Notting Hill Art and Architecture Walking Tour

A walking tour of art and architecture sites in the Notting Hill area

Notting Hill Art and Architecture Walking Tour

England E1 6FQ, United Kingdom

Created By: Cecily Powell

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A walking tour of art and architecture sites in the Notting Hill area


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What You'll See on the Tour

Wyndham Lewis Vorticist studioCampden Hill Lucian Freud ‘Large Interior W11’150 Notting Hill Gate Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy Art Restaurant 
 Lansdowne Studios Artist Blue PlaquesBridget Riley Op-artist lives off Holland Park AvenueFord Madox Ford Office with Ford Madox Brown Paintings 
Hapshash and The Coloured Coat Psychedelic Posters by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth Oz officesThe Boyle FamilyClarendon Cross Art Gallery 
Ladbroke estate architecture influenced by NashSt John’s ChurchSubterranean HouseElgin Crescent illustrator Osbert Lancaster1830s Hippodrome Racecourse Paintings by Henry AlkenLandsdowne House artist colony (LGBTQ pioneers)Landsowne Studi... Read more
Antiques Market Pop Artist Peter Blake used Ephemera from Portobello Market on the Beatles’ ‘Sergeant Pepper’ album sleevePop Artist Pauline BotyVernon Yard Virgin Sex Pistols Artist Jamie Reid...
Richard Adams Hippy Underground Press Designer Travel Bookshop, inspiration for shop in Notting Hill.
David Hockney’s studio ‘A Bigger Splash’ film ‘Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy’ 1971 painting in Notting HillStorm Thorgerson Hipgnosis Album SleevesPowis Square Tabernacle All Saints Church Caribbean Artists MovementKing Mob 1968 ... Read more
The Muse is the home of Portobello Film Festival and  Portobello Radio.On the site of the original Ceres, one of London's first macrobiotic natural food stores.
Westway Laing Construction Longest Elevated Motorway 1966 Gustav Metzger Auto-Destructive art on Westway Site Banksy Framed Artist StencilMonkeys on Railway BridgeWestbourne Studios Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz StudioHip-Hop Graffiti Art MuTat... Read more
Graffik Graffiti Art Gallery307 Portobello Road Barney Bubbles Hawkwind Album SleevesWornington Road site of Hip-Hop Graffiti Basketball Court 293 I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet301 (outside) Dread BroadcastRastamouse author sells books today...
Dickens Illustrator Phiz Hablot K Browne PlaquePaul Simonon Gas Works Backdrop Painting
Kensal House is a housing estate of two curved blocks of 68 housing association flats at the northern end of Ladbroke Grove, London, completed in 1937 and designed by the architect Maxwell Fry and the social reformer Elizabeth Denby. It was... Read more
 Erno Goldfinger’s iconic Brutalist masterpieceHolmfield House Brutalist block1959 Kelso Cochrane Murder Etching by Ken Spragueclose by site of Kelso Cochrane's murder, an event that led to thawing of race relations in the area...
Mural by Catman
Maxilla Gardens plays host every year to Sophie Lodge's 24 Hearts, a community art project that started as a response to the Grenfell Fire.
One of the sites for the Kensington & Chelsea Art Week Public Art Trail.
Curated every year by Bolanle Tajudeen as part of KCAW Public Art, a mural is created to express the black experience. This year's theme is Rest.
A curse or a boon depending on your point of view.
Favourite Instagram Influencer location Ringo wanders down Lancaster Rd taking 'arty pictures' in Hard Day's Night movie
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Home of Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Panto Promotes the 5 Arenas of Carnival: Calypso, Mas, teel Bands, Sound Systems and Brazilian BANDS
The fire at Grenfell Tower inspired many members of the community to express their sorrow, rage and frustration in art. Steve McQueen, Paul Benney, Forensic Architecture are amongst the internationally renowned artists who have examined the... Read more
The Museum of Brands in London examines the history of consumer culture from Victorian times to the present day.
This brightly coloured house at number 22 Portobello Road was the first London home where George Orwell lodged with Mrs Craig during the winter of 1927 after resigning as Assistant Superintendent of the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.   H... Read more

 

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