New Perspectives expands Hive Curates exhibition programme and showcases emerging artists’ work beyond their studios. In collaboration with Eastern City BID and Landsec, New Perspectives showcases three striking artist window takeovers at the recently vacant, Hackett London space, 53-54 Old Broad Street, until February 2025.

Chantelle Purcell, Hive Curates explains, “With the growing number of new developments according to Savills, the vacancy rate is forecasted to reach 8.3% in the City by Q4 2024. It’s so important to reimagine new ways to animate our high streets. This opportunity provides visibility for emerging artists, the transformation of a former Hackett space formerly designated for commercial trading has now become a cultural spotlight for three talented and diverse woman artists. Exploring themes of identity and belonging through their works connecting audiences with new perspectives as they pass by on their daily commutes”.

New Perspectives enables passersby to admire the work of three eye-catching artists, whilst strolling nearby Liverpool Street station. Eve De Haan’s dazzling neon work “Be Nice” will draw you in. Her work showcases catch phrases or ideas that resonate personally with her. Her choice of words encourages the audience to form their own link, completing the narrative on their own. “I believe storytelling expands the imagination.” Storytelling, she continues, “is a way of carrying culture. I feel it is a vital part of my creative practice. Everything you create is a story, from beginning to end.

A few steps more and you’ll see Maureen Uzoh’s striking surrealist paintings and installation work. Uzoh, originally from Nigeria, is a self-taught painter now living in London. Her paintings invite viewers into a realm where whimsy meets existential reflection. This collection of works feature a series of captivating paintings in which the characters are illustrated with balloon heads, replacing the typical human face with a character that is both playful and deeply symbolic, a metaphor for the transient nature of freedom and existence.

And lastly, stroll along the road to see Anita-Praise Nweke’s mixed-media works. Nweke is a British-Nigerian artist who explores the complexities of Black female identity, shaped by cultural hybridity. Through her work, she seeks to confront and unravel the misrepresentations and distortions of Black women perpetuated by society and the media. Nweke reflects upon the fetishization and deconstruction of Black women’s bodies and challenges societal misrepresentations of Black women through sculpture. The use of Ankara fabric is pivotal in her creations, as a symbol of Nigerian and British identities.