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Brick Lane and Heneage Street

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Self-taught artist John Allin made his mark within what is today considered the Folk/Outsider Art movement in Britain, adopting a naive style and drawing on memories of his East End childhood to capture a fast-disappearing era.

The area depicted is the intersection between Brick Lane and Heneage Street in Spitalfields, which has housed successive generations of immigrant textile makers: from the French Huguenot refugee weavers in the 17th century, to the Jewish tailors who settled in the late 19th–early 20th century and were associated with the 'Schmattes' (rag trade); later succeeded by the Bangladeshi community. Allin includes the Heneage Street Synagogue (which closed in 1972), with Pendora’s ‘universal’ fashions above, while a horse-drawn cart trundles slowly down Brick Lane in the background.

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

London

Title

Brick Lane and Heneage Street

Date

c.1974–1975

Medium

lithograph on paper

Measurements

H 49 x W 46.2 cm

Accession number

1987-6ii

Acquisition method

presented by Jonathan Stone, 1975

Work type

Print

Signature/marks description

Signed and dated (lower right): 'John Allin 75'

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Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

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