Selected artists
Alex Booker is a Hackney-based printmaker working in woodcut, exploring bold carved marks and process. He also runs practical, accessible workshops introducing the fundamentals of printmaking.
Alex Booker
Amelia Troubridge is a London-born photographer based in Hackney. Her work spans documentary and editorial, from nightlife to conflict, published in Vogue, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
Amelia Troubridge
Anne McCloy is a Hackney-based artist and Goldsmiths MFA graduate working across painting, poetry and performance, exploring mythology, politics and storytelling through interdisciplinary practice.
Anne McCloy
Annie Frost Nicholson is a London-based artist recognised by the John Moores Painting Prize. Her multidisciplinary practice explores memory, storytelling and shared experience through large-scale, participatory works.
Annie Frost Nicholson
David Corio is a legendary London-born music photographer renowned for his extraordinary archive spanning reggae, Black music, punk, rock, and global music culture.
David Corio
Caroline McCambridge is an artist and curator working across sculptural assemblage and expanded painting, using domestic materials to explore balance, tension and care.
Caroline McCambridge
Louisa Tan
Louisa Tan is a London-based “Punk Joy” artist exploring joy as resistance, creating playful works and public projects that invite connection, curiosity and seeing the everyday differently.
Holly-Anne Buck (Collagism™) is a multimedia artist transforming everyday spaces into vivid, surreal collage worlds, blending physical and digital realms through print, performance and street interventions.
Collagism™
Cécile Emmanuelle Borra (CUNTINA COUTURE) is an artist exploring female desire, reworking visual culture to challenge the gaze, power and how bodies are shaped and consumed.
CUNTINA COUTURE
David Hughes is a photographer working across fashion and still life, creating elegant, conceptually rich images informed by photographic history, editorial culture and contemporary visual language.
David Hughes
Davies, Monaghan & Klein are a London-based collaborative practice creating immersive environments between sculpture and cinema, exploring social and political structures through filmic, constructed installation spaces.
Davies Monaghan Klein
Emily Tracy is a Hackney-based artist working across collage, installation and socially engaged practice, reworking found materials to explore place, memory and urban-ecological landscapes.
Emily Tracy
Emma Niamh Turpin is a Hackney-based painter exploring the female experience and mind-body connection through layered, textured works moving between abstraction and figuration.
Emma Turpin
Francesca Van Haverbeke
Francesca Van Haverbeke is a London-based Belgian artist working across drawing, painting and sculpture, creating tactile, abstracted forms inspired by folklore, observation and visual storytelling.
Gabriel Prokofiev
Gabriel Prokofiev is a London-based composer working across classical and electronic music, blending orchestral forms with underground club culture through performance, composition and live electronics.
GG the Illustrator
GG the Illustrator is a London-based illustrator creating an ongoing visual archive of London estates, capturing everyday life, architecture and communities often overlooked or displaced.
Gianluca Bonomo is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker creating installations, photographic and video works often exploring the movement of bodies in poetic, cinematic environments.
Gianluca Bonomo
Giles Edwards is a London-based photographer documenting everyday life in East and South London, building a 15-year archive of street photography across the city.
Giles Edwards
Coco Lom is a Hackney-based artist and designer creating bold, colourful work across murals, design and workshops, celebrating play, pattern and the overlooked details of everyday life.
Coco Lom
Hayley Reynolds-MacLean is a Hackney-based artist exploring matrescence and motherhood through textured painting, embracing imperfection, material fragility and emotionally charged, process-led surfaces.
Hayley Reynolds Maclean
A Place at the Table
A Place at the Table is a collaborative ceramic installation by Henny Beaumont and Brigit Connolly, created with learning-disabled artists exploring inclusion, shared space and collective making.
Hervé Constant is a French-London-based artist working across video, photography and sound, exploring perception, memory and place through interdisciplinary and time-based practice.
Herve Constant
Martine Charalambou
Martine Charalambou is an artist, painter and photographer running PomegranART workshops, creating calm, colour-led spaces that encourage focus, creativity and making by hand.
Cecilia Reeve is an artist working across animation and painting, creating oneiric narratives that explore contemplation, intimacy and emotional connection.
Cecilia Reeve
Isha Bøhling is a Hackney-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, performance and sound, exploring embodied experience through immersive, time-based and material-led practice.
Isha Bøhling
Jeanne Gourlaouen is a French artist and designer working between Paris and London, creating surreal sculptural installations that twist everyday objects into playful, hybrid forms.
Jeanne Gourlaouen
Jonathan Schofield is a Hackney-based painter making bold, large-scale works shaped by RCA training, global residencies, and a long detour through creative direction.
Jonathan Schofield
Kat Five is a Hackney-based artist and producer working in experimental electronic music and AV performance, blending punk energy, glitch aesthetics and immersive visual collaboration.
Kat Five
Kellykiwi is an illustrator capturing people and everyday street style with a gentle, expressive touch, turning fleeting details into intimate, character-driven illustrations.
