List of public art in Pimlico
This is a list of public art in Pimlico, a district in the City of Westminster, London.
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of William Huskisson | Pimlico Gardens 51°29′08″N 0°08′00″W |
1836 | John Gibson | N/A | Statue | Grade II | Commissioned for a site outside the Custom House in Liverpool. This was Gibson's second version of the statue originally in Huskisson's mausoleum in St James Cemetery, Liverpool (now in the Walker Art Gallery).[1] Moved to the Royal Exchange before coming to the present site in 1915.[2] |
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St Saviour's War Memorial | St Saviour's Church, Lupus Street 51°29′19″N 0°08′08″W |
after 1918 | ? | N/A | Crucifix | Grade II | Commemorates parishioners who died in both World Wars.[3] |
Obelisk | Walden House | c. 1930 | Arnrid Johnson | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | A three-sided sculptural group (badly weathered on two sides) of children playing, with a base depicting groups of animals in the round, all in Portland stone. The critic Kineton Parkes considered this to be Johnson's most important work.[4] | |
Dolphin mosaic | Dolphin Square | c. 1937 | ? | N/A | Mosaic | N/A | This mosaic, which has been described as having an "Hellenic" appearance, was originally situated at the main entrance of the Dolphin Square development but was moved to its present location during renovation work.[5] | |
Spot motif | Pimlico tube station platforms | 1972 | c.Peter Sedgley | N/A | Tiled pattern | N/A | The motif of yellow spray bursts on a white background was inspired by Sedgley's own op art painting of 1968, Go.[6] | |
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Cooling Tower Panels | Bessborough Street, Drummond Gate 51°29′21″N 0°07′59″W |
1979–1982 | Eduardo Paolozzi | Whitfield Partners | Sculpture | Grade II | Paolozzi's cast iron relief panels, painted in aluminium, encase the cooling equipment for the air conditioning of Pimlico tube station. Conceived as a "pivot or 'marker'" on the route from the tube station to the Tate Gallery, it was described by the architects as "an opportunity to transform a mechanical necessity into a genuine sculpture". Commissioned by the Crown Estate Commissioners.[7] |
Dolphin Fountain | Dolphin Square 51°29′11″N 0°08′10″W |
1987 | James Butler | N/A | Fountain with sculptural group | N/A | Installed to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of Dolphin Square.[5] | |
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Statue of Thomas Cubitt | Denbigh Street 51°29′19″N 0°08′19″W |
1994–95 | William Fawke | N/A | Statue | N/A | The site is adjacent to that of the workshops used by Cubitt in the building of Pimlico. He is depicted with a yardstick in hand, selecting a brick to measure from underneath the tarpaulin. Another cast of the statue is in Dorking, Surrey.[8] |
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The Helmsman | Pimlico Gardens 51°29′07″N 0°08′04″W |
1996 | André Wallace | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | Wallace is primarily interested in subjects involving journeys or transportation. This sculpture, of a figure at the helm of a boat, was the winning entry in a competition between five artists; it was felt to reflect the area's maritime history.[9] |
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River Cut Tide | Riverside walk adjacent to Grosvenor Road 51°29′09″N 0°07′56″W |
2002 | Paul Mason | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | Also nearby is a slate tablet, again by Mason, marking the site of the confluence of the river Tyburn and the Thames.[10] |
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Roller Skater | Vauxhall Bridge Road 51°29′27″N 0°08′03″W |
2010 | André Wallace | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | The artist wished to make a sculpture "that would be positive and dynamic and reflect the youth and vitality of an urban street."[11] |
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Shack Stack | Grosvenor Waterside | 2010 | Richard Wilson | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | A sculpture in aluminium inspired by the ramshackle nature of the sheds often found in British allotments.[12] |
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The Queen Mother's Commemorative Fountain | Bessborough Gardens 51°29′19″N 0°07′49″W |
1980 | Peter Shepheard | N/A | Fountain | N/A | A fountain in aluminium based on a cast of a George John Vulliamy streetlamp base from the Thames Embankment featuring two sturgeon.[13][14] |
References
- Bloy, Marjorie (2011), "William Huskisson (1770–1830)", A Web of English History, retrieved 24 May 2012
- Bradley & Pevsner 2003, p. 781.
- "St Saviours Parishioners WW1 and WW2", War Memorials Archive, Imperial War Museums, retrieved 19 July 2012
- Fraser 2014, pp. 370–371.
- Westminster City Council 2008, p. 31.
- Glinert 2012, p. 221.
- Paolozzi 1984, p. 30.
- "Gallery 1", William Fawke ARBS, retrieved 2 January 2013
- "Ship Ahoy! 1", Secret London, retrieved 2 January 2013
- Westminster City Council 2006, p. 46.
- Jury, Louise (20 August 2010), "Roller skate sculpture rolls with it in Pimlico", Evening Standard, retrieved 19 July 2012
- "Shack Stack", Richard Wilson, retrieved 6 September 2014
- "Bessborough Gardens Pimlico", Gardenvisit.com, retrieved 4 October 2014
- Hibbert et al. 2011, p. 63.
Bibliography
- Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003), London 6: Westminster, The Buildings of England, London and New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-09595-1CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Fraser, Inga (2014), "The 'English Independents': Some twentieth-century women carvers", Sculpture Journal, 23 (3): 369–78, doi:10.3828/sj.2015.8
- Glinert, Ed (2012), The London Compendium: A street-by-street exploration of the hidden metropolis, London: Penguin, ISBN 978-0-718-19204-4
- Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2011), The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.), Macmillan, ISBN 9780230738782
- Paolozzi, Eduardo (1984), Robinson, Marlee (ed.), Eduardo Paolozzi: Private Vision—Public Art, London: Architectural Association Publications, ISBN 978-0904503500CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Westminster City Council (April 2006), Conservation Area Audit: Pimlico (PDF), retrieved 9 August 2014
- ——— (23 October 2008), Conservation Area Audit & Management Proposals: Dolphin Square (PDF), retrieved 8 August 2014
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