Nunnery Café Exhibition | Good Wives and Warriors
Tuesday 15th July 2025 – Sunday 16th November 2025 , 8:00am to 3:00pm
For our current Nunnery Café exhibition, we’re proud to present a showcase of work by Bow Road studio holders Good Wives and Warriors. To Take a Leaf out a Book will show the workings of their richly illustrated picture books, featuring their original hand painted illustrations and published books filled with mythical creatures, plants and animals.
Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell have been working collaboratively as Good Wives and Warriors for nearly 20 years since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art. Their work has been featured in The Guardian, New Scientist and on the BBC, as well as in illustrated campaigns for Ren Skincare, Tiger Beer, Absolut, Adidas, Swatch and Tic-Tac. They are now primarily illustrating elaborate non-fiction children’s books for publishers such as Laurence King, Big Picture Press, Wide Eyed Press, Penguin and Puffin. Their studio is right above the Nunnery Café!
Image credits: Good Wives and Warriors
More about Good Wives and Warriors
Nunnery Cafe exhibitions
This is the fithteenth exhibition in our series of shows in the Nunnery Café, which showcase affordable works of art from Bow Arts artists. All works are for sale and original works priced between £100 – £2500 are available to purchase using Own Art. This is a national scheme that allows buyers to spread the cost of purchasing an artwork over 10 monthly instalments, interest-free.
Previous Nunnery Café exhibitionists include: Alvaro Samuel Castro, Hayley Kay Adams, Jiacun Li, Loose Associations, Tom Berry, Emily Vanns, Matilda Ellis, Will Redgrove, Amy Browne, Bhajan Hunjan, Haidée Drew, Javi Cazenave, and Jessica Jane Charleston.
Access information
The Nunnery Café has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this event or would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of attending, please email nunnery@bowarts.com
Transport Information
Opening hours: Tues-Fri 8am – 2pm ; Saturday 8am – 3pm; Sunday 9am – 2pm
Address: Nunnery Cafe, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.