Hackney WickED to hold mini-festival
Expect art, sand castles and ice cream at this two-day showcase at Red Market in Shoreditch later this month
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Take a byte – Eat All You Can
HaYoung Kim’s exhibition at Hoxton Art Gallery explores the way we consume technology
Sweet Revenge – Sweet Toof solo show at The Colour Works
Hackney Wick provides the location for an exhibition of grinning graffiti this month
Hackney galleries’ Olympic art attack
Away from the official Cultural Olympiad, East London artists are expressing more ambivalent viewpoints on the impact of the Games
Frank Laws – London Bits
Hackney artist’s social housing paintings reveal beauty in the mundane as he explores his mixed feelings about the borough’s changing face
Going nowhere – the East End art scene
Despite rumours of the death of the local art scene, it is still very much alive and well
Shoreditch Stories – review
Discover portrayals of the everyday at a GP surgery in Shoreditch
Dio Lau – Confession in Water
Artist Dio Lau’s debut solo exhibition at the Book Club in Shoreditch explores the dark corners of the human psyche
Get Carta – the art of mapping
Eight artists explore community, place, and nature at the Karin Janssen Project Space in Well Street
Facing Power and Beauty
Jasper Joffe contrasts portraits of brutal dictators and images of Hollywood actresses at Rove Gallery in Hoxton
Place Not Found
This exhibition at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery explores the shifting nature of an rapidly changing area through the eyes of Korean artists
Olympic Park’s former artist in residence to deal with disillusionment
Neville Gabie’s next project will ‘explore how far away we might have moved from the original spirit of the Games’
Et Cetera – remarkable art from mundane materials
An exhibition at Hoxton Art Gallery finds unexpected beauty and fascination in the often-ignored debris of city life
Hackney artists’ studios to open at former Matchbox factory
The Matchmakers Wharf development in Homerton offers affordable purpose-built studios to non-commercial artists
Mythical creatures take over the King’s Land
Artist Nazir Tanbouli creates murals of mythical creatures on the Kingsland Estate in Haggerston