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Creative Wick was commissioned by Peabody Housing Association to curate Your Work Here, a series of fine art paintings along the hoardings of Neptune Wharf construction site in Fish Island. In collaboration with The Wick Art Store, Creative Wick, selected thirteen local fine artists, not used to working outdoors, to create a series of paintings alongside…

Béton Brut Gallery is a new collaboration between Creative Wick and Béton Brut. A gallery that will host exhibitions of the work of Hackney Wick and Fish Island’s best established and emerging artists. Béton Brut‘s first exhibition opened on the 14th September featuring Gavin Turk, presenting ‘Transit’. 

Creative Wick facilitated negotiations between Shapes, Groveworld and arbeit to ensure that the recording studio tenants were able to stay in the building. Mural by Theirry Noir

Painting Connections In June 2015, Creative Wick started working with UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity, Institute for Sustainable Resources and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis on a research project into Hackney Wick and Fish Island’s informal sharing economy. The research led to an exhibition on Hackney Wick & Fish Island’s creative community’s unique sharing economy that took place at…

Home to more artists than anywhere else in Europe, Hackney Wick is a unique melting pot for creatives from all over the world. In collaboration with Hackney WickED and Creative Wick – the team behind Portraits of Hackney Wick celebrated local creative talent. 

In April 2016, Creative Wick, Alias Hire, a Hackney Wick based film equipment hire company and Open Vizor, with the support of the Wick Award, delivered a free film school for 12 young people from Hackney Wick and Fish Island and the surrounding communities of East London.  The film school was based at Hub67.

Creative Wick delivered a tour of Hackney Wick’s creative economy for Thinking Bob.

Pitching Masterclass led by marketing expert Rob Calder (Head of Marketing, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), ex Heineken, Magners, and Kopparberg).

Creative Wick delivered a tour to Sir Bill Castell, the Chairman of the Foundation for Future London, responsible for the development of the Culture and Education District (Olympicopolis) in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Creative Wick was commissioned by The Future of London to deliver a tour for a group of local authority regeneration officers.