2019: A Space odyssey
Hackney stalwart Space Studios’ Mare Street gallery is relocating to Ilford in the autumn. The charity’s chief exec Anna Harding talks about the move, and picks out her personal highlights from the past 16 years
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SPACE exploration: Art studios to open up for 50th anniversary
More than 200 creatives across London will welcome the public into their workshops for a one-off weekend spectacular this month
Comic art and illustration festival returns to Round Chapel to celebrate industry’s “most exciting talent”
ELCAF 2018 will feature an international line-up of artists showcasing their work with exhibitions, discussions and workshops
SPACE is the place: we delve into a new book celebrating 50 years of the artistic engine of East London
SPACE Studios is the subject of a comprehensive new book of essays and history – we throw the spotlight on 10 Martello Street, their Mare Street hub
Through time and SPACE: new time-travelling art show brings history of the Mare Street studios to life
‘We were astounded that each and every participant actually had an experience of entering into another reality,’ say creators J&K
Basqu-ing in glory: ex-BSix student wins prize for graffiti-influenced film
Djofry Makumbu claimed this year’s Alumno/SPACE Studios Bursary Award for his colourful piece of Basquiat-riffing stop-motion animation, Dreams
Hackney film talent features in new Playback exhibition
Visitors to SPACE Studios between 13-22 July can flick between films on specially mounted touch screens, each a picture from the perspective of over 200 16-24 year-olds
Visions Festival nearly doubles its 2017 line-up as new acts announced
Amber Arcades, Night Flowers and Wolf Eyes among those joining headliners like Liars, Sophie and Jenny Hval at the multi-venue festival in August
Titbits – upstairs, downstairs with the Greens and a skeleton-staffed boozer
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Hackney playwright details foster care experience in debut play
Four Paintings combines art and performance to explore the experience of growing up in care
Space Studios is 'reclaiming the future' from developers
A banner covering the facade of the Mare Street arts organisation is part of an exhibition and installation that invites us to ask what the future looks like
Space Studios is ‘reclaiming the future’ from developers
A banner covering the facade of the Mare Street arts organisation is part of an exhibition and installation that invites us to ask what the future looks like
Dance of death on London Fields mourns state of the arts
Choreographer Florence Peake creates a performance using the old Celtic practice of ‘keening’ to lament the state of modern culture
How a video camera became a weapon for feminists
The Sony Portapak gave ordinary artists the ability to use video for the first time and a new exhibition shows how it became a potent tool for French feminist groups of the 1970s
Making of a ‘metamentary’ – Rough Cut by Jamie Shovlin
Hackney artist shoots film about the making of a fictional slasher film
Bread Show – review
Artists at Space Studios use their loaf with exhibition of bread sculptures