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Posts Tagged ‘art’

Hackney Marshes’ ‘Talking Trees’ mystery solved

By Patrick Cardwell | Thursday 26 March 2026 at 15:57

Visitors to the Hackney Marshes have been delighted in recent weeks by an informal art trail which has sprung up their, but the creator behind the project had, until now, remained anonymous

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‘We need to create’ — artist launches workshop series to get people off phones

By Elspeth Rees | Monday 9 February 2026 at 08:48
Emily Tracy

Artist Emily Tracy believes creativity can be the perfect outlet to curb phone addiction

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I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies review – ‘An exhibition to which we can well relate’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 6 November 2025 at 11:44

‘Fragmented backgrounds embroider our lives in lovely ways’

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Palimpsest review – ‘Unearthing is not always pleasant’

By Julia Silverberg | Thursday 6 November 2025 at 11:34

Anastasia Tribambuka’s work interrogates the past

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Clapton ‘eyesore’ unrecognisable as vibrant new mural celebrates ‘nature and community spirit’

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 5 November 2025 at 15:22
Mural in Lower Clapton

The mural has become the ‘centrepiece’ of a once ‘unloved’ part of Lower Clapton, according to residents.

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Candice Lin review – ‘These fabulations may be familiar to those of us who wince at the triviality of our own lives’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 14:21
Candice Lin, ghosti, 2025.

Behold an allegorical landscape at the Whitechapel Gallery

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Frank Watson review – ‘recounting the many minor mysteries of fraying English life in tucked-away spots’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 13:24
Soundings

His photographs walk the fine line between the banal and the sublime

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A takeaway of ideas – artist Ling Tan’s Low Carbon Chinatown

By Megan Khan | Monday 20 October 2025 at 22:22
Ling Tan

Ingredients for change on show at climate exhibition

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Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Escape the headlines you will not’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 10:20

The latest pairing of modern art with the Italian sculptor’s work explores ‘the various ways the human form can come to harm’

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Outsider Bodies: Experience Berlin’s DIY scene in your neighbour’s living room

By Julia Silverberg | Thursday 21 August 2025 at 17:15

More than 90 artists are set to deliver an ‘experiential showcase’ in Stoke Newington from next month

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V&A East teases opening of David Bowie Centre – featuring an archive of more than 90,000 objects

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 11 July 2025 at 10:44

Visitors will be able to peruse the items and guest-curated displays when the Centre opens in September

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Fashion’s obsession with decay spearheads major exhibition at the Barbican

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 7 July 2025 at 12:53

Dirty Looks, which features more than 100 garments from the past 50 years, chronicles the industry’s infatuation with grime

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Local artist who ‘celebrates Hackney life’ set for Springfield House show

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 13 June 2025 at 12:48

Cath Pater-Lancucki’s paintings will be on display from next week until September

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Clapton Art Market returns for second year to ‘champion neighbourhood’s creativity’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 June 2025 at 14:18

The Round Chapel’s Old School Rooms will host the event next Thursday, with funds being raised for community projects

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Hamad Butt: Apprehensions, Whitechapel Gallery, exhibition review: ‘A salutary reminder’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 4 June 2025 at 08:07

The artist, who died of AIDS in 1994 aged just 32, takes the ‘hazards of deadly disease as a central focus’

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‘Art for the people’: How Dalston’s enduring peace mural captured a community

By Josef Steen | Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:11

Hackney History Festival revisits radical, melancholy chronicle of iconic artwork never seen by its author

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V&A East Storehouse to open this weekend – with a ‘huge trove’ of treasures to comb through

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 29 May 2025 at 14:38

The Citizen was given a peek inside the museum’s huge depository, which members of the public can peruse from 31 May

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Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘A temporal and cultural journey’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 7 May 2025 at 12:20

The first in a trio of shows combining the work of sculptor Alberto Giacomettit with that of other artists ‘engages thoughtfully with what we are made of’

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Artist embraces unease of being photographed in Shoreditch exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 11:55

Dianne Minnicucci’s series of portraits capture and revel in the discomfort of being in front of the camera

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Hand-woven roundel unveiled at Hackney Downs station to mark new Weaver line

By Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 20 January 2025 at 22:06
The Weaver line roundel at Hackney Downs station

The Weaver line name ‘celebrates the historical significance of textile industries and communities’ in areas such as Hackney

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