Enid Marx: the maverick textile artist who changed tube commutes for ever

Her fabric designs jazzed up the London Underground and though Queen Elizabeth II rejected her idea for a stamp, her work made a permanent cultural imprint, as a new exhibition reveals Last time you travelled on the London Underground, here’s guessing you didn’t stop to think about how you were sitting on art history. Yet tube fabrics have a fascinating place in the development of British design. And now the woman at the centre of their story is the subject of an exhibition that aims to weave her back into the narrative, after a long period when her contribution was overlooked. Enid Marx ’s de

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