Vyner street, first thursday
Vyner Street In hackney London
is fast becoming the art oasis of east London surrounded by garages and workshops it plays host to a strange event every first Thursday of the month. Suddenly you’re driving or riding around and hundreds of people descend on the street to visit the lager array of galleries showing off their arts, paintings instillations and general arty stuff on a Thursday night.
Unlike any other exhibition the mood is jovial and good fun, a stranger comes up to me and asks “what do you think about this mate” while sipping a glass of beer as we look at a set of photo’s by William Nixon called lost Britain {See clip} I think there is something quite familiar about this images but a can’t put my finger on it.
Down stairs in the street another group of people are playing fine the art works which are hidden around the surrounding streets for them to find, but my favourite novelty is a ice-cream man but he’s not selling ice-cream he’s selling cones of paint in different colours which amazingly people buy, but I hope don’t eat, asked why ? He simply replies because its art.
It’s fun and it’s very much like a carnival atmosphere every first Thursday you do have to pinch yourself though because sometimes it hard to believe you’re in hackney and its pretty cool place to be at present and long may it continue .
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Author: A Green
Date: May 2009
Filed Under: Interviews