Stik - Hackney Citizen

STIK print raises over £4,000 for the Homerton

The Hackney artist’s signed Holding Hands set sold at Bonhams, with the full proceeds going to the hospital where, as he put it, much of Hackney was born

Author: Hackney Citizen

STIK print raises over £4,000 for the Homerton

‘Chaos and energy’: Hackney artist Stik donates work to Southbank Centre to fund free workshops for children

Move follows a successful partnership earlier this year that saw children create ‘stamps’ of the artist’s iconic stick figures

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Chaos and energy’: Hackney artist Stik donates work to Southbank Centre to fund free workshops for children

Reflections on 2020

Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley recounts her personal experience of events in Hackney during one of the most tumultuous years in living memory

Author: Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley

Police investigating theft of thousands of Stik prints intended as ‘gifts for Hackney residents’

Detectives say posters appear to have been stolen ‘somewhere along the supply and distribution chain’ for Town Hall newspaper Hackney Today

Author: Hackney Citizen

Police investigating theft of thousands of Stik prints intended as ‘gifts for Hackney residents’

Stik hoping to raise £120k at auction to fund sculptures by local artists

A maquette of the Hackney street art star’s first public artwork, unveiled in Hoxton last month, to go on sale at Christie’s tomorrow

Author: Hackney Citizen

Stik hoping to raise £120k at auction to fund sculptures by local artists

Town Hall unveils first public sculpture by Hackney artist Stik in Hoxton Square

Four-metre-tall ‘Holding Hands’ is the result of a years-long collaboration between the council and the world-renowned street artist

Author: Hackney Citizen

Town Hall unveils first public sculpture by Hackney artist Stik in Hoxton Square

Three stolen Stik sculptures worth £300k returned to Dalston’s Curve Garden

The works, taken in a night-time raid last November, were dropped off by a concerned art collector in June

Author: Hackney Citizen

Three stolen Stik sculptures worth £300k returned to Dalston’s Curve Garden

‘History in the making’: Hackney artist’s Brexit gift ‘delightfully received’ by Prime Minister Theresa May

Kevin Gill, who counts Barack Obama as a fan, sent a print of his painting ‘The Brexit Note’, featuring politicians past and present, to Number 10

Author: Max Eckersley

‘History in the making’: Hackney artist’s Brexit gift ‘delightfully received’ by Prime Minister Theresa May

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

Stik sculpture fetches staggering £150k for homelessness charity

The renowned street artist’s plywood figure sold for ten times its guide price at auction last month

Author: Hackney Citizen

Stik sculpture fetches staggering £150k for homelessness charity

Stik sculpture to take Pride of place in Hoxton park

Holding Hands, a 4m tall piece based on the artist’s trademark stick figures and famous LGBTQI+ Pride banner, will be coming to Hoxton Square later this year

Author: Andrew Barnes

Intimacy: a mock-up of how Holding Hands will look once erected. Photograph: Hackney Council

Pride in your image: young and old LGBTQI+ locals come together for a pair of artistic Hackney Museum exhibits

Out and About and From Bedroom to Battleground will be open in time for LGBT History Month, after the Council spent a year collecting historical testimony and artefacts from the community

Author: Andrew Barnes

Badges of honour: Project Indigo worked with artist Liv Wynter to make their voices heard. Photograph: Hackney Council