Local Artist Selected For International Portrait Exhibition
Brixton-based artist Sarah Jane Moon has been selected for the BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery for the second year running...
Turning life around – inside and out
Local resident Charli Hogan Hooker has used the lockdown time at home to think about her future and how she can get creative again....
Picture of the week: A View of Walton Bridge by...
Arts editor Leslie Manasseh's pick for picture of the week
As we learn to cope with the lockdown in our various ways, we thought it...
A tour of Brixton through sketches
During lockdown we are all missing a leisurely wander through the streets of Brixton, brother and sister design duo Jess and Tom Jones-Berney have...
Blog & Bugle summer art show on hold
The public health crisis has meant the we've had to postpone our summer art show. It was originally to take place from 8 June...
Local radio presenter and doco maker asks ‘is your area changing’
Ruby Gregory meets Henrie Kwushue, whose mini-documentary series Is Your Area Changing is getting thousands of views
Brixton’s Reprezent Radio is home to Henrie Kwushue,...
Great Community Art in Clapham
Festival of Hope, an exhibition of 231 photographs at St James Church in Clapham Park, is part of the broader programme, Hope 2020, by...
People you meet in Brockwell Park
David Whyte, a retired commercial photographer who has lived in and around Brixton for more than 40 years, has put together a small exhibition...
Motherworks – photo exhibition in the Tate Library
Fiona Freund wants to shine a light on the hidden and overlooked talents of mothers, writes Leslie Manasseh. She is a professional photographer whose...
Dreams and Nightmares – British Surrealism on Show
Surrealism was an art movement that merged dreams with reality. It held that the unconscious mind was the source of artistic creativity and its...
Landfill inspires Isabel Fletcher’s Offcut Two exhibition
Brixton designer Isabel Fletcher’s new exhibition Downstairs at The Department Store on Ferndale features clothing, textile-installation, dance and film inspired by a Thames Estuary...
Squire’s Winter Windows wins international award
Squire & Partners and eight children from Hill Mead Primary picked up an international design award on Thursday 20 February, at the Frame Awards in Amsterdam.
The...
Portraits of Brixton by Adrian Coleman
Brixton is a busy place – full of people, noise and activity. But local artist Adrian Coleman has found an extraordinary stillness and calm...
Journeys through time in Dulwich Picture Gallery
“Art can teach us about ourselves and the world.”
So said Jennifer Scott, director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, as she launched its new exhibition Journeys.
This...
Black Men’s Minds – a moving testament
Brixton based artist, filmmaker and psychotherapist Stephen Rudder talks to Brixton Blog at the end of his exhibition Black Men’s Minds at Brixton's Black...
Electric Avenue to become first patterned street
Electric Avenue could be Britain’s first patterned market street after Lambeth council and the Brixton Project – a successor to the Brixton Design trail...
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Longfield Hall LOCKDOWN LIVE (Summer season)
LONGFIELD HALL LOCKDOWN LIVE is a summer season of fortnightly online productions.
BEST OF OUR LIVES – Thursday 11 June | 7:30pm
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