Skip to content
Hackney Citizen
  • Sign up to our free newsletter
  • Digital Edition
  • Get in touch
  • About us

Art & Design

Street artists unveil free poster gallery in Finsbury Park dedicated to frontline workers

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 28 May 2020 at 13:48

Display on The Arts Building is part of the Posters for the People campaign, which is raising money for a variety of charities

Read More

Poetry: Car Sick by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 11 May 2020 at 21:37

The award-winning playwright finds herself at the mercy of a driver with a death wish as she tries to make sense of Boris Johnson’s latest speech

Read More

Poetry: Far out at sea by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 1 May 2020 at 22:40

The award-winning local playwright on how ‘we must find new ways to navigate the world’

Read More

Small Talk, My Animal, online exhibition review: ‘A return to the root of human existence’

By Alice Jones | Wednesday 29 April 2020 at 18:47

Curator and artist Molly Morphew’s lockdown-friendly, multimedia show ‘strips away the artifice’ of modern life

Read More

Poetry: Kitchen Sill Radio by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 27 April 2020 at 21:20

The award-winning local playwright on how, in a crisis, even everyday comforts can take on a new meaning

Read More

Art in the time of coronavirus: The best of London’s galleries – online

By Alice Jones | Friday 24 April 2020 at 18:00

Alice Jones picks out the crème de la crème of the capital’s virtual exhibitions

Read More

Poetry: London by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 22 April 2020 at 21:04

The award-winning local playwright on a sleeping city

Read More

Poetry: The small things by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 April 2020 at 19:31

The award-winning local playwright on appreciating life’s little touches

Read More

Poetry: The Saved by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 15 April 2020 at 11:50

The award-winning local playwright on the lockdown’s environmental silver lining, and the need to ‘carry the good change through’

Read More

Comic: Lockdown Diary (part 1) by Francisco de la Mora

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 13 April 2020 at 12:01

The local illustrator recreates Samuel Pepys’ famous diary in the age of Covid-19

Read More

Poetry: NHS (thank you) by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 10 April 2020 at 09:58

The award-winning local playwright pays tribute to the nation’s health workers

Read More

Poetry: Our Children by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 April 2020 at 09:16

The award-winning playwright wonders how our kids will remember the pandemic

Read More

‘Much needed visual tonic’: Homerton Hospital shares new artworks by brain injury patients

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 6 April 2020 at 20:54

Curator Shaun Caton hopes the recently made collages will give the borough a ‘morale boost’ at a ‘challenging time for all’

Read More

Poetry: Cherry Tree by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 3 April 2020 at 08:52

The award-winning local playwright on a Spring ‘snatched away’

Read More

Poetry: Brave New World by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 31 March 2020 at 21:03

The award-winning local playwright on our ‘utterly changed’ lives, with ‘days both full and empty’

Read More

Poetry: Not even… by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 27 March 2020 at 19:56

The award-winning local playwright on life in lockdown

Read More

Poetry: Perfect Storm by Tamara von Werthern

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 25 March 2020 at 15:07

The award-winning local playwright shares her intimate response to the coronavirus crisis

Read More

More than 60 street artists sign up for Shoreditch exhibition inspired by Ben Eine’s Big Issue takeover

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 March 2020 at 15:35

Jealous Gallery to host two-week display featuring works included in Eine’s new guest edition of the iconic magazine

Read More

Sharif Persaud: Have You Ever Had, Autograph ABP: ‘Fake sneezing, gangrene – a fascination with the corporeal’

By Sarah Birch | Saturday 29 February 2020 at 20:58

The autistic artist’s first solo show is the revealing culmination of a three-year project on neurodiversity

Read More

Radical Figures, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Anxious interrogation of the 21st-century condition’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 17 February 2020 at 14:26

A collection of works by ten contemporary painters explores themes such as gender discrimination, racism, violence and dislocation

Read More
« Newer Posts
Older Posts »
Hackney Citizen does not take responsibility for any comments posted on this site. Hackney Citizen is operated by Citizen News & Media Limited - Terms and Conditions. Citizen News & Media Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. No.06426082. Registered Office: Citizen News & Media Limited, 9 Perseverance Works, 38 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DD. The Hackney Citizen® is a registered trademark © 2020 Citizen News & Media Limited.
© 2024 Citizen News & Media Limited