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We've been lucky to have some brilliant people writing about our artists and shows since the very first months in the basement.

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Featured

• Saatchi Gallery (2026): Perspicere: States of Transition

• Saatchi Gallery (2026): Materiality

• Juxtapoz (2024): Radio Juxtapoz: Ben Wakeling is Loving Fiercely

• Time Out (2022): The Londoners going to extremes to bring Ukrainian art to our city

• 10 Magazine (2021): BSMT Gallery: Statement of Intent

• Hero (2020): BSMT Gallery: Stronger Than Arms

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2026

• Inspiring City: Jil Mandeng's Offside football art exhibition

• Hackney Citizen: Offside by Jil Mandeng at BSMT Space

• Inspiring City: A digital detox: Rosie Woods' return to analogue

2025

• Beautiful Bizzare: BSMT Gallery presents Ronch: Invisible Lands

• IanVisits: Helch's Dropped Hs land in Dalston

• Inspiring City: Ronch explores otherworldly terrains in Invisible Lands

• Inspiring City: ALO returns to BSMT Space with Bardo

• FAD Magazine: Russell Herron's Cardboard Face Soup

• East London Lines: Hackney's street art: cultural heritage or a driver of gentrification?

• Inspiring City: Rosie Woods: digital innovation and golden street art

• Inspiring City: Rosie Woods' Hyper Gold at BSMT

2024

• Hackney Citizen: Errol Theunissen's Dalston debut solo exhibition

• Inspiring City: Ben Wakeling talks abstract figurativism and mental health

2023

• Live in Italy: Sarabande by Italian artist Ronch opens at BSMT

• Inspiring City: Ronch, the artist with a unique brand of magical realism

• Inspiring City: Bare Thread from Perspicere

• Street Art News: Shithouse to Penthouse by Edwin

• Inspiring City: Gokcen Yuksek, pop surreal artist from London

2022

• FAD Magazine: RYCA: Hardcore

• Inspiring City: Eleven, the exhibition by ALO

• Hackney Citizen: Unmasked by Perishable Rush, reviewed

2021

• Inspiring City: Lost and Found by Perspicere

• Inspiring City: Malarko launches Flomper

2020

• FAD Magazine: Dutch collage street artist Perishable Rush's new show

• Inspiring City: ALO, the artist with his own brand of urban expressionism

• Hackney Citizen: A Dalston gallery's lockdown hope

2018

• Inspiring City: Dscreet, street artist

• Inspiring City: Skeleton Cardboard interview

2017

• Inspiring City: Interview with Irish street artist Eoin O'Connor

• Inspiring City: Stinkfish, the Colombian street artist

• Inspiring City: Graffiti and street art legends of Shoreditch and the East End

• Inspiring City: Lolie Darko's first London solo show

• Inspiring City: Greek street artists put on a show in Dalston

2016

• Inspiring City: Clandestinos paint shipping containers on the Haggerston Riviera

• Inspiring City: Much-anticipated Fanakapan solo show launches

• FAD Magazine: Fanakapan: Inflation

2015

• Inspiring City: Street artists turn BSMT into a black and white collaborative extravaganza

• Inspiring City: Death in Dalston

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