Ben Mortimer: ‘I want to preserve the block WhatsApp group and people doing things for their neighbours’
The local writer on his experience of lockdown, what it has meant to friends and neighbours, and why he’s ‘extremely glad’ for Victoria Park
Ben Mortimer
Jock McFadyen: ‘Painting is artifice, it’s art, and so is the made environment’
The Hackney-based artist, known for his landscapes of east London, on his upcoming turn as curator for the Royal Academy, his own style, and why he quite enjoys painting the same piece again and again