Art and literature
A wealth of art is made and sold in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

Galleries in Hammersmith and Fulham

• 20th Century Gallery 
  821 Fulham Road, London, SW6 5HG
  Tel: 020 7731 5888
  Specialising in 20th century British paintings and also offer a bespoke framing service.
  
• Al-Aqsa House 
  5 New King's Road LondonSW6 4SB 
  Tel: 020 7384 1074
  
• Albion Bowie Art 
  40 St Maur Road
  London SW6 4DP
  Tel: 020 7610 6180
  
• Artiquea
  82 Wandsworth Bridge Road
  London SW6 2TF
  Tel: 020 7731 2090
  www.artiquea.com
  Opened in 2008 the gallery's goal is to introduce Arab and Middle Eastern artists to the art circle in the UK in an effort to bridge the gap between different cultures.
  
• Aya Gallery 
  15 Fulham High Street, SW6 3JH    
  Tel: 020 7371 5050
  www.ayagallery.co.uk
  London's newest venue dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art from the Arab, Middle Eastand Islamic world. 'Communicating visually, spiritually and peacefully through the profound and universal language of Art'. 
  
• Bhavan Centre  - Institute of Indian Culture
  Old Church Buildings 4a Castletown Road
  London W14 9HQ
  Tel: 020 7381 3086
  www.bhavan.net 
  
• Central Space 
  23-29 Faroe Road
  London W14 0EL 
  Tel: 020 8960 5015 
  
• Esmond Robinson Framing & Gallery
  250 - 252 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 0SP 
  Tel: 020 8222 0008
  www.esmondrobinson.co.uk
  
• Kings Court Galleries
  949-953 Fulham Road 
  London SW6 5HY 
  Tel: 020 7610 6939
  www.kingscourtgalleries.co.uk
  
• Leighton House Museum 
  12 Holland Park Road
  London W14 8LZ 
  Tel: 020 7602 3316
  www.rbkc.gov.uk/leightonhousemuseum
  
• Lennox Gallery
  77 Moore Park Rd, SW6 
  Tel: 020 7736 3326
  www.lennoxgallery.co.uk
  Specialists in Scottish & British Contemporary Art in the Colourist tradition. 
  
• Maya Guatemalan Indian Centre
  94 Wandsworth Bridge Road, SW6 2TF   
  Tel: 020 7371 5291
  www.maya.org.uk
  The centre operates as a small cultural and educational centre dedicated to the Maya of the Guatemala. Changing exhibitions of Indian Life & Weaving, programme of films & lectures, and craft shop. Free Admission. Limited opening hours, call for details. 
  
• Olympia
  Hammersmith Road
  London W14 8UX
  Tel: 020 7385 1200
  www.eco.co.uk
  
• Piers Feetham Gallery
  475 Fulham Road, SW6 
  Tel: 020 7381 3031
  www.piersfeethamgallery.com
  
• Roman Black Gallery
  602 Fulham Rd, SW6 
  Tel: 020 7731 3318
  www.romanblackgallery.com
  
• Scott Thompson Bridge Gallery
  90-92 Hammersmith Bridge Road, W6 9DB
  Tel: 020 8563 1578
  www.scottthompsongallery.co.uk
  Photography gallery specialising in pictures of Hammersmith and West London
  
• Start Gallery
  493 Fulham Palace Road, SW6 
  Tel: 020 7371 0909
  
• Sundancer Gallery 
  462 Fulham Road
  London SW6 1BY 
  Tel: 020 7386 0414
  
• Will's Art Warehouse 
  Unit 3 Heathman's Road
  London SW6 4TJ 
  Tel: 020 7371 8787
  www.wills-art.com
  Will's Art Warehouse makes art more affordable all work is priced between £50 and £3,000and each piece has lots of information beside it so that visitors or prospective buyers are helped in their understanding of the work, however much or little they know about art. Will’s Art Warehouse to be "The Oddbins of the Art World".
  
• Zest Gallery
  Roxby Place
  London SW6 1RS
  Tel: 020 7610 1900
  www.zestgallery.com
  ZeST Gallery is London's newest destination for contemporary glass         

Artists' Studios

• Faroe Road
  23-29 Faroe Road, London W14 0EL, Brook Green
  
• Hetley Road
  62 Hetley Road, London W12 8BB
  29 September private viewings
  30 September-1 October open to public 12pm-6pm
  
• Palace Wharf, Fulham
  Ground Floor, 56 Rainville Road, London W6 9HS
  
• ACAVA offer artists work space. These studios are open to the public specific weekends during the year.
  
• Faroe Road
  15 September private viewings
  16/17 September open to public 1pm-6pm
  
• Palace Wharf
  22 September private viewings
  23/24 September open to public 12pm-6pm
  www.acava.org        

Literary figures who have lived and worked in Hammersmith & Fulham

A.P.Herbert: lived at 12 Hammersmith Terrace
Arnold Bennett: lived briefly at 9 Fulham Park Gardens
Ernest Bramah: lived at Hamlet Gardens Mansions 
William Morris: lived at Kelmscott House, Upper Mall
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: lived briefly at 7 Portland Place (now Addison Bridge Place)
Henry Fielding: lived in Fulham Palace Road
Sir Henry Rider Haggard: lived at 69 Gunterstone Road
W.E Henley: lived in St Peter's Square and at Devonport Road
Leigh Hunt: lived at 7 Cornwall Road (now 16 Rowan Road)
Edward Bulwer Lytton: lived at Craven Cottage 
George Macdonald: lived at Kelmscott House
Sir Compton Mackenzie: lived at 54 Avonmore Road
Capt Frederick Marryat:  lived at Sussex House, Fulham Palace Road
Naomi Mitchison: lived at Rivercourt House, Upper Mall
John Osborne: lived in St Maur Road as a child
Ouida:  lived in Ravenscourt Square
Arthur Ransome: lived at 40 Hurlingham Court
Charles Reade: lived at 3 Blomfield Villas
Samuel Richardson: lived at The Grange, North End 
Antonia White: lived at 22 Perham Road as a child
Mary Wollstonecraft: lived at 1 King's Row, Fulham Road
W.B. Yeats:  lived at Edith Road
J.B. Priestley: lived briefly at 18 King Edward Mansions, Fulham Road
Ezra Pound: lived briefly at 10 Rowan Road