Sarah Birch - Hackney Citizen (Page 14)

Anna Laurini: Stillness Speaks, The Old Bank Vault, exhibition review: ‘Raw voluptuousness and urban chic’

The street artist’s solo show at the Hackney Road gallery features her signature faces with their ‘bold magenta lips and alluring eyes’

By Sarah Birch

/ 14 Oct 2019

Anna Laurini: Stillness Speaks, The Old Bank Vault, exhibition review: ‘Raw voluptuousness and urban chic’

Anna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Bringing sensuality to politics and politics to art’

This retrospective of the Italian-Brazilian artist covers her resistance-themed work of the 60s and 70s to more personal creations from the past 30 years

By Sarah Birch

/ 1 Oct 2019

Anna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Bringing sensuality to politics and politics to art’

Lina Iris Viktor, Autograph ABP, exhibition review: ‘An assertive reinvention of cultural identity’

The Liberian-British artist’s first major solo show in the UK ‘hijacks demeaning portrayals of African identity’

By Sarah Birch

/ 30 Sep 2019

Lina Iris Viktor, Autograph ABP, exhibition review: ‘An assertive reinvention of cultural identity’

The Doll Factory, Elizabeth Macneal, book review: ‘Dark thriller set in Victorian-era Hackney’

The East End author’s fast-paced debut novel ‘haunts the mind long after the pages are closed’

By Sarah Birch

/ 26 Sep 2019

The Doll Factory, Elizabeth Macneal, book review: ‘Dark thriller set in Victorian-era Hackney’

‘Alternately sombre and exuberant’: All of Me at the Yard Theatre – review

‘A wide-ranging reflection on fear, hope, pain, death and the meaning or lack of meaning of life’

By Sarah Birch

/ 19 Sep 2019

Ridley Road Market, Tamara Stoll, book review: ‘Eight-year labour of love that captures the soul of a Hackney institution’

This book-in-the-making by photographer Tamara Stoll tells the story of the market, in aid of the Save Ridley Road campaign

By Sarah Birch

/ 27 Aug 2019

Ridley Road Market, Tamara Stoll, book review: ‘Eight-year labour of love that captures the soul of a Hackney institution’

The Time Of Our Lies, Park Theatre: ‘Compelling – if you’re of the right mindset’

Bianca Bagatourian’s play about the life and work of American intellectual Howard Zinn is a ‘history lesson with sonorous contemporary relevance’

By Sarah Birch

/ 6 Aug 2019

The Time Of Our Lies, Park Theatre: ‘Compelling – if you’re of the right mindset’

Wrestling the Walrus, Yard Theatre: ‘The pain and joy of the dementia experience’

This award-winning play about the life of someone with declining cognitive powers is ‘hugely compelling’

By Sarah Birch

/ 17 Jul 2019

Wrestling the Walrus, Yard Theatre: ‘The pain and joy of the dementia experience’

Che si può fare, Helen Cammock, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Lost, hidden voices’

The Turner Prize-nominated artist’s multimedia solo show offers ‘stories of resilience in the face of oppression’

By Sarah Birch

/ 4 Jul 2019

Che si può fare, Helen Cammock, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Lost, hidden voices’

So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron, Five Leaves: ‘A resurrection from years of neglect’

This collection of essays examines the writer, who spent his formative years in Hackney, from a variety of angles

By Sarah Birch

/ 28 Jun 2019

So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron, Five Leaves: ‘A resurrection from years of neglect’

Lee Krasner: Living in Colour, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Smorgasbords of shape, movement and colour’

Nearly 100 works by the late American artist, who ‘came into her own’ following the death of husband Jackson Pollock, are on display in a major retrospective spanning her 50-year career

By Sarah Birch

/ 31 May 2019

Lee Krasner: Living in Colour, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Smorgasbords of shape, movement and colour’

The East End in Colour, 1980-1990, Tim Brown, book review: ‘A rich glimpse of a time gone by’

Former tube driver Tim Brown’s photographs are a ‘thought-provoking reminder of just how fast East London has changed’

By Sarah Birch

/ 28 May 2019

The East End in Colour, 1980-1990, Tim Brown, book review: ‘A rich glimpse of a time gone by’