Edith Grove Gallery

The Edith Grove Gallery was a commercial art space located at 10a Edith Grove, Chelsea, London, known for exhibiting contemporary art primarily during the 1990's. It hosted various art shows, including a two-woman show for artist Jill Mumford in 1995 and an exhibition for Rosamund de Tracy Kelly in 1990. The gallery benefited from its location on a street long associated with artists and cultural figures, with a rich bohemian history, which was a key part of its historical context. The gallery no longer appears to be in operation.

Cultural figures who are known to have resided there include artists and tile designers Evelyn and William de Morgan who lived at 17a from c. 1888-1919.

In the years leading up to World War I, the American singer Paul Draper (1886-1925) and his wife Muriel (1886-1952) hosted a famous salon at 19 Edith Grove. Their home was a magnet for leading musicians, artists and writers of the time, including Pablo Casals, Gertrude Stein, Igor Stravinsky, Henry James, John Singer Sargent, and the young Artur Rubinstein, forming a key part of London's "High Bohemia".

The street gained modern fame in the early 1960's when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Brian Jones shared a flat at 102 Edith Grove. Described as 'fetid', the place was the very antithesis of the 'rivals' to the clean-cut image of the Beatles. The flat was later recreated as an installation for the major touring exhibition about the band, 'Exhibitionism', organised by the Saatchi Gallery in 2016.

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