18 Hewett Street

about

18 Hewett Street is a concept space in the heart of East London. Housed in a 3-storey warehouse, 18HS lives as a blank canvas for whatʼs good in all verticals of the creative world, playing host to a plethora of different exhibitions, gigs, forums, supper clubs and workshops.

18 Hewett street is endorsed by creative agency Protein.

Weʼre open 7 days a week.

Pop in for a drink in our coffee shop Protein by DunneFrankowski.

Future

Earnest Endeavours feat. Widows, Aerosyn-Lex & Shaniqwa Jarvis

Thursday 24th May - Sunday 3rd June

Opening Night Thursday 24th May 7pm-10pm

Earnest Endeavours is the independent art-led record label and creative collective from London, New York and LA who celebrate the art of craft. Their 1-year anniversary exhibition, artists talk and after party in May is an all-encompassing gallery show of installations by NYC calligraphic artist Aerosyn-Lex (who has exhibited with Jeff Koons and Shepard Fairey), photography by Shaniqwa Jarvis (Supreme / Stussy / Liberty) and a live drum installation by LA's Widows. The evening talk and discussion will explore underground communities and DIY and craft movements in music and art in 2012 with the full Earnest Endeavours collective in London for the first time.

Reed + Rader

Thursday 6th September - Wednesday 19th September

Opening Night Thursday 6th September 7pm-10pm

Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader are a digital fashion due from Brooklyn, New York. With new technologies in their grasp, the duoʼs photography, film, animation, and interactive work produces forward thinking fashion stories, often comprised of GIFs and cosmic, playful abandon. Reed + Rader are pioneers in an uncharted territory, one of aesthetically pleasing fashion fun, launching their first ever UK solo show during London Fashion Week.

Past

Something I Ate & On Plate Still Hungry

Something I Ate & On Plate Still Hungry

Friday 27th April - Monday 7th May

Opening Night Friday 27th April 7pm-10pm

Protein is proud to present the launch of On Plate, Still Hungry - a new online food, drink, travel and culture magazine that sees a worldwide collective of writers, artists, chefs, designers, photographers, musicians and filmmakers share meals, stories, interviews and ideas on the daily.

OnPlateStillHungry.compresents exclusive stories from London to Los Angeles, New York to Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Manila, Austin, Tokyo and more, with the search function to be able to follow guest columnists and contributors across food, drink and travel.

To coincide with the magazine’s live launch date, On Plate, Still Hungry collaborates with Brooklyn-founded Something I Ate, a seasonal food+art event series that mirrors the community and contributor concept of OnPlateStillHungry.com, with this being their debut London event.

Celebrating London and food, On Plate, Still Hungry, Something I Ate and Protein invited 60 of our favourite people across food, drink, music, media, art, fashion, film and photography to document a week’s worth of eating. Three photos a day of breakfast, lunch and dinner to give us a snapshot of London eating. That’s over one year's worth photographs of the good, the bad and the tasty, being collated into a large-scale data art installation.

Inspired by the individuals and the food data collated, Something I Ate’s New York chef Sam Kim will be creating a menu that will be served up on the launch night, with music by London’s music and art label and collective, Earnest Endeavours.

Food diarists:

Adam Tickle, Addie Chinn, Alison Jones, Ben Kreukniet, Carlos Carneiro, Ciaran McNeaney, David Rowe, Deidra Hodgson, Duffy, Elle Azhdari, Freddie Janssen, Gabriel Pryce, George Whiting, Helen Ralli, J Saintil, James Lowe, James Unsworth, Jodi Muter, Joel Lewis, Jonathan Fagan, Kat Chan, Kat Popiel, Kish, Lillie O'Brien, Marawa Wamp, Max Spencer, Mehdi Lacoste, Miss Cakehead, Missy Flynn, Neal Fox, Peter Crnokrak, Ronojoy Dam, Sam Bompas, Stephanie Reynard, Steve Salter, Suzanne Schurgers, Tasha Marks, Teddy Fitzhugh, Teneil Throssel, Terence The, Toby Evans, Trevor De Cotta, Victor Frankowski, Will Jack, William Rowe, Xenia von Oswald, Zezi Ifore

Music by Earnest Endeavours

Curated by Frederieke Janssen, Terence Teh, Kat Popiel, Mehdi Lacoste & Helen Ralli

Produced by Protein

The Daniel Johnston Show

The Daniel Johnston Show

Opening times:
Mon - Fri / 8am - 6pm
Saturday / 10am - 4pm
Sunday / 10am - 3pm

This exhibition brings together a collection of original drawings by singer, songwriter, artist and cult icon Daniel Johnston.

Daniel has spent over two decades exposing his heart and sublime musings to an adoring and ever-growing fan base.

Partially informed by his ongoing battle with manic depression, his music and art offer a fascinating insight into the inner workings of his mind. Daniel is entirely self-taught and shot to fame in the 90s after a succession of accomplished musicians such as Kurt Cobain, began publicly referencing his work as seminal and personally influential.

