Hackney WickED 2019 Part Two, July 28th 2019 – Part One is here – You see, you won’t find the Spontaneous things now, there aren’t the big outside installations of the ambitious exhibitions or dens popping up in yards or bands playing on stages set up in the street, (or raves on the road blocking…
Who We Are, opening night, Hackney Wicked, July 2019 – There are so many conflicting thoughts in terms of Hackney Wick and the tenth annual Hackney WickEd weekend, of course it should still be happening, of course it can’t be allowed to just fade away and of course it has to evolve as the destruction…
Hackney WickED Ten happens this weekend, a whole load of open artists studios, shows, art events, exhibitions from Friday July 26th until Sunday July 29th. Hackney Wick has drastically changed over the last ten years and especially the last four or five, actually it drastically changes on a monthly basis now, wasn’t there a big…
Stour Space, that rather pro-actively run artist-friendly space, art gallery, meeting place and more over there smack bang in the middle of all the changes, the social cleansing and destruction of Hackney Wick, are fund-raising. Right now it feels more important than ever that we should have art spaces and community places like Stour Space,…
A quick caveat, a topnote rather than just a footnote. We see the Telford Homes sponsored #WickWednesday / Creative Wick people are sharing this piece on their social media, it was in fact the only thing we could find happened on the much hyped Wick Wednesday evening, indeed, do read this piece on what…
We’ve all seen the social media hype, the glossy boards by the fancy new Hackney Wick overground station, the promo videos on Facebook and such, but what is Wick Wednesday? What’s all that about? Whoops, forgot the hashtag there, mustn’t forget the hashtag, whole marketing teams will have been in meetings for days deciding on…
Day two and a bit and on with the poking about in the art spaces of East London and some kind of notion of writing down the adventures of a whole week, well that was the idea, tales of giant hundred foot tall flame throwing spiders in Hackney Wick as another building comes down and…
Where is the art? Where is the heart? Are we slipping? Do we care? Almost a week since we last wrote about a painting or a performance or an exciting piece of art, a little longer since we last wrote about a actual show we had been to. We are still going and checking out shows,…
So we’re walking down the Hackney Road, coming back from the Semi Skimmed opening amongst other things, art-dropping, well carefully placing, these things are never dropped, always carefully placed, we’re walking home, minding our own business when without warning, a metal attack, it struck me like a Sledgehammer, or something like that, “Oi! Are…
Five more art things, five more recommendations, five things that have been brought to our attention, five things we feel are worth bringing to your attention, your five. Been a busy few weeks here with the coverage of the excellent open studio events at Chisenhale Art Space and the Martello Street opening, that and putting…
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