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
Art & Design
Alice in Hackneyland goes west
The Wick-based art collective takes its signature flair to Twickenham for a major six-month exhibition celebrating the 300-year history of Orleans House Gallery’s lavish Octagon Room
Local art gallery’s new show features 16 artists’ responses to the Covid crisis
Outside In, set across two locations in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, explores the impact of the pandemic through a variety of work created during lockdown
Hackney artist teams up with local schoolchildren to create 30-foot playground mural
Coco Lom recently unveiled the bold artwork at Newport School in Leyton after workshopping ideas with Year 4 pupils
‘We did not stop creating’: Dalston art gallery emerges from lockdown with fittingly titled show ‘HOPE’
BSMT Space on Kingsland Road will reopen with artist Dave Towers’ bold typography on show – a ‘playful take on our new normal’
Hackney could be a big draw for first ever London Mural Festival
Borough expected to feature heavily in September’s month-long celebration, which will see more than 150 artists ‘brighten up’ the capital
Public notice, exhibition review: ‘Impressive collection in the warp and weft of our everyday lives’
Curators Kira Wainstein and Holly Pollard bring the work of 18 emerging artists to shop windows across East London
Free pop-up arts festival in Shoreditch hopes to ‘reconnect audiences with grassroots talent’
The Sunday Art Club will put on live theatre, music and art on 30 August and 27 September – in an outdoor, Covid-safe setting
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Powerful aesthetic and concept’
The Nigerian-American artist’s first UK show imagines a prehistoric world in which gender expectations are reversed
Unstilled Life: Artist Animations 1980-2020, Tintype Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Oneiric and thought-provoking’
The local venue presents 13 animated shorts, available online right now, which are ‘well worth a watch’
Hackney artist reveals long-term effects of coronavirus with Instagram diary
Monique Jackson is documenting her experience in a unique way to raise awareness of Covid’s sometimes lingering impact and to push for more support for health workers
Street artist brings some colour back to Shoreditch as borough slowly opens up
World-renowned artist Nerone’s ‘colourful, dreamlike flowers’ on Chance Street celebrate the vibrancy of city life
Neurodiverse artists star in ‘compelling’ online photography exhibition
Leon Foggitt’s portraits for Submit to Love, a programme run by brain injury charity Headway East London, have been shared by Shoreditch gallery Autograph ABP
Local galleries that you can enjoy without booking in advance
A handy list of places where the ‘pleasure of a casual visit’ to an exhibition can still be found
African artworks lost in Shoreditch church basement for 70 years go on display
A free exhibition at the Theatre Courtyard showcases rare early paintings and drawings by more than 40 Zimbabwean artists
‘Hackney is London’s Springfield’: Meet the Simpsons-inspired animator telling stories in stop-motion
Lamide Olusegun is hoping to raise enough money to set up a studio in the borough to rival the industry’s biggest names