Hackney exhibition in Wanstead

The Eightyfour gallery in Nightingale Lane – up until now exclusively a photography gallery – is from this weekend hosting a show by Hackney artist Remlap.

The show includes some of the pictures above, and focus largely on city landmarks, some well known, some not. Art magazine Glass has said of the show:

The ethereal and haunting beauty of the style pervades the work and gives the viewer a unique vision of a city in a continuous state of death and rebirth. As a resident of Hackney and the now infamous Pembury estate, Remlap is a first hand witness to the violence and destruction of his local community and the tension that followed the recent riots and death of Mark Duggan. The ‘ghosts’ of the title refer to that tension and air of uncertainty. Remlap sees this as a spectre haunting the city.

The show opens on Saturday 12 November, from 2pm until 8pm, when people are invited to go along and meet the artist. The show continues until next Saturday, 19 November. More details from the gallery on 020 8530 1244.

 

Nail bar opening still on for 11/11

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The re-opening of a Wanstead nail bar is still planned for the day when the nation pauses to remember the war dead, but will not be until after the two minutes’ silence at 11am.

Wansteadium reported yesterday that flyers were being handed out for the renovated high street shop, announcing the opening for the 11th of the 11th at 11am.  The sign at the shop, in the former Horsfall and Wright premises, this morning indicates it’s all going still going ahead on Friday, but a posting on the shop’s Facebook page clarifies that it will be after the silence.

 

Any information can be sent to wansteadium@gmail.com

 

 

 

Rare books on sale this week at Wanstead Oxfam

Oxfam in Wanstead High Street is holding a sale of collectible, rare and fragile books on Thurdsay 10 November between 6.30pm and 8.30pm. Some of the books which will be for sale are listed below. Oxfam says all prices have been checked against listed prices elsewhere.

FICTION
A Haunted House and other Short Stories
Virginia Woolf. Hogarth Press London. 1943.
1st edition with dust jacket. £20.00

The Spanish Farm Trilogy
R.H.Mottram. Chatto & Windus, Signed by author. 1920.

Lady – This is Love
Irene Buena De Mesquita. Cecil Palmer. London, 1930.
1st UK edition with dust jacket. £15.00

Wilt
Tom Sharpe. Secker & Warburg. London. 1976.
1st edition. Dust jacket. Very good condition. £29.99

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