of the human psyche
Read MoreClerkenwell Design Week 2012 – review
Hackney designers offered a lot to see and do at this spectacular three-day event
Read MoreGet Carta – the art of mapping
Eight artists explore community, place, and nature at the Karin Janssen Project Space in Well Street
Read MoreFacing Power and Beauty
Jasper Joffe contrasts portraits of brutal dictators and images of Hollywood actresses at Rove Gallery in Hoxton
Read MoreJewel East competition: win jewellery making workshop for two with Holts Academy
Enjoy the East London Jewellery Week Trail and win a workshop session with top jewellery school
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