Kellykiwi
Kimberley Golding is a Hackney-based artist returning to painting after a fashion and design career, creating bold abstract works exploring colour, nature and identity.
Kim Golding
Lucy Muss is an East London–based painter working instinctively with colour and form, exploring memory, perception and movement through gestural, process-led abstract and figurative works.
Lucy Muss
Manal Massalha is a Hackney-based photographer and researcher exploring “everyday conviviality”, using participatory image-making to reflect community, trust and shared urban experience.
Manal Massalha
Martina O’Shea is an Irish-born artist working across sculpture, sound and zines, exploring memory, language and glitch through material-led, process-driven practice rooted in listening and place.
Martina O’Shea
Mei-Hui Liu is a London-based curator and designer working across fashion, art and music, producing collaborative exhibitions, events and community-led cultural programmes.
Mei Hui Liu
Nicola Hepworth
Nicola Hepworth is a painter and printmaker focused on contemporary life, portraying people working with their hands in semi-public spaces such as salons, studios and street-based workplaces.
Nikki Edwards is a London-based mosaic artist creating abstract, gestural works in glass and porcelain, translating digital forms into tactile, painterly compositions.
Nikki Edwards
Rosanna Dean is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sound and performance, exploring spirituality, ritual and the representation of the divine across cultures.
Rosanna Dean
Sammi Gale is a London-based poet, curator and editor of Plinth, publishing poetry and journalism across contemporary literary and cultural platforms.
Sammi Gale
Stephen Harwood is a London-based painter exploring East London’s changing landscapes, capturing places in flux shaped by memory, development and shifting urban histories.
Stephen Harwood
Tara Darby is a photographer creating immersive documentary projects exploring community, youth culture and shared urban spaces, focusing on overlooked social environments in contemporary cities.
Tara Darby
Taylor Silk is a London-based artist working with queer culture, camp aesthetics and DIY excess, exploring humour, sexuality and “bad taste” through playful, handmade visual language.
Taylor Silk
Sue Dray is a London-based artist whose 40-year career spans feminist publishing and fashion, now painting live at Fashion Week and collaborating across the industry.
Sue Dray
Walking Scores for Hackney presents a series of instructions and prompts for art walks across the borough, activated during Hackney Art Week, blurring art and everyday movement.
Walking Scores
YiMiao Shih is a London-based artist working across drawing, embroidery and sculpture, exploring material mark-making, repetition and narrative through stitched and relief-based processes.
YiMiao Shih
Curator Mei Hui Liu curates an exhibition of Asian artists and an afternoon market at the ESEA Community Centre in De Beauvoir.
Asian Creatives Market
Group show at Finch Gallery bringing together five artists working to explore the maquette as a space for improvisation and unrealised ideas. The exhibition embraces absurdity, scale and spontaneity, with a live improvised musical response by Triology.
Implausible Forms
Jay Yeomans is a UK-based artist working across painting, photography and collage. He presents works from his Pool Paintings series at Unlock, where imagined architectural spaces unfold through layered compositions influenced by photography, abstract expressionism and pop art, inviting moments of stillness, rest and quiet escape.
Jay Yeomans
Phyllis Bray: Myth & Nature at Batsford Gallery is the first major retrospective of British painter, illustrator and muralist Phyllis Bray (1911–1991).
Phyllis Bray
Pandemonia is a London-based performance artist and cultural icon known for her inflatable latex persona exploring fashion, celebrity and consumer culture.
Pandemonia
Patterngarden is a collection of unique, restored antique & vintage textile print designs, predominantly originating from Lyon, spanning the early 18th century through to the mid-twentieth century.
Patterngarden
Liaqat Rasul is a London-based collage artist whose layered practice explores South Asian social history, migration, labour and collective memory through archival imagery, textiles and found materials.
Liaqat Rasul
This group exhibition curated by Mei Hui Liu brings together artists working across installation, image-making and sculpture, all threaded through a bold, unapologetic pink palette. Artists include sculptor Andrew Logan, painter Roxana Halls (pictured), Sue Dray, Pandemonia and Babak Ganjei.
Pink Chaos
Bloody Bishop, is a Stoke Newington-based artist known for his humorous observational drawings of everyday life. Describing his practice as “bloody drawings of this and bloody drawings of that,” his playful, irreverent work will be exhibited at the Clissold Park Tavern.
Bloody Bishop
Working across cut-out animation, quilting and participatory installation, Katie King explores the sacred and the unruly through ritual, storytelling and textile-based practice.
Katie King
Shóna Slemon is a London-based Irish painter, curator and writer whose work celebrates the feral, flawed and emotionally unruly.
Shona Slemon
Nicholas A. Ferguson brings a Hackney edition of Icons of London to E5 Bakehouse for Hackney Art Week — a series of watercolour portraits celebrating people born, raised or rooted in the borough.
Nicholas Ferguson
Codi Hardcastle is a contemporary figurative painter. Self-taught and intuitive in approach, her semi-abstract works explore intimacy, emotion and presence through depictions of women.