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‘Hammers to brushes, metal to paint’: Seven local artists celebrate history of former factory in Hackney Wick

The pieces at Stone Studios feature reminders of the site’s former use as a metalworks

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Hammers to brushes, metal to paint’: Seven local artists celebrate history of former factory in Hackney Wick

Unmasked, Perishable Rush, BSMT Space, exhibition review: ‘Smiles and scars in evocative solo show’

The Dutch street artist has taken his work off walls across Europe for his first UK gallery outing in Dalston

Author: Sarah Birch

Unmasked, Perishable Rush, BSMT Space, exhibition review: ‘Smiles and scars in evocative solo show’

Local street artist pays homage to Hackney Wick’s past and present for London Mural Festival

Artwork by Busk, whose studio is nearby, includes a nod to the Clarnico Sweet Factory that once stood in the area

Author: Hackney Citizen

Local street artist pays homage to Hackney Wick’s past and present for London Mural Festival

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

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’

Author: Sarah Birch

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

Stik’s community mural ‘finally’ back in Poland after long tug-of-war with London gallery

The world-famous Hackney street artist explains why he had to destroy a second mural created on the same trip to Gdansk in 2011

Author: Hackney Citizen

Stik’s community mural ‘finally’ back in Poland after long tug-of-war with London gallery

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

‘A chance to recalibrate’: Street art legend Ben Eine on his ‘reflective’ new solo show in Whitechapel

Eine, whose signature New Circus lettering can be found all over east London, says a move into sculpture has been ‘challenging’

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘A chance to recalibrate’: Street art legend Ben Eine on his ‘reflective’ new solo show in Whitechapel

‘The scene in east London is a jungle’: Street artist speaks out after unveiling Clapton murals

Giacomo ‘RUN’ Bufarini says people are often surprised his work is self-funded as street art becomes a ‘lucrative tourist attraction’

Author: Max Eckersley

‘The scene in east London is a jungle’: Street artist speaks out after unveiling Clapton murals

Artist Stik supports junior doctors’ strike at Homerton Hospital

‘The NHS is very vulnerable – we need to look after it, because it looks after us.’

Author: Adam Barnett

Artist Stik (centre) with protesters outside Homerton Hospital. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

Stik's missing 'community mural' discovered on sale in West London

Street artist furious over ‘destruction and commercial exploitation’ of mural painted with local children in Polish city of Gdansk

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘That’s me in the painting’ – how Stik became a street art icon

His trademark figures have become part of the furniture in East London. Now a new book charts the evolution of Stik’s unique, highly politicised style The post ‘That’s me in the painting’ – how Stik became a street art icon [http://www.eastendreview.co.uk/2015/09/08/stik-new-book/] appeared first o

Author: Hackney Citizen