• Route

    My route guides you through East London
  • Everything starts, always, at Maureen Paley. Her gallery on Three Colts Lane has its eighth show with Hannah Starkey. Head north, and cut through the backstreets of Bethnal Green, to Soft Opening, which is showing being alone by Dean Sameshima, a photographic work also on display at the Venice Biennale exhibition - one of the most resonant moments of Adriano Pedrosa’s Foreigners Everywhere.
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    Everything starts, always, at Maureen Paley. Her gallery on Three Colts Lane has its eighth show with Hannah Starkey. Head north, and cut through the backstreets of Bethnal Green, to Soft Opening, which is showing being alone by Dean Sameshima, a photographic work also on display at the Venice Biennale exhibition - one of the most resonant moments of Adriano Pedrosa’s Foreigners Everywhere.

     

    You must be hungry. Pre-book for Campania & Jones, behind Columbia Road, or Rochelle Canteen, on Arnold Circus, both open for lunch Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If it’s Friday or Saturday, just turn up to Leila’s Shop and Cafe on Calvert Avenue, and pray that the soft serve machine is turned on in the shop. If it’s Sunday, apologies.

     

    Wherever you choose to eat, head after to Studio M for Daniel Correa Mejia, and then Kate MacGarry for Renee So, and stop for a moment on Arnold Circus, the community garden where I volunteer. After, it’s time for a walk. The totter from east into Clerkenwell is a city walk of beauty, cutting through Bunhill Fields and the Golden Lane estate, then skirting north of Smithfield’s. Aim for Amanda Wilkinson Gallery to catch the last weekend of the show by Shimabuku, then head to Hollybush Gardens for Andrea Buttner, including new film works, so give yourself time. And after that, really, you’re on your own.