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Art and artists

A still from Kat Anderson's film which won the East London Art Prize 2023.
Art and artists Cultural heritage Local 

Winner of £15,000 East London Art Prize announced at Bow Arts’ shortlist exhibition

January 23, 2023January 26, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Out of more than 650 submissions, Kat Anderson’s film installation drawing on the racism of public health and police institutions

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Screen print of shops and houses on Mile End Road.
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Artist Ali Smith: Printing East London’s urban landscape

January 4, 2023January 19, 2023 Polly Nash 2 Comments Features, Photoessays

Canal boats, cranes and graffiti: Everyday East End scenes through a local printmaker’s eyes.  Most people walking down Mile End

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Tufayel Ahmed holding a copy of his new book, This Way Out.
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‘This Way Out’: East End author Tufayel Ahmed on growing up gay in the Bengali community

June 8, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

Bengali author Tufayel Ahmed speaks about the challenges of growing up gay in the 1990s and how it led to

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A group of people in a room looking at art on white walls
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Bow Arts launches East London Art Prize

May 27, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments News

Bow Arts has teamed up with cultural heavyweights including UCL East, The Line and V&A East to launch the new

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Artist Kay Kanté: Swapping law books for canvases

May 13, 2022December 13, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 0 Comments Features

Kay Kanté’s ordinary scene paintings of the area are being shown at The Brady Art Gallery, and has led her

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Painting of the Roman Road at night by Jock McFadyen
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Jock McFadyen: the ever-changing East End

March 17, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

Jock McFayden’s vistas of the East End are on display at the Royal Academy, depicting the transformation of our neighbourhood’s

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Malplaquet House at night, Mile End, East London
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Artist Mira Connolly: Colouring in Bow

March 9, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments Features

We spoke to artist Mira Connolly on capturing Bow at night and why working with less colour enhances her art.

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Out of the Ashes book cover by Vicky Newman
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Out of the Ashes by Vicky Newham book review

December 2, 2021December 14, 2022 Tabitha Potts 0 Comments Reviews

Themes of immigration, gentrification and belonging are central to Vicky Newham’s second book featuring Detective Inspector Maya Rahman. ‘Out of

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Cover of The Blitz Bus by Glen Blackwell.
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The Blitz Bus by Glen Blackwell book review

November 11, 2021December 14, 2022 Oyin Osin 0 Comments Reviews

We’ve enlisted the help of four local school children to unpack the fictional world of 1940’s wartime Britain as portrayed

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The Nature Seed by Lucy Jones and Kenneth Greenway
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Book review: ‘The Nature Seed’ by Lucy Jones and Kenneth Greenway

November 3, 2021December 14, 2022 Citizen Journalist 0 Comments Reviews

With help from The Nature Seed, our book reviewer Helen Simms discovers the joy of looking, connecting, and bonding with

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Front cover of The Graves of Whitechapel book, written by Claire Evans.
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Book review: ‘The Graves of Whitechapel’ by Claire Evans

October 7, 2021December 14, 2022 Tabitha Potts 0 Comments Reviews

Our book reviewer Tabitha Potts delves into The Graves of Whitechapel, a historical crime thriller that follows a barrister’s intricate

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Regeneration Songs book cover
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Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London, Book review

September 7, 2021December 14, 2022 Anna Lamche 0 Comments Reviews

A scorching collection of essays, Regeneration Songs is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand their changing city. Moving through

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