Exhibition
Material Histories & Reframing the East End Exhibition Launch at Oxford House
Material Histories & Reframing the East End Exhibition Launch at Oxford House
Material Histories Material Histories is a collaborative project celebrating the rich and layered history of the textile industry in the East End. Working alongside contemporary artists, local community groups have created five large-scale banners inspired by the area’s longstanding connections to textile production, craft and migration. The banners trace histories that span centuries, from Huguenot silk weavers and Jewish tailoring workshops to Irish linen workers and Bangladeshi garment makers, highlighting the communities whose skills and cultural traditions helped shape the identity of the East End. Combining archival research, storytelling and collective making, the project reflects on textiles not only as material objects, but also as carriers of memory, resilience and shared histories. Reframing the East End Reframing the East End is a participatory photography project exploring how the local area can be seen, remembered and represented today. Working with social documentary photographer Rehan Jamil, participants investigated Bethnal Green through archival research and street photography, documenting everyday life while responding to historical images, local stories and...
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When is Material Histories & Reframing the East End Exhibition Launch at Oxford House?
Tue 30 Jun
Where is Material Histories & Reframing the East End Exhibition Launch at Oxford House?
Material Histories & Reframing the East End Exhibition Launch at Oxford House, London (E2 6HG).
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