Tessa Hunkin works on her mosaic while lions prowl nearby. I accompanied Tessa Hunkin of Hackney Mosaic Project to the lions’ enclosure at London Zoo when she installed her mast ...

Back in 2011, it was my privilege to interview Di England, the founder of Stitches in Time. Although Di passed in 2017, her creations live on and the magnificent quilts are now the subject of a ...

It was my pleasure to take a trip to Tottenham to spend an afternoon at the Mental Health Unit where Tessa Hunkin and members of the Hackney Mosaic Project had been worked with patients and staff over ...

I cycled over to Regent’s Park to visit my friends at Hackney Mosaic Project as they celebrated the unveiling of their masterpiece in the children’s playground at the Parkway entrance, Camden Town.

On Easter Monday, we celebrate our dearly beloved Viscountess Boudica of Bethnal Green who once entertained us with her seasonal frolics and capers but now is exiled to Uttoxeter She may be no spring ...

Ever since I first discovered William Kent’s beautiful lonely arch – a curious vestige from a catalogue of destruction – I have been meaning to go back to Bow take a photograph of it when the wisteria ...

In the late seventies, Contributing Photographer David Hoffman documented the religious drama enacted upon the streets of Stepney around Easter time, recording astonishing images of magical realist ...

Tessa Hunkin It was fairly hideous because we did not know what we were doing. We did doorsteps for shops and so many toilets and bathrooms, miles of Roman borders, rope borders and rolling waves that ...

The ceremony of the Widow’s Sixpence in the nineteen twenties. A crowd gathers for the ceremony a hundred years ago. Hungry widows line up for buns. The churchyard in the nineteenth century. Rev ...

Thanks to readers’ contributions we have already raised over £2,800 since we launched our crowdfund on Saturday. Below you can read about the very first Hackney Mosaic Project mosaic created in 2012.

Every Easter, George & Dunstan, donkeys at Stepney City Farm enjoy an outing when they join the Parishioners of St Dunstan’s for the annual procession around the vicinity on Palm Sunday – and, one ...

I was among the first to admire these canine masterpieces created by Hackney Mosaic Project under the presiding genius of Tessa Hunkin when they were installed on Hackney Downs. Tessa’s design took ...