Chelsea Old Town Hall

Currently hosting the London Art Biennale, the Chelsea Old Town Hall is a late Victorian era municipal building.  Some famous names were married here, including Marc Bolan of Glam rock band T Rex, Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, French-Polish film director Roman Polanski (to American actress Sharon Tate), and Judy Garland (to her 5th husband, nightclub manager Mickey Deans, just 3 months before her June 1969 death in London at age 47).

Stephen Tomlin, Sculptor

The Philip Mould Gallery in St. James's is exhibiting the work of Bloomsbury Group sculptor Stephen Tomlin.  Virginia Woolf bemoaned Tomlin's "tragic, wasted life" when he died in 1937, aged only 35, due to a dissolute lifestyle marked by alcohol & drug abuse.

Tomlin's bust of Virginia Woolf, author of Mrs. Dalloway.

Stephen Tomlin

Tomlin's bust of Lytton Strachey,
Bloomsbury Group founder and author
of Eminent Victorians.

portrait of Tomlin

The Philip Mould Gallery on Pall Mall

This bakery, recently opened at the Kensington tube station,
specializes in cramiques, a brioche from Northern France.

  

Mall Galleries

The Mall Galleries is a modern art space in St. James's currently hosting Minerva 2023, a showcase for contemporary Japanese artists.

  

White Cube

White Cube is a contemporary art gallery in Bermondsey, near London Bridge.  Its current installation is by German sculptor Anselm Kiefer.