Little by little, the resulting rope coils up on the floor, each loop marking a specific period in time. Built in Conrad’s ...

From microbial dyes to seaweed-based sequins, a new exhibition invites visitors to ask what the future of fashion might be ...

Art curator Shaun Caton in Homerton Hospital, surrounded by art made by patients with acquired and traumatic brain injuries. Photograph: Russell Parton If you’re looking for art, a hospital is not the ...

A few years ago, playwright May Sumbwanyambe sat down to watch The Last King of Scotland with his father. The film tells the story of a white Scottish physician who finds himself embroiled in African ...

Last month’s announcement that the Grade II-listed Balfron Tower in Poplar will no longer contain any social housing but will instead be sold as luxury flats put an end to speculation about its future ...

The front of one of the Omega Works warehouses on Hermitage Road, Harringay. Photograph: Ossi Piispanen “Artists and African churches always move in at the same time,” says Ellis Gardiner, as he ...

Walking down Well Street in Hackney, you’d be forgiven for missing the Freed of London ballet shoe factory. But according to the filmmaker Jack Flynn, inside the factory lies “another world”.

Having notched up some serious critical acclaim with his first venture, The Phone Call, local screenwriter James Lucas has turned to the streets of Hackney for his latest work in progress. Thus far, ...

You don’t have to be a twitcher to enjoy birdwatching in East London, as a new exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures of birds attests. Aviary, which is at Transition gallery this month, is ...

Across North London, just outside the historic Hampstead Cemetery, an independent publishing house is breaking ground for diverse voices in publishing – and founder Valerie Brandes holds her ...

Part of the appeal of madness for dramatists is the way that uncontrolled unconscious appetites and desires are thought to lurk so closely underneath the conscious, rational, socially acceptable world ...

Emilia Teglia, founder and artistic director of Odd Eyes Theatre, is putting on a play about cultural clashes in Hackney (dare I say ‘gentrification’). As such, it was pertinent when we met for coffee ...