Arts - East End Review

'Water holds memory in the way we think of fossils'

Phoebe Boswell's new work sends Black swimmers dancing up and down the escalators at Bethnal Green, reclaiming water as a place of refuge rather than loss

Author: Michelle Tonta

'Water holds memory in the way we think of fossils'

At BowFest

In and out amongst the easels: a weekend of open studios

Author: Michelle Tonta

Visitors at a colourful makers market style setting.

Hackney goes looking for itself

Cheese handbags and sandwich shoes: Hackney Art Week 2026

Author: Michelle Tonta

'Watching the light-colour clothes spin in the washing machine, I suddenly thought of a ballerina’s tutu seen from above'

Brooklyn-based painter Ellie Kayu Ng on her debut UK solo exhibition Catching the Big Fish at Twilight Contemporary

Author: Michelle Tonta

A surreal painting with women in the foreground with an outstretched leg wearing fishnet tights. Swans swim beside them, and fish are jumping out of the water.

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

Author: Sarah Birch

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

Author: Sarah Birch

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

'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

Author: Sarah Birch

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

Beatriz González at Barbican Art Gallery – a harrowing history in pop art hues

The late Colombian artist's six-decade career is laid out in a vibrant retrospective this spring

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Beatriz González at Barbican Art Gallery – a harrowing history in pop art hues

'You come to the canvas without an ego and start painting' – artist Shaqúelle Whyte on making his marks

Back from his show at Hong Kong’s White Cube, the Dalston-based artist reflects on his process and upcoming shows in Wolverhampton

Author: East End Review

'You come to the canvas without an ego and start painting' – artist Shaqúelle Whyte on making his marks

‘It was filmic gold’ – Trainspotting exhibition at Atom Gallery celebrates 30 years of iconic Danny Boyle film

Choose Life. Choose 30 years of Trainspotting. Choose gazing at a Periodic Table of Swearing at Newington Green’s Atom Gallery from 21 February

Author: Michelle Tonta

‘It was filmic gold’ – Trainspotting exhibition at Atom Gallery celebrates 30 years of iconic Danny Boyle film

Arise, ceramics! Artists and scientists to lead new clay lab

Cernamic is one of the latest additions to Dalston's thriving arts scene, and its founder has secured a £10,000 grant to fund an exciting new project

Author: Claudia Lee

Arise, ceramics! Artists and scientists to lead new clay lab

Isolation Chamber Vacation, Transition Gallery, preview – Alone time

A new exhibition examines the concept of solitude, from associated connotations of madness to its status as a tool for creative genius

Author: East End Review