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E17 Art Trail – Our Picks

Jun 11, 2015 | Blog

Have you been along to any Art Trail events yet?  You have until Sunday evening to pay them a visit so don’t delay!

 

With over 250 events to choose from it can be a bit overwhelming, so we’ve put together our very own trail of our favourite exhibitions.

Don’t forget to come in and see our exhibition at 181 Hoe Street, next to Foxtons.

 

E17 Art Trail 2015

Eight Legged Nature Trail

Walthamstow Marshes

Join Eight Legged Horse on a nature trail across the Walthamstow Marshes. Learn how to draw the flowers or creatures you find there and write a Viking Kenning to accompany your creations. Upload your pictures to our interactive nature map.

 

Walthamstow Pictorial

Veg Hut, 2B Chingford Road
A reportage look at the forever changing life of Waltham Forest. By local photographer, Adrian Callaghan.

 

Fruitful Conversations

Flat 1, 22 Courtenay Mews, Access via bus park behind High Street
This exhibition explores the vibrance and beauty of everyday fruit in ink and other mediums. Its aim is to prove that still life is still alive and that its compositions are still interesting and explorative.

You’re Beautiful Walthamstow!

 Chequers E17, 145 High St

YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL WALTHAMSTOW: Local clothing label phannatiq and local photographer Stephen Berkeley White exhibit a series of photographs of Walthamstow folk in phannatiq clothing as a two fingers up to the unrealistic ideals of the fashion industry.

 

Stitch For Survival

61 Somers Road
Stitch For Survival is an extended project on embroidery as therapeutic and feminist praxis by writer and embroidery artist Kate Elisabeth Rolison. Kate is a poet, and she stitches her poems together (with deference to Kurt Schwitters).

Wonderful Walthamstow

Rose & Crown Pub, 53 Hoe Street
Photographs by Stuart Moore proving that Walthamstow can be beautiful, some taken from the ‘Marshes Express’ train to Liverpool Street. Print sale profits from this 2015 Art Trail exhibit at the Rose & Crown will go to the Eat or Heat local charity.

What is Health?

Ashlins Natural Health , 181 Hoe Street
What does health mean to the people of Walthamstow? What does it mean to you? Visit this thought provoking gallery of local portraits by Kirsti Abernethy.

Storytelling Scarecrows

Greenway Avenue Community Garden, off Greenway Avenue
Local artists Heather Whitney and Natalie Cosgrove have made the Storytelling Scarecrows mostly from found materials. These now have a home in a community garden near Wood Street.