111 Hidden Art Treasures in London That You Shouldn't Miss
GUIDE
The hidden art of London is for the ever-curious roamer of both the back streets and the familiar places you never quite see - churches, gardens, graveyards, pubs. What little garden finds the poet John Keats sitting in the corner of a bench? Which abandoned building tells the story of a great Roman Road?
There are always marvels hidden in plain view - the back corner of a museum containing great sculptures by Rodin or the naked, street-corner golden boy, who marks where the Great Fire of London finally petered out. A famous literary cat or a painting by Hogarth on the bend of a stairs in an ancient hospital.
This guidebook takes you exploring London beyond its most famous sights to find the art we have never quite noticed before: the hidden statues, paintings, and murals that have escaped from the official museums, and often live unnoticed lives in tucked away places.
Michael Glover
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, London-based poet, art critic, editor and publisher who has contributed regularly to The Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and The Economist. He was born in Fir Vale, Sheffield, was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, and read English at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He has been a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York. His on-line, international poetry journal, The Bow-Wow Shop (www.bowwowshop.org.uk) first went online in 2009. His most recent books are: Great Works: Encounters with Art (Prestel), Only So Much (his seventh collection of poetry), and Headlong into Pennilessness, a memoir of growing up in Sheffield. Two collections of poetry are coming soon: Hypothetical May Morning and The Book of Extremities.
Benedict Flett
Benedict Flett was born in London, and has been using a camera of some sort since he was twelve. He studied Human, Social and Political Science at Queens' College Cambridge, and Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. He is the photographer of 111 Churches in London That You Shouldn’t Miss and 111 Hidden Art Treasures in London That You Shouldn’t Miss, and published a book of photos made in Belarus with ZONE6 Press in 2021. He is passionate about exploring, documenting and writing about landscapes – mythic, wild and rationalised.
