Upcoming events & exhibitions
We’re proud to host a regular programme of events and exhibitions celebrating our history and offering a radically inclusive welcome to our local community. To book tickets for an event listed here, please click on the individual event listing for a ticket link.
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Exhibition: UrbanLens3
Free exhibition, open to the public every Thursday and Friday between 12-6pm.
Sacha Lehrfreund - Night Walking
Mara Bodis-Wollner, Sacha Lehrfreund and Heather McDonough are photographers and artists living and working in Hackney, London.
The relationship to each other's work and the local neighbourhood started as a playful conversation and led to an artistic collaboration.
Not knowing one another, they began to follow each other's work on instagram and eventuallyrecognized how they might have been in the same place only moments apart. The three of them
became aware of connections in the photographs that they were posting individually, sometimes photographing the same street in their own styles on the same night.
They decided to meet and discuss their interests, approaches and reasons for shooting at night in Hackney. Each of their styles crossed over, bound by different artistic parameters; Mara framed details on the street, visual expressions that could highlight a transient inner state. Sacha created rules that governed her approach: posting one picture a day. She focused on the beauty and drama of the trees illuminated at night. Heather is drawn to visual juxtapositions that recall memories, making lyrical associations using light and colour.
They encouraged each other to discover lesser-known areas of the neighbourhood - to map and document new routes in the borough whilst walking. That original conversation formed the group Urbanlens3.
The Dialogue, Disintegration and the Disconnect is a site specific installation of photographic works.
An extended exhibition programme with workshops, photographic night walks and images screened around Hackney is planned for the Spring.
www.heathermcdonough.com @hevphoto
www.sachalehrfreund.co.uk @sacha_lehrfreund
www.bodis-wollner.com @marabwmarabw
@urbanlens3
Exhibition: Black Germany
This exhibition employs a number of biographies, accompanied by photographic images, in order to look at the largely forgotten development of a Black Diaspora in Germany from the 1880s up to 1945.
Exhibition: Picture This!
In the 1970s and 1980s Britain’s leading gay press was Gay News and Capital Gay. This exhibition focusses on major news stories that the artists have illustrated, as well as more general themes around gay and lesbian identity and community.