Notting Hill Art and Architecture Walking Tour Preview

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

• Lansdowne Studios Artist Blue Plaques
• Bridget Riley Op-artist lives off Holland Park Avenue
• Ford Madox Ford Office with Ford Madox Brown Paintings

• Hapshash and The Coloured Coat Psychedelic Posters by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth
• Oz offices
• The Boyle Family
• Clarendon Cross Art Gallery

• Ladbroke estate architecture influenced by Nash
• St John’s Church
• Subterranean House
• Elgin Crescent illustrator Osbert Lancaster
• 1830s Hippodrome Racecourse Paintings by Henry Alken
• Landsdowne House artist colony (LGBTQ pioneers)
• Landsowne Studios (Joe Meek)

• Antiques Market
• Pop Artist Peter Blake used Ephemera from Portobello Market on the Beatles’ ‘Sergeant Pepper’ album sleeve
• Pop Artist Pauline Boty
• Vernon 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 Hill
• Storm Thorgerson Hipgnosis Album Sleeves
• Powis Square Tabernacle
• All Saints Church
• Caribbean Artists Movement
• King Mob 1968 Situationist Graffiti

• 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 Stencil
• Monkeys on Railway Bridge
• Westbourne Studios Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz Studio
• Hip-Hop Graffiti Art
• MuTate Britain Mutoid Waste Company Exhibition
• Vintage Market

• Graffik Graffiti Art Gallery
• 307 Portobello Road Barney Bubbles Hawkwind Album Sleeves
• Wornington Road site of Hip-Hop Graffiti Basketball Court
• 293 I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet
• 301 (outside) Dread Broadcast
• Rastamouse author sells books today

• Dickens Illustrator Phiz Hablot K Browne Plaque
• Paul 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 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.

• Erno Goldfinger’s iconic Brutalist masterpiece
• Holmfield House Brutalist block
• 1959 Kelso Cochrane Murder Etching by Ken Sprague
• close 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

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 fire.

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.

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