Sarah Birch - East End Review

Artist Ami Clarke finds beauty in bacteria at Hackney Downs installation

Cyanobacteria is equal parts stunning and lethal, and for several summers has bloomed in he UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh

By Sarah Birch

/ 23 Mar 2026

Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms installation by Ami Clarke

Nina Dellow explores' 'what is precious' at first solo exhibition

'Bona Vacantia' is on at Praxis N16 until March 31

By Sarah Birch

/ 20 Mar 2026

Nina Dellow explores' 'what is precious' at first solo exhibition

Baroque / Rococo at New Art Projects – recalling art history in a new way

Artist Charles Williams brought together artists he admires to create works inspired by 17th and 18th century artists

By Sarah Birch

/ 9 Mar 2026

Baroque / Rococo at New Art Projects – recalling art history in a new way

'Underground (and Surface)' – Jock McFadyen teams up with Pogues member in new exhibition

Ahead of his new exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery, McFadyen tells East End Review how he finds unlikely inspiration on the London Underground

By Sarah Birch

/ 25 Feb 2026

'Underground (and Surface)' – Jock McFadyen teams up with Pogues member in new exhibition

Hackney author David Annand tackles social injustice in 'The Dice Was Loaded from the Start'

Annand's zippy new novel sees 42-year-old Max Anderson wrestle between two realities in an idyllic North London setting

By Sarah Birch

/ 16 Feb 2026

Hackney author David Annand tackles social injustice in 'The Dice Was Loaded from the Start'

Encounters: Giacometti x Lynda Benglis – earthy dialogue with a pop of glitter

Artists Lynda Benglis and Alberto Giacometti may not be a natural pair on the surface, but in an exhibition at the Barbican, the parallels are plain to see

By Sarah Birch

/ 12 Feb 2026

Encounters: Giacometti x Lynda Benglis – earthy dialogue with a pop of glitter

Laisul Hoque's 'The Ground Beneath Me' – capturing the moments national histories meet

Fresh from winning the 2025 East London Art Prize, Hoque's solo show at the Nunnery Gallery explores the turbulent moments national identities and pasts intertwine

By Sarah Birch

/ 9 Feb 2026

Laisul Hoque's 'The Ground Beneath Me' – capturing the moments national histories meet

Ken Worpole and Gareth Evans: Brightening from the East

Worpole ponders the relationship between East London and the East of England, and commemorates the work of John Berger in the centenary year of his birth in Stoke Newington

By Sarah Birch

/ 2 Feb 2026

American Psycho, review - a 'parting tour de force'

The musical version was Rupert Goold’s first smash production as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and he now revisits this dark, satirical commentary on 1980s corporate greed

By Sarah Birch

/ 2 Feb 2026