Cheeky Sudio

01/09/2026

HACKNEY BLOOM 2026
Hackney Bloom is a community-led exhibition celebrating creativity, connection and growth across Hackney.

Each artwork brings a different voice to a shared garden, shaped together by artists, local residents and creative partners.

Presented by Cheeky Studio® × Roha Flower | London Florist, the exhibition brings together textile artworks, floral installations, and pieces created by Hackney residents through our workshops.

With support from cheekyarn, participating artists have been able to create artworks using supported recycled yarn.

Our partner Sonic Tonics is providing the exhibition space, where visitors can also enjoy drinks brewed locally in Hackney.

For the opening night, JAPONICA will provide Japanese-style bakery treats for the first 100 guests.

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Sonic Tonics, Block F, Tradestars Hackney Wick, 415 Wick Ln, London E3 2JG

17–19 September 2026

🪩 Opening Event
Thu 17 Sep, 18:00~21:00

🎢 Exhibition Hours
Fri 18 & Sat 19 Sep, 12:00–17:00

This project is supported by Hackney Council and funded by the UK Government, with cheekyarn® as our main yarn supporter.

Come by, enjoy textile art and flowers, grab some delicious treats and locally drink, and celebrate Hackney Bloom with us! 🙌

We’d love to connect with more Hackney-based businesses, communities, and organisations. If you’re interested in supporting or partnering with Hackney Bloom in any way, please get in touch!

Floral & Textile Exhibition
17th - 19th September 2026
Tradestars Hackney Wick

Artists Line Up
Morgan Tang Morgan
Niamh Tremain-Coker niamh tremain-coker
Raphaele Tayvah
Georgia Salisbury
Georgia Salisbury
Selina Latour selina latour
Fern Dixon
Emily McCann Emily ⭐️🪞🚻🎠🧶🌪️💋🧜🏼‍♀️👙🐈‍⬛🍌🛼🎞️🖇️
Sophie Dickson Breakfast Lunch & Dinner Collective
Leona Clarke
Evie Rosa Evie Rosa
Heather Orr Heather Orr
Ingrid Chen .nuages.sont.noirs
Ola Otog Ola Otog
Kenoly Mbele Leprince KENOLY M. LEPRINCE | TEXTILE ARTIST
Angelita Alves
Helen Barrass Helen
Katherine Soucie-Douglas
Dr. Katherine Soucie
Graham Hollick Graham Hollick
Tildy Mayhew
tildy

01/09/2026

18/08/2026

Trimming the fruit into shape🍈💕

17/08/2026

13/08/2026

Looking for a new CHEEKY

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12/08/2026

Brief arrived on a Wednesday with a deadline of the 8th. Tight, but doable if we started immediately.

The logo was straightforward. The shape was not. Archie came back the same evening asking for the outline to follow the letterforms rather than sit in a rectangle, which meant cutting the whole silhouette by hand once the tufting was done.

Then the carving. Every letter edge worked back by hand so the black sits proud of the white and the curves read as curves rather than steps. That is the part you cannot rush and cannot fake. It is also the part that makes the whole thing look inflated, like the letters are holding their breath.

90cm wide. Black on white. Made in a week, in Hackney Wick, made for SoSo Swim

10/08/2026

Hackney Bloom

TEXTILE EXHIBITION
OPEN CALL

This Hackney-funded textile and floral exhibition brings together artists and local residents, celebrating local creativity, connection, and community.

We welcome applications from artists, students, designers, makers, and anyone interested in creating with yarn. You do not need to identify as a textile artist or have professional experience to apply.

All yarn-based, mixed-media, and experimental approaches are welcome. Selected participants will create a new work specifically for the exhibition.

With cheekyarn as the main supporter, selected participants will receive loop 8 yarn to incorporate into their work.

We welcome applications from artists, students, designers, makers, and anyone interested in creating with yarn. You do not need to identify as a textile artist or have professional experience to apply.

All yarn-based, mixed-media, and experimental approaches are welcome. Selected participants will create a new work specifically for the exhibition.

With cheekyarn® as the main supporter, selected participants will receive loop 8 yarn to incorporate into their work.

Open Call
10–16 August 2026

Selected Artists Announced
17 August 2026

Exhibition
17–19 September 2026 
(Opening Event: 17 September)

Apply via the form linked in our bio.

A bloom is not simply a moment of birth. A seed set in the ground does not open by itself. It needs soil to hold it, sunlight, water, wind, and enough time. A flower blooms only when separate things meet and connect.

What comes to mind when you see a flower in full bloom?
Hackney is much the same. The residents, communities, businesses, and makers here each hold their own shape and their own story. When they come together, the conditions for a new bloom begin to form. Hackney Bloom reads this process of meeting and growth as a flower coming into bloom.

Each work is a single flower. On its own, it carries one meaning. Gathered with others, it takes on the fullness that only a garden can hold. The artists’ voices sit alongside one another without competing, and the landscape is richer for it.

This is not the work of the artists alone. It is a bloom made with partners, part

07/08/2026

Hey Hackney!
Show us your Hackney
through Tufting

Cheeky Studio is inviting Hackney residents to join us for a special tufting workshop, supported by Hackney Council.

No tufting experience is needed! Whether it’s a place, memory, object, colour or feeling that reminds you of Hackney, you’ll have the chance to turn your idea into a tufted artwork with us.

All 10 artworks created during the workshops will be featured in our upcoming exhibition in September. After the exhibition, each piece will be returned to its maker.

📅 Workshop Dates

- Saturday 29 August 2026, 2:00 PM
- Sunday 30 August 2026, 2:00 PM

👥 5 participants per session

📍 Cheeky Studio, Hackney Wick

🎟️ Free for Hackney residents

HOW TO APPLY
Follow Cheeky Studio® and Roha Flower | London Florist
Comment “HACKNEY” below

Participants will be selected at random and contacted via DM.

📌 Applications close: Friday 14 August
📌 Selected participants contacted: Monday 17 August

*This workshop is supported by Hackney Council.

Come and turn your Hackney into textile.

Hey Hackney!
Show us your Hackney
through Tufting

Cheeky Studio is inviting Hackney residents to join us for a special tufting workshop, supported by Hackney Council.

No tufting experience is needed! Whether it’s a place, memory, object, colour or feeling that reminds you of Hackney, you’ll have the chance to turn your idea into a tufted artwork with us.

All 10 artworks created during the workshops will be featured in our upcoming exhibition in September. After the exhibition, each piece will be returned to its maker.

📅 Workshop Dates

- Saturday 29 August 2026, 2:00 PM
- Sunday 30 August 2026, 2:00 PM

👥 5 participants per session

📍 Cheeky Studio, Hackney Wick

🎟️ Free for Hackney residents

HOW TO APPLY
Follow Cheeky Studio® and Roha Flower | London Florist
Comment “HACKNEY” below

Participants will be selected at random and contacted via DM.

📌 Applications close: Friday 14 August
📌 Selected participants contacted: Monday 17 August

*This workshop is supported by Hackney Council.

Come and turn your Hackney into textile.

Hackney Bloom 🌸

A bloom is not simply a moment of birth. A seed set in the ground does not open by itsel