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Art & Design

Artist Vlatka Horvat set for first UK solo show at PEER gallery – with a year’s worth of work to be displayed over eight weeks

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 17 January 2022 at 11:52

The Croatian-born artist’s By Hand, On Foot exhibition will feature sculpture, photography, film, and more

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‘Colourful promise with nothing to back it up’: Artist Simon the Last takes aim at high-tech with light show in an empty shop

By Sarah Birch | Monday 17 January 2022 at 10:54

Window display in Hoxton featuring over 3,600 LEDs ‘explores the ways in which our material existences have been warped’

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Centuries-old stained glass windows discovered at Homerton Hospital after ‘decades in the dark’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 January 2022 at 13:54

The ‘truly amazing’ roundels have been restored and put on display after being unearthed in a store room

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Thompson Hall unveiled as Autograph gallery’s first artist-in-residence

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 15 December 2021 at 12:04

The painter will take up the three-month position in Shoreditch in the new year

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‘We’d play music on cassettes, roll spliffs using Rizla and chew gum whilst on speed’: Artist James Talon brings the rave to Hackney Road

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 3 December 2021 at 12:10

The artist’s nostalgic solo show, Sweet Lord, is on display at the Old Bank Vault this month

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Out of this world! Hackney primary school pupils flex their creativity for UFO arts project

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 25 November 2021 at 13:33

Artist Tom Pearman teams up with the Rio Cinema to offer children an other-worldly experience

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Ten artists deliver ‘remarkable’ response to the Covid pandemic in major new exhibition at Autograph gallery

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 11 November 2021 at 13:35

Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other contains ‘experimental and deeply personal approaches’ to the outbreak

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The house of Medici and its fascination with pear paintings

By Gillian Riley | Monday 8 November 2021 at 10:58

Our resident food historian on the humble pear

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Major artwork inspired by an encounter in Dalston acquired by V&A

By Lizzie McAllister | Tuesday 12 October 2021 at 10:44

Artist Kehinde Wiley painted Melissa Thompson after the pair met at Ridley Road Market

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Noguchi, Barbican Art Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Blurring the line between representational and abstract’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 11 October 2021 at 15:21

Major retrospective on the work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi is ‘breathtakingly diverse’

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Pawtraiture

By Gillian Riley | Monday 11 October 2021 at 11:56

Our resident food historian Gillian Riley on Manet, Monet and mousers

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‘I wanted to change my life’: Local artist draws Hackney after taking up illustration when Covid hit

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 1 October 2021 at 10:55

Becky Moriarty found plenty of inspiration in the borough after quitting her graphic design job – and even connected with her Irish roots along the way

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Artist Lubna Chowdhary branches out for new exhibition in Hoxton

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 20 September 2021 at 16:02

The famed ceramicist brings wooden sculptures along with her trademark tiles to PEER gallery

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Frequencies, Oscar Murillo, exhibition review: ‘Conceptual art at its finest’

By Marion Weaver | Friday 3 September 2021 at 14:59

The Turner Prize-winner recently unloaded 40,000 canvasses showcasing children’s doodles at his former school in Hackney, and the result was ‘absorbing’

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Homerton Hospital’s first public exhibition in two years brings ‘feel-good factor’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 11 August 2021 at 10:47

Local artist Jane Smith’s ‘vibrant’ depictions of Hackney will soon grace the hospital’s main corridor

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Hyangmok Baik: Forgotten By Us, Beers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The more one looks, the more one sees’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 22 July 2021 at 08:21

The Korean painter’s solo show is ‘full of colour and off-beat imagery’

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‘It has helped me move on’: Artworks by brain injury survivors on display at Autograph gallery

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 5 July 2021 at 11:39

Common Threads features textile pieces by 23 artists from charity Headway’s Submit to Love Studios

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Jordy Kerwick: I’ll Come Back Again, Union Gallery: ‘Dream-like imagery mixed with personal symbolism’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 11:51

The artist’s show in Bethnal Green ‘leaves one wondering what exotic stories lurk deep in our minds’

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‘Phantasmagoric imagery’ on show at Royal Drawing School’s annual student exhibition

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 15 June 2021 at 17:37

Over 550 drawings are on display at the school in Shoreditch

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Artist turns construction debris into sculptures for Chisenhale exhibition

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 10 June 2021 at 11:34

Yu Ji’s use of rubble and plant matter ‘uncovers the hidden vitality of the mundane or disregarded’

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