For the July edition of Marguerite, Sid Motion, Director of London's eponymous Sid Motion Gallery was in conversation with Liz Jobey, Associate Editor of FT Weekend Magazine. Sid and Liz discussed Sid's experiences of setting up the newly-opened Sid Motion Gallery, the inaugural show titled ‘What’s it going to be?’ and her plans for the future. Such a wonderful evening made all the better by ice cream sarnies served by Milo & Hector's, popcorn supplied by Propercorn and aperol aplenty!

Marguerite members enjoyed a fabulous champagne afternoon tea at The Delaunay with Julia Peyton-Jones, former Director of Serpentine Galleries (1991-2016) and Director of Serpentine Summer Programmes 2016 and Gregor Muir, Executive Director of the ICA since 2011 and soon-to-be Director of Tate's International Art Collection! 

Julia Peyton-Jones, who raised visitor numbers by hundreds of thousands and famously hosted Tilda Swinton asleep in Cornelia Parker’s glass box, is to step down from Serpentine Galleries in July 2016 after 25 years. Quizzed by her good friend and fellow London Institution Director, Gregor Muir, Julia shared tales of her long and triumphant career in the art world.

British portrait and fashion photographer, RANKIN welcomed members of Marguerite to his Kentish Town studio for an exclusice studio visit, complete with full hair and make up and individual portrait shoots by the man himself. What. A. Night. 

Collector and Founder of Valeria Napoleone XX (which brings work by female artists to museums in England and America), Valeria Napoleone welcomed members of Marguerite to her beautiful Kensington home to share her experiences of collecting over the past 25 years. 

'The career of socialite, collector, patron and salonniere Peggy Guggenheim must be the most mind-bogglingly eventful in the history of 20th-century art.' 

London's ICA hosted a screening of Lisa Vreeland's documentary, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict for members of Marguerite. Perfect given that Marguerite is named after Peggy herself! What a woman. 

Assemble are a London-based collective who work across the fields of art, architecture and design. They began working together in 2010 and are comprised of 18 members. Assemble’s working practice seeks to address the typical disconnection between the public and the process by which places are made. Assemble champion a working practice that is interdependent and collaborative, seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator in the on-going realisation of the work.

Assemble's Joe Halligan kindly gave Marguerite members a tour of their Stratford studios before the group went on to win The Turner Prize in December 2015!