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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.

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Hackney Mosaic Project

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Nathaniel Acton mosaic

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

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Boris Anrep

Boris Anrep

Mosaic artist. Also wrote poetry in Russian and English. Born Russia. Came to England in 1899 to learn English. Spent time in St Petersburg, Edinburgh and Paris. A 1904 visit to see the mosaics in ...

Person, Art, Craft / Design, Russia

6 memorials
Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell

Artist and interior designer, born Vanessa Stephen at 22 Hyde Park Gate, London. Sister of Virginia Woolf. She married Clive Bell in 1907 and their home in Gordon Square became the focus of what wa...

Person, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
John Pine

John Pine

Engraver. Born and died in London.

Person, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Longman's Ship Binding Works

Longman's Ship Binding Works

Thomas Longman (1699-1755) through an inheritance acquired a publishing house, The Ship, in Paternoster Row (the street of book publishers) and shortly after, The Black Swan, next door. Daniel Defo...

Group, Commerce, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Studio Daniel Reynolds

Studio Daniel Reynolds

A design studio "Specializing in print with over 19 years of industry experience with a diverse range of UK, US and European fashion houses." Based in Iliffe Yard in Walworth, SE5. Source: Studio...

Group, Craft / Design

1 memorial

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Paul Richardson

Paul Richardson

Paul Richardson was born on 7 December 1972, one of the three children of Derek A. Richardson (b.1949) and Joan Elizabeth Richardson née King (1951-2021). His birth was registered in the Stepney re...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Prof. Sir Ernst Chain

Prof. Sir Ernst Chain

Born Ernst Boris Chain in Germany. Biochemist. Moved to England in 1933. 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on penicillin. Founder of Imperial College's Bioche...

Person, Science, Germany, Ireland

1 memorial
Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys

Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty.  Born Salisbury Court, where his father ran a tailoring business. The house backed onto St Brides church. Highly regarded administrator of the navy. Served C...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous

16 memorials
Austin Stephen Burton

Austin Stephen Burton

We have found no information about Austin but think he might be a grandchild of Montague.  See Burtons.

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial
Paul Day

Paul Day

Sculptor. Best known work (you love it or you hate it) is the huge statue (which we do not love) at St Pancras station with the deep relief frieze around the eye level plinth (we do love that), whi...

Person, Sculpture

3 memorials