Changing exhibitions
The Museum has a large temporary exhibition gallery which showcases three or four exhibitions a year. The space offers high-quality displays including high spec audio-visual and computer facilities.
Exhibitions are based upon the themes of the museum and are always accompanied by a special events programme. These include drop-in workshops for families, regular adult talks and events and school holiday activities.
The Artists' Eye
25 January - 28 April 2012
A Mapping the Change exhibition of artists' work in response to the changes in East London as a result of the 2012 Olympics. These range from artistic impressions of the Olympic site, to photos through peep holes on Hackney building sites, to an abstract piece about workers on the River Lea to a children's animation film of Matchbox toys returning to their old factory.
Most of the work will be on sale once the exhibition is finished.
Visitors will also find out about Hackney's art in open spaces and be among the first to see images of the art specially commissioned for the Olympic Park. This includes Monica Bonvicini's mirrored glass and stainless steel 9 metre letters of the word RUN, Hackney artist Martin Richman's One Whirl made of recycled glass and Fantastic Factology, a series of bench plaques each one with a nugget of knowledge, to inform and inspire for years to come.
Timeline to 2012: September 2009 Timeline to 2012: December 2009
These come from a series of drawings and paintings that were made one every 8 weeks from early 2009 to the present. It records the building process of the Olympic Site. Each piece has been made from one particular position on the Greenway. The work continues, the final piece is in the making, the Orbit. Deanna Jackson.
Page updated: 31 Jan 2012
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