The Greenside Mural is by Gordon Cullen, painted in 1952-53 as part of Erno Goldfinger's design for
The Friends of the Greenside Mural was formed to help raise funds to restore and maintain the Gordon Cullen mural in the foyer of Greenside Primary School. The Greenside Arts Lectures both raise funds for the restoration and celebrate the rich artistic heritage of Hammersmith and the immediate surroundings.
12/09/2025
Open House Festival at Greenside Primary School - we're open 12-5pm Sunday 21st September 2025 - please pop along - wonderful Goldfinger architecture, Gordon Cullen mural, free guided tours and a vintage tearoom by the school's parents - free to enter
Come and see the mural! On Saturday 17th September 2022 we will be running tours of the Erno Goldfinger designed school including the fine Gordon Cullen mural in the foyer. Join all the excitement of our Bouncing Off the Wall! 20th Century Graphic Arts Fair in the school hall - get refreshments at the Vintage Tearoom - have an informative tour of the school and mural! All this and a talk by Alan Powers on Riverside Days and Nights - the literary & artistic community in inter-war Hammersmith, including Eric Ravilious, Robert Graves, Len Lye and many more. Plus live music from The Two Postmen (aka Jonny Hannah and Pete Lloyd)
05/02/2018
Friends of the Greenside Mural have just bought two chairs for the foyer area at Greenside School - firstly to reduce the damage that the existing chairs were doing to the mural as they rubbed against it (with metal struts) and secondly to look more mid-century - at least one of those is working :)
12/09/2017
12/09/2017
Greenside Primary School – London Sunday 18th September and this enchanting school had thrown open its doors to an awaiting and admiring wider world – I know, I was there, having travelled down by train from Manchester with m…
That's better - just replaced the cover photo with the restored mural....
27/07/2016
A striking linocut of the Thames that Neil Jennings will be bringing along to Bouncing Off the Wall! on 18th September:
Helmuth Weissenborn
Thames at Chiswick, 1967
Linocut on coloured japanese paper, initialled in the block
by the artist.
Reference: Nyburg pp 135-6.
£325
27/07/2016
I love this watercolour that Neil Jennings is bringing to the Bouncing Off the Wall! on 18th September:
Malvina Cheek
Brookman’s Park Folly Arch, Hertfordshire
Watercolour, c.1950s.
Annotated verso, ‘mostly of John’, by the artist.
A strikingly similar watercolour of the same subject by
Barbara Jones is illustrated on p.344 of ‘Follies &
Grottoes’.
Provenance: The artist's family.
£840