Notting Hill Art and Architecture Walking Tour Preview

Notting Hill Gate

Wyndham Lewis Vorticist studioCampden Hill Lucian Freud ‘Large Interior W11’150 Notting Hill Gate Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy Art Restaurant

Holland Park

Lansdowne Studios Artist Blue PlaquesBridget Riley Op-artist lives off Holland Park AvenueFord Madox Ford Office with Ford Madox Brown Paintings

Princedale Road

Hapshash and The Coloured Coat Psychedelic Posters by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth Oz officesThe Boyle FamilyClarendon Cross Art Gallery

Lansdowne Crescent

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 Studios (Joe Meek)

Portobello Road, Westbourne Grove

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

Blenheim Crescent

Richard Adams Hippy Underground Press Designer Travel Bookshop, inspiration for shop in Notting Hill.

Powis Terrace

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 Situationist Graffiti

Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road

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

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 MuTate Britain Mutoid Waste Company ExhibitionVintage Market

284 Portobello Road

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

239 Ladbroke Grove

Dickens Illustrator Phiz Hablot K Browne PlaquePaul Simonon Gas Works Backdrop Painting

Kensal House

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 the first modernist block in the UK designed to be occupied by the working class and on completion in 1937, was widely thought to be a prototype for modern living. The project included a community centre, communal laundry, canteen and a nursery school.

Trellick Tower

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

Usual Suspects Mural

Mural by Catman

Maxilla Gardens

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.

KCAW Art Trail

One of the sites for the Kensington & Chelsea Art Week Public Art Trail.

KCAW BLM Mural

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.

Notting Hill Blue Door

A curse or a boon depending on your point of view.

Lancaster Rd

Favourite Instagram Influencer locationRingo wanders down Lancaster Rd taking 'arty pictures' in Hard Day's Night movie

Portobello Art Wall

Tabernacle

Home of Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello PantoPromotes the 5 Arenas of Carnival: Calypso, Mas, teel Bands, Sound Systems and Brazilian BANDS

Grenfell Tower

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 fire.

Museum of Brands

The Museum of Brands in London examines the history of consumer culture from Victorian times to the present day.

George Orwell Lodgings

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.He left here for Paris to write his classic novel Down & Out in Paris