Mercston: debut album and the camaraderie of Bow’s grime scene
Mercston is preparing to drop a debut album 15 years in the making. He has been at the heart of
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Arts & artists
Luminor Sign Co paints Time Out’s Christmas cover
You may have spotted this week’s Time Out London magazine when you were out and about in London – perhaps
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Gus Casely-Hayford selected as first director of V&A East
Augustus Casely-Hayford, writer and broadcaster, current director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington US and part
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Applications open for Poplar Works fashion studios
Applications are now open for more than 40 studios in Poplar Works, a workspace project designed to support a new
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‘Shopfronts of London’ by Eleanor Crow – book review
We’re big fans of Eleanor Crow. Her watercolour paintings of classic London shopfronts capture the jumbled beauty of city life
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Dav Stewart on his ‘A Portrait of Roman Road’ photography project
Regulars down the Roman will have noticed a chap wandering around with a big blocky camera taking pictures of people.
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Bex Shaw’s drawings of Roman Road [GALLERY]
Bex Shaw has lived in Bow for 10 years and immortalised many of the area’s shop fronts with her artwork.
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Q&A with artist Camilla Brendon about her Hertford Union Canal residency
Camilla Brendon is an artist currently in residence at Chisenhale Studios. Her project, which focuses on materials and plant life
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Bow playwright Simon Stephens on East London, the gentrification of bacon sarnies, and that Hot Priest
If Simon Stephens was a biscuit he would probably be a Wagon Wheel. He didn’t arrive at this conclusion lightly,
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‘Raw Materials: Plastics’ exhibition explores the invention of plastic in East London
Not many people know that plastic was invented right here in East London. Well, it was, and Bow Arts has
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The tattoo studios of Roman Road
The art of the tattoo is an ancient one, and as embedded into East End culture as ink in skin.
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The shutter art of Roman Road [GALLERY]
You see a different side to Roman Road at night. When the market stalls have been packed away and the
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