The 10-day Hackney Reimagining Local art week from June 12 to 22 is packed with public art, exhibitions, performances, walking tours and pop-up events at venues in Dalston, Homerton, De Beauvoir Town, Stoke Newington, Clapton, London Fields and Cambridge Heath.
Dalston’s Wilton Way Gallery presents artist YiMiao Shih’s keen eye for political and social issues using drawing, embroidery and animation.
It also hosts two artworks that blur abstraction and narrative: Lauren Bauer’s memory and identity, and Katie King’s drawings from ritual, folklore and environmental grief into reflection, myth and material memory.
La Bouche delicatessen in Broadway Market, London Fields, is displaying Cecilia Reeve’s iconic Moonlight Behind The Curtains painting.
London’s first residential design house, the four-storey On the Square in De Beauvoir Square, becomes a live platform for collectives including guerrilla-style printmaking pop-ups, live sound collages and community weaving sessions.
The venue also plays host to a Banner Bureau open workshop to create ‘protest-style banners’ about care, resistance, and joy, run Hackney textile artists. Emerging artists also share work-in-progress and invite open feedback in an experimental platform called Plus Public Crits.
Clapton’s Mad Atelier design studio in Lower Clapton Road displays a Lucy Muss painting of people rehearsing ballet.
Numbers Winery at Vyner Street in Cambridge Heath is putting on Rosanna Dean’s artwork of religious iconography, myth and the human body through paintings and performance art.
Mackintosh Lane in Homerton is the scene for dance choreographer Shelley Lasica redefining her role in visual art in diverse settings such as galleries and public spaces, with a performance on June 21.
De Beauvoir Town’s Scolt Head pub in Culford Road plays host to composer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev and to film-maker Charlotte Ginsborg.
The list of Hackney Arts Week venues includes Abney Park café, the Black House at Wilton Way, La Bouche, Canal Boat Contemporary, The Cannery, the Clarence Tavern, Forno, Fran’s, Findlay Properties, Mackintosh Lane, Mad Atelier, Numbers Winery, On the Square, Ombra, Retrouvé, Street Road Artists Space, the Scolt Head, Toppers, Wilton Way Deli and Wilton Way Gallery.
