Local artists exhibit at historic Kelmscott House in Hammersmith

Creatives from H&F's Macbeth Centre are displaying their works on the walls of Arts & Crafts icon William Morris’ historic home.

Artist Gill Haynes with her oil on canvas painting, The Jaunty Angle, at the Kelmscott House 2023 exhibition

Kelmscott House, the former Hammersmith home of Morris, will show off the local artists' work alongside the museum's current exhibition. The famed arts society has carefully selected the students' pieces for the third year in a row.

Vanessa Manson from the William Morris Society said: "We are always delighted to host the Macbeth Centre exhibition and are particularly proud of this year's group. The students at Macbeth are incredibly talented artists and craft makers, and it gets more and more difficult to narrow down who we display each year."

Hammersmith & Fulham Council's Macbeth Centre offers dozens of arts and crafts classes starting after half term. Find the full list and sign up on our website.

Featured artists

The showcase features a wide variety of pieces from our talented learners, including portraits, textile paintings, woodwork, stained glass, ceramics and jewellery.

Talented artist Elena Sivachenko has been selected for a third year running. Her silver brooch, Ludmila: My Doctor's Heart, was picked this year.

"I was so happy for this recognition. It really helps my confidence. The Macbeth Centre has played an extraordinary role in my wellbeing," she said.

She originally made the piece of jewellery as gift for her doctor, Ludmila. "My doctor is very excited and honoured about her brooch being exhibited," Elena explained.

Pictured left to right are Gill Haynes, Elena Sivachenko and Ruben Agocs at last year's exhibition
Lucy Floyer's stained glass piece, Parakeets in Ealing

Lucy Floyer's stained glass piece, Parakeets in Ealing, was also selected at the Macbeth Centre's recent Arts & Crafts Exhibition.

She explained: "William Morris is an artist and designer I greatly admire, both for the work he produced and his philosophy of design and manufacturing, so it's a great honour for my work to be exhibited at Kelmscott House."

Visit the exhibition

The Macbeth Centre learners' exhibition is open every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, 2pm to 5pm, until Sunday 3 November. It's free for H&F residents.

The display is at the Coach House and basement of Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith W6 9TA – home of the William Morris Society, established in 1955.

The William Morris Society is also exhibiting a collection of objects donated by Helena Stephenson, who was an avid enthusiast of William Morris.

The society is dedicated to preserving his legacy and ideas of William Morris (1834-1896) who was an artist, designer, craftsman, writer and environmentalist. Morris dramatically changed the fashions and ideologies of the Victorian era, and he lived at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith from 1878 until his death in 1896.

Portraiture made by Macbeth Centre learners displayed at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 2024
Stained glass made by Macbeth Centre learners displayed at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 2024

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