London’s artists, illustrators & makers
London is home to hundreds of galleries, art schools and studios – but it’s the artists themselves who really drive the city’s creative spirit. Find out more about the makers and creators who've found inspiration in this artistic capital.
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Art & DesignSteve McQueen: Putting London on screen
This Oscar-winning west Londoner has made vital films about London’s people and history
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Art & DesignWho were the Young British Artists?
How a group of rebellious, mostly London-based artists changed the 1990s art world
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Art & DesignThe pioneering pottery of the Martin Brothers
Sea monster matchstick holders, giant bird tobacco jars, misshapen stoneware vases
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Trades & WorkersLocket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry
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Art & DesignThomas Rowlandson’s satirical London drawings
Laughing at life in the 18th and 19th century
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Rights & ActivismSylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, artist, activist
This famous votes-for-women campaigner set herself apart as an artist and social activist
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Art & DesignWenceslaus Hollar’s etchings of fashion & fire
A 17th-century recorder of women’s clothes and London's skyline
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Art & DesignPreserving a London Fields squat in the 1990s
Tom Hunter’s detailed model of his Hackney neighbourhood helped save it from demolition
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Art & DesignGraham Sutherland’s eerie Blitz drawings
This south London-born artist recorded the carnage of the Second World War
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Art & DesignGustave Doré’s London pilgrimage
The artist’s gloomy illustrations recall his 19th-century trips through the poverty-stricken city
