Art & Design – Page 8 – Hackney Citizen

Fifteen painters join up to explore the ‘underbelly of urban existence’ for Bethnal Green show

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 7 March 2019 at 15:55

Urban Contemporaries at Espacio Gallery features 80 artworks looking at the ‘essential forces of the city experience’

Hackney artists to feature at 2019’s London Art Fair

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 December 2018 at 07:00

Works by up-and-comers and household names will be on show at the annual exhibition, which returns to Islington next month

Carved-up Stik mural to get Polish homecoming after four-year wrangle with London gallery boss

By Max Eckersley | Friday 21 December 2018 at 15:10

Stik hails ‘step forward for artists’ rights’ as he reveals plans to restore a community mural in Gdansk that was chopped up and sold off without his knowledge

Civilization, Flowers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Momentous proportions of contemporary life’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 14 December 2018 at 15:14

This selection of photographs from a new book beautifully documents modern life

Studionatalie – A New Edition to Hackney’s Thriving Creative Scene

By Advertising Feature | Monday 10 December 2018 at 15:32

Studionatalie is a Hackney-based design studio led by its founder Natalie Papageorgiadis, an interior designer and stylist. Here is a Q&A with her about the creative process and some of the studio’s projects

Dalston arts venues to unite for this year’s Winter Weekend

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 22 November 2018 at 14:41

Community-led event will see galleries open up to celebrate the area’s 150-year association with the arts

Felipe Baeza, Maureen Paley, exhibition review: ‘Rupture and regeneration’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 19 November 2018 at 12:49

The Mexican-born artist’s first solo UK show explores migration and mythology

Photomonth 2018: East london’s annual picture festival is back – and ‘more varied’ than ever

By Sarah Birch | Monday 22 October 2018 at 13:08

The two-month event, featuring over 50 exhibitions, offers audiences a ‘visual smorgasbord’

Street artist to stage ‘dream gig’ for lyric-inspired solo show

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 1 October 2018 at 13:08

Dscreet’s ‘Top 40 Covers’, to be exhibited at BSMT Gallery in Stoke Newington, is a tribute to his favourite songsmiths

Unreal Estates, Dalston, exhibition review: ‘Dreamy excitement and sheer dread’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 26 September 2018 at 12:05

Amanda Lwin’s immersive show, inside a working estate agency on Kingsland High Street, ‘feeds on house-moving emotions’

No Paine no gain: New exhibition to bring ‘feel-good factor’ to Homerton Hospital

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 13 September 2018 at 13:09

Neville Paine’s experimental landscapes and collages will brighten the walls of the Education Centre from October

‘Shaping the capital’: Local doors unlocked for Open House festival

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 September 2018 at 13:10

The world’s largest architecture event returns this month – giving the public a peak behind hundreds of keyholes

SPACE exploration: Art studios to open up for 50th anniversary

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 September 2018 at 10:10

More than 200 creatives across London will welcome the public into their workshops for a one-off weekend spectacular this month

Artist teams up with East End schoolchildren for new Whitechapel Gallery show

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 28 August 2018 at 10:49

Mikhail Karikis’ No Ordinary Protest is the gallery’s 10th children’s commission

Smile Please, Peer Gallery, exhibition review: ‘a refreshing take on modern urban life’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 24 August 2018 at 14:32

Simon English’s new solo show features never-before-seen sculptures made from objects picked up around London

Flowers Gallery to host John Loker retrospective to mark artist’s 80th birthday – 48 years after it put on his first solo show

By Max Eckersley | Monday 20 August 2018 at 16:30

Loker, along with David Hockney, was part of the so-called ‘Bradford Mafia’ – a group of artists who first rose to prominence in the 1960s

‘The scene in east London is a jungle’: Street artist speaks out after unveiling Clapton murals

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 14 August 2018 at 13:10

Giacomo ‘RUN’ Bufarini says people are often surprised his work is self-funded as street art becomes a ‘lucrative tourist attraction’

‘The whole community was a client!’: Hackney architects up for prestigious Stirling Prize for Jewish cemetery expansion

By Max Eckersley | Monday 30 July 2018 at 13:17

Waugh Thistleton co-founder talks to the Citizen about the nomination, how the project has given him a new outlook on burials, and what it’s like to live in a timber home

When we hear the words, ‘black man’, what comes to mind?

By Ekua McMorris | Sunday 29 July 2018 at 09:14

Ethnicity monitoring records something different: It does not relate to visible appearance but to people’s self image in relation to their own cultural origins (Met Police)

Lola Flash: ‘beauty for me is an idea of being proud and strong’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 25 July 2018 at 16:42

Herein lies the purpose of my work, to enable marginalized folk a way of seeing the glory of themselves