Comments on: The Mosaic Makers of Hoxton

By: MICHAEL OLIVER

MICHAEL OLIVER — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:55:46 +0000

I am so happy to have come across this information and think it is inspiring and wonderful that this work is there for all to see. Thank you to all the people who made this possible

By: Mark Muggeridge

Mark Muggeridge — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:59:17 +0000

The Shepherdess Walk Mosaic is tucked away in a quiet corner of this park just around the corner. I love this work of many hands, with the sheeps and happy people it shows, it is close to absolutely perfect ! In Hackney this one is only rivalled by the Mosaic of African Animals with their proper names at the kids playground in Hackney Downs Common Park. I like that one best because I wasn’t up to my age with words as a kid. Very scared in case my dad found out, i’d read by torchlight under the covers an alphabetic animal book with a picture per page, the animals’ name and a little info on it. Made for younger kids it helped me to try and understand how the name and words were linked to the pictures. A is for Aardvark…

By: Rose Taylor

Rose Taylor — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 04:30:39 +0000

The mosaics are superb! Congratulations to Tessa and to all the hardworking people who made them. They are first class work, comparable to any in a museum. It would be wonderful if many more of the bare brick walls of London were covered in mosaics. What a wonderful thing that would be. And it helps with the tone of the neighborhood. Keep going, you are doing splendid work. I live in Vancouver Canada now, but was born in London. Will seek these out on my next visit.
Thank you for doing this.

By: Sarah Glennister

Sarah Glennister — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:37:31 +0000

wow, amazing mozaics!! can’t believe the amount of patience and dedication these artists have. Hoxton is turning out to be a great neighbourhood, I love the little bars and cafes along the canal, and some great developments too!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:25:19 +0000

I lived just across the road from the creepy tunnle from a baby in 1950 to 1966. On my next visit to the area I will take a closer look.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:05:06 +0000

Truly wonderful!

By: Anne Sorenson

Anne Sorenson — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:25:25 +0000

Wonderful. I love the marriage between classical & modern – witty, clever and sweetly tender. Congratulations to everyone involved. I keep coming back to the photos for another look. I’ll look forward to future projects. Thank you!

By: Patricia Celeveland-Peck

Patricia Celeveland-Peck — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:21:49 +0000

Congratulations to all involved. This is something quite magnificent. I have sent a link to friends all round the world and everyone is amazed. Hope you have a lovely day tomorrow. We can’t be with you but shall come to see it as soon as we can

By: Kevin McDermott

Kevin McDermott — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:35:13 +0000

This is truly wonderful work. It is inspiring to see any work, in any discipline, which manages to be truly TRADITIONAL — careless thinkers associate this with “old-fashioned” ways; and at least partially, they’re right: for to be truly traditional, work must in fact be connected to what has been done before both in technique and, most likely, matter. But if it is not living in the present, and capable of growing within its own tradition…it’s not traditional: it’s DEAD. Which is why it’s such a joy to see these mosaics. They can assuredly be enjoyed without knowing anything about the history of mosaics…but for those who do know a bit…here is something entirely modern, speaking of our own day, which is also fully alive with the spirit and forms of a great period of the art it is carried out in. There is nothing twee or stilted; the modern matter wears its 3rd and 4th century “clothing” entirely naturally — and I think when these mosaics are looked at in a couple of thousand years (as we look at the Carthaginian or Sicilian ones now) it will be the iPhones and leaf blowers that will look old-fashioned, not the artistic style. That is as fresh and new as it was two milennia ago, and as any good style can be, when handled as elegantly as this has been. Congratulations to all concerned! I am coming to the Metropolis in a few weeks from my home in Boston, US, and will be sure to visit this lovely work.

By: Neville Turner

Neville Turner — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:34:19 +0000

A great show of what is needed to create a friendly area, we need much more
of this around our streets,not only east london it would help to lift everyone.