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The first scene of the film installation in Andrew Pierre Hart's exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in Tower Hamlets East London.

'Free-writers'. Photo by Alice Chapman © Social Streets CIC.

Dancers flow through Whitechapel’s streets in Andrew Pierre Hart’s multidisciplinary exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery

3 June 20243 June 2024 Alice Chapman

The first scene of the film installation in Andrew Pierre Hart’s exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in Tower Hamlets East London.

$Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi, from the series East End Portraits , 1950 - 1980. Courtesy Autograph, London$

Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi, from the series East End Portraits, 1950 - 1980. Courtesy Autograph, London

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Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi’s joyful archive of working-class East End communities

23 January 20246 February 2024 Imogen Garfinkel

From market stall traders to lovers in the dim-lit corners of members’ clubs, Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi archived everyday moments of

Bobby Baker, An Edible Fami ly in a Mobile Home, 1976. Documented by Andrew Whittuck.

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Living the Sweet Life: Tate Britain’s new feminist exhibition features an East End family made of cake

16 November 202317 November 2023 Sinead Campbell

‘An Edible Family in a Mobile Home’ is open at Tate Britain and features a restaged cake installation once held

Michelle Lowe-Holder poses with some of her designs made using nitrous oxide canisters. Photo by Felix Naylor Marlow © Social Streets CIC.

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This is Home: Michelle Lowe-Holder, a Canadian in Whitechapel

16 November 202322 November 2023 Felix Naylor Marlow

Canadian artist and fashion designer Michelle Lowe-Holder talks about moving to Whitechapel, how the area has influenced her art and

John and Natasha Flint in Wapping, East London.

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Natasha & John Flint: the artists who confronted death in a small Wapping flat

21 June 202228 March 2023 Cormac Kehoe

We speak to the father and daughter duo behind the GET OFF THE BALCONY exhibition about cabin fever, trauma and

A painting of the view from the Idea Store, Whitechapel.

'Rooftops over Whitechapel,' © Marc Gooderham

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Painter Marc Gooderham: pausing the bustling streets of Whitechapel

21 January 202228 March 2023 Gulistan Elidemir

Marc Gooderham’s paintings of Whitechapel and the East End provide a moment of stillness to appreciate our city architecture hidden

Tracey Emin, The Ship, 2019

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Whitechapel Gallery announces Tracey Emin as the Art Icon 2022 recipient

14 January 202228 March 2023 Gulistan Elidemir

The East London based artist is known for her autobiographical and expressive artwork that has been featured in Charles Saatchi’s

Shot of the Bell Foundry entrance, Whitechapel Road.

This picture depicts a high street shot of the entrance on 32–34 Whitechapel Road. Although the windows are on display, it seems as though the premise is empty, almost as though nothing exists past the door, echoing its consequential end. © John Claridge, 1982

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