Group    From 2011 

Hackney Mosaic Project

Categories: Craft / Design

The Hackney Mosaic Project is a community project based in Hackney, London that helps people with addiction and mental health problems by teaching them to create mosaic artworks, Started by Tessa Hunkin. In 2014 some of their work was awarded the British Association for Modern Mosaic's 2014 Mosaic of the Year.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Hackney Mosaic Project

Creations i

Nathaniel Acton mosaic

{At the centre:} This estate is named after Nathaniel Acton, 1725 - 1795, who...

Read More

Other Subjects

Quentin Newark
1 memorial
Maria Volkova

Maria Volkova

The National Gallery leaflet describes Volkova as Anrep's sister in law. But this Imago photo of Anrep and Volkova at the completed 'Awakening of the Muses', is captioned: "Maria Volkova - the only...

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Henry Moss
1 memorial
Peace symbol

Peace symbol

Designed by Gerald Holtom as a nuclear disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, which took place Easter, 4–7 April 1958. From the Hackney Gazette: "Gerald had first presented the symbol t...

Media, Craft / Design, Peace

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Poet and story writer. Born: Bombay, India. Died: London. See Waterloo Free Buffet. 2021: The Guardian reported some updates to English Heritage's information on Kipling: "While his children’s sto...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, India

2 memorials
Sir Harry Ricardo

Sir Harry Ricardo

WC1, Bedford Square, 13

English Heritage Sir Harry Ricardo, 1885 - 1974, mechanical engineer was born here.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Alistair Berkley and the Lockerbie bombing

Alistair Berkley and the Lockerbie bombing

WC1, Red Lion Square, Garden

Broad-leaf Cockspur Hawthorn (Crataegus x prunifolia) planted in memory of Alistair David Berkley, law lecturer in the Polytechnic of Cen...

2 subjects commemorated
Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane south

Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane south

E1, Brick Lane

There is meant to be another identical plaque further north in Brick Lane but we cannot find it. This cast-iron roundel, showing buttons ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Father Basil Jellicoe - St Nicholas Flats

Father Basil Jellicoe - St Nicholas Flats

NW1, Werrington Street, St Nicholas Flats

This plaque is identical to the one at the Community Hall.

1 subject commemorated