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Iconic Holborn Studios under threat again following combative council meeting

‘It’s ruined my Christmas with my children,’ says managing director as 7-year battle over studios set to continue

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Iconic Holborn Studios under threat again following combative council meeting

Hackney artists to feature at 2019’s London Art Fair

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney artists to feature at 2019’s London Art Fair

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

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

Author: Max Eckersley

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

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

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

Author: Sarah Birch

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

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

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

Author: Sarah Birch

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

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

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

Author: Sarah Birch

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

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

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

Author: Max Eckersley

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

Affordable Art Fair returns to Hampstead to champion the best in emerging & established creative talent

3D scans, the paintings of an ex-Premier League footballer and a modern take on the Chinese Terracotta Army will all feature at the four-day fair next month

Author: Hackney Citizen

(L) David by Stella Kapezanou. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 170 x 210cm. £3,900. (R) The Girl in Miu Miu by Stella Kapezanou. O

Wall power: Dalston teens paint mural around Benyon Estate building site

GCSE art students decorate hoardings with visions of ‘love and loss’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Wall power: Dalston teens paint mural around Benyon Estate building site

Gayhurst Community School has a pint-sized gallery

The primary school in London Fields has launched The Art Gallery, or #TAG

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hashtag art: Gayhurst's #TAG is Hackney's newest gallery. Photographs: Gayhurst Community School

East End exhibitions – five of the best for July

Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Detail from Russian in Venice I, 2005, Monotype, (c) Stephen Chambers, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

Top self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor

The 41-year old ‘unknown’ thought beating the likes of Tracey Emin to the Ruth Borchard Prize and its £10,000 winnings was “a practical joke” at first

Author: Hackney Citizen

A triumphant Benjamin Ogbebor, his family, and Dr Robert Travers (2nd from left.)