This show aims to captures the essence of Daniel's eclectic and expansive body of work.

Curated by Freddie Janssen and Helen Ralli from Protein.

Into The Abyss

Into The Abyss by MASS

The exhibition will run from Thursday 29th March - Sunday 1st April.

Esther Theaker and Jessica Bernard who make up MASS curate and direct creative projects with an aim to explore stories with challenging subject matter. This exhibition draws inspiration from the new Werner Herzog film, Into the Abyss, which is released on Friday. Herzog's documentary examines the death penalty through humanistic portraits, focusing on two death row inmates, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett. Herzog unravels the crimes and trials from separate viewpoints, exploring the devastating effects on all involved. The exhibition features a select group of artists who have captured unique perspective on the film's themes. Artists featured are Alex Shepherd, Alison Moffett, Theo Turpin, Laurel Schwulst, Margarita Louca and Susu Laroche. The private view is Thursday 29th March, 7pm - 10pm.

Have Fun Always

Have Fun Always by Teddy Fitzhugh

08.03.12 - 18.03.12

Teddy Fitzhughʼs debut London solo exhibition “Have Fun Always” took place in March 2012 18 Hewett Street. In Have Fun Always, the photographer celebrates the absolute and elemental power of music through striking black and white images of people completely in the moment. The collection of 24 photographs captures the often dramatic narratives of those special, super fleeting, ephemeral moments that are easily missed and forgotten in a haze of the morning after.

At 24 years old, Teddy Fitzhugh is part of Londonʼs creative underground infrastructure that revels in the fact that the cityʼs new music, art and fashion scenes are all intertwined.

INSA Girls On Bikes

Girls On Bikes by INSA

10.11.11 - 20.11.11

The first UK exhibition of INSAʼs photography project Girls on Bikes, featuring photography of models on bikes in front of INSA murals across the globe, the set of images sees INSA orchestrate a conflicting dialogue between his own street art, the possessed object of a bike and the overtly sexualized female presence.

Slow Tech

Slow Tech

17.09.11-25.09.11

A partnership between Protein and Wallpaper* magazineʼs Editor-at-Large Henrietta Thompson, the Slow Tech ‘designs for digital downtime’ exhibition was part of Shoreditch Triangle for London Design Festival 2011(LDF). Artists including of Hugo Eccles, Héctor Serrano, Kiwi & Pom, Samuel Wilkinson, Nic Roope and more created bespoke pieces that responded to today’s hyper-connectivity and constant communication via digital technology and social networks.

Dante Fried Chicken Taco Shack

Dante Fried Chicken Taco Shack

02.09.11 - 04.09.11

LA chef Dante Gonzalez AKA Dante Fried Chicken rolled in, served up his signature fried chicken on homemade tacos, blueberry guinness BBQ brisket tostadas, biscuits & gravy, gumbo tamales and fresh horchata. We sold out three days straight.

POSTERMAT

The Hole NYC & Dazed LIVE

09.04.11 - 23.04.11

Downtown New York art outfit The Hole brought its Postermat show over to London as part of the Dazed Live festival 2011. Curated by The Hole’s director Kathy Grayson, the exhibition included works by Yoko Ono, Barry McGee, Bruce LaBruce, Harmony Korine, Aurel Schmidt and many more.

Two Soups & A Honeybun

Two Soups & A Honeybun by Justin ʻKUTMAHʼ McNulty

19.01.11 - 13.02.11

Justin ʻKutmahʼ McNultyʼs solo exhibition of drawings Two Soups & A Honeybun featured 37 intricate linear illustrations created using the most basic of tools - a small HB pencil and a plastic ID card. The collection of compelling drawings were completed in 2010 while Kutmah was detained in a New Mexico prison.

coffee shop

Protein by DunneFrankowski

Mon - Fri / 8am - 5pm
Sat / 10am - 4pm
Sun / 10am - 3pm

Our friends DunneFrankowski have designed an awesome modular multi-purpose coffee bar to live in our 18 Hewett Street gallery space. The two coffee connoisseurs have crafted a coffee bar that works under the ethos of functionality over form, focusing on presentation, service and design. It’s a space that can be run comfortably by a maximum two people, and also be taken and re-created in a variety of spaces ... lucky for us, first stop is Protein HQ.

We love our data here at Protein, so have made a real-time Chromo Enabled feed to track/celebrate each and every coffee sold, which you can find here.

Hire

18 Hewett street is available for private hire.

Beyond exhibitions and private views, other types of events our space has previously played host to include:

Film screenings

Book & magazine launches

Pop-up restaurants

Pop-up stores

Photo shoots

Video shoots

Fashion showcases

Forums/Talks

Workshops

contact

18 Hewett Street
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 3NN

Tel: 020 7247 3999

info [at] 18hewettstreet.co.uk

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