At Home is a new permanent public mural on Hoxton Street by London‑based artist Mohammed Z. Rahman, and Peer’s 2025 cohort of Peer Ambassadors, a group of local young people aged 17–25.

Commissioned by Hackney Council as part of Connecting Hoxton, a social infrastructure and public realm strategy for Hoxton. This landmark mural builds on Peer’s legacy of developing public art commissions in East London and welcomes people to Hoxton Street and its market.

Located on the corner of Hoxton Street and Crondall Street, the mural is painted on the side of a residential block on Arden Estate, which Peer also calls home. It was developed over an eight-month period of research and community engagement, and reflects outcomes of workshops, conversations and feedback between Rahman and the 2025 Peer Ambassadors, as well as Hoxton’s residents, market stall holders, shop owners and stakeholders.

At Home takes influence from the rich history of public murals across East London, such as the activities of Free Form in Shoreditch and Hackney in the 1970s and 80s; the 1984 Greater London Council’s Ethnic Minorities Unit campaign London Against Racism, which included artists Gavin Jantjes, Keith Piper, Shanti Panchal and Lubaina Himid; and the work of Ray Walker and others on The Cable Street Mural (1979) and Hackney Peace Carnival (1984).

Framed within the red brick grids of Hoxton’s architecture, the mural depicts six interlocking rooms; an imagined cross-section of the building. Each space tells a unique story and draws upon Hoxton’s social history and everyday domestic life. Intimate, creative and celebratory scenes sit alongside gatherings of commemoration and community support.

Objects and imagery reference local organisations on the street, including Hoxton Hall, Shoreditch Library and Peer. Saplings and sprawling leaves reflect the orchard in Hoxton Trust Community Garden and the importance of access to green space. Each room is simultaneously ordinary and magical, where domesticity becomes fertile ground from which to dream.

At Home references Hoxton’s civic space, cultural work and domestic life. Through ongoing community engagement, Rahman and the Peer Ambassadors invite us to ask how we might collectively imagine home – not just as a site of safe shelter, but as a space to build a world beyond our current conditions.

Listen to Mohammed Z. Rahman, Peer Ambassadors and Curator Max Jefcut in conversation


Biography:

Mohammed Z. Rahman (he/they b. London, 1997) is a London-based British-Bengali artist whose work spans painting, sculpture and illustration. Rooted in social anthropology and shaped by research, conversation and collaboration, Rahman’s practice explores themes of migration, queerness, labour and intergenerational memory. Through intimate renderings of domestic space they bring together the fantastical and the everyday, tracing connection between personal and collective histories.

Their 2025 exhibition Remember to Live at Peer built on their ongoing research into dreams and memories from the many communities that make up the artist's relationship to London. At Home continues this commitment to collaboration, storytelling and place based research. Mohammed is an awardee of the Tate Frieze Fund 2024 and the UK Government Art Collection London Gallery Weekend Fund. Forthcoming exhibitions include Hearthside at Whitechapel Gallery.


Peer Ambassadors:

Peer Ambassadors is an alternative, participant-led ‘art school’ that works with and supports young people aged 17–25 from underrepresented and working class backgrounds based in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. The programme provides an experimental space for young people to learn, collaborate, and build community.

At Home is the result of a six month collaboration between Mohammed Z. Rahman and the 2025 cohort of Peer Ambassadors. Collectively the group has played a central role in shaping the murals research, themes, and content. From early concept development to on-the-ground engagement, their ideas, experiences and reflections anchor the work in the social and cultural ecology of Hoxton. This commission builds on the wider aims of the Peer Ambassadors programme: to offer local young people meaningful creative and professional opportunities, build confidence and create stronger links between cultural institutions and local communities.

Peer Ambassadors 2025 participants: Aisha, Angelica, Arin, Beverley, Davina, Khadija, Laaibah, Mi’Amarni, Munisha, Orlando and Zeina.


About Connecting Hoxton:

‍‍The Connecting Hoxton Strategy, produced as part of the Mayor of London's Civic Partnership Programme, aims to create a better connected network of social infrastructure in Hoxton based on a shared vision from local residents, businesses, community and cultural organisations working in partnership with the London Borough of Hackney.At Home, by Mohammed Z. Rahman with the Peer Ambassadors, is produced by Peer, London, and commissioned by Hackney Council as part of Connecting Hoxton 2025.


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