List of public art in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Bethnal Green
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Blind Beggar and His Dog | Cranbrook Estate 51.5298°N 0.0449133°W |
1958 | Elisabeth Frink | N/A | Sculptural group | Bronze | Grade II* | [1] | |
Stairway to Heaven Bethnal Green tube station disaster |
Bethnal Green tube station | 2017 | N/A | Harry Paticas | War memorial | N/A | [2] |
Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Testa Addormentata | Corner of Bank Street and Upper Bank Street | 1983 | Igor Mitoraj | [3] | ||||
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Couple on a Seat | Cabot Square | 1984 | Lynn Chadwick | [4] | ||||
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London River Man | Ensign House, Marsh Wall | 1987 | John W. Mills | Bronze | figure 145 cm (57 in) high | [5] | ||
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Centurione I | Columbus Courtyard | 1987 | Igor Mitoraj | [6] | ||||
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Spirit of Enterprise | South Dock, Canary Wharf 51°30′9.83″N 0°1′29.04″W |
1987 | Wendy Taylor | [7] | ||||
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Leap | Jamestown Harbour | 1987–1989 | Franta Belsky | [8] | ||||
Domino Players | Clove Crescent | 1992 | Kim Bennet | [9] | |||||
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Two Men on a Bench | Cabot Square | 1990 | Giles Penny | [10] | ||||
Gate | Westferry Circus | 1992 | Giuseppe Lund | [11] | |||||
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Centauro | Upper Bank Street | 1994 | Igor Mitoraj | [12] | ||||
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Man With Arms Open | West India Avenue | 1995 | Giles Penny | [13] | ||||
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Figurehead for Docklands | Poplar Dock | 1997 | Anna Bisset | [14] | ||||
Portrait relief of Michael von Clemm | Cabot Square | 1998 | Gerald Laing | [15] | |||||
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Traffic Light Tree | roundabout on Trafalgar Way, outside Billingsgate Market (since 2013) | 1998 | Pierre Vivant | [16] | ||||
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Original Form | 25 North Colonnade | 1999 | Keith Rand | [17] | ||||
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Six Public Clocks | Reuters Plaza | 1999 | Konstantin Grcic | [18] | ||||
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Vanishing Point | Westferry Circus | 1999 | Jay Battle | [19] | ||||
Windwand | Canary Riverside 51°30′20.87″N 0°1′41.43″W |
2000 | Ron Arad | carbon fibre | 50 m high | [20] | |||
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Returning to Embrace | 10 Cabot Square | 2000 | Jon Buck | [21] | ||||
Speaking of the River | Canary Riverside 51°30′22.48″N 0°1′43.72″W |
2000 | Constance DeJong | audio benches | [20] | ||||
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Hibbert Gate | Adjacent to North Dock West | 2000 | Leo Stevenson | [22] | ||||
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Columbus Screen | Columbus Courtyard | 2000 | Wendy Ramshaw | [23] | ||||
12 Planters | Columbus Courtyard 51°30′22.53″N 0°1′30.69″W |
2001–2002 | Tatiana Orloff | bronze | [20] | ||||
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It Takes Two | One Canada Square | 2002 | Bob Allen | [24] | ||||
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HSBC lions | 8 Canada Square | 2002 | after W. W. Wagstaff | |||||
Arbor | Montgomery Square | 2003 | Nigel Ross | [25] | |||||
Cross Way | Montgomery Square | 2003 | Nigel Ross | [25] | |||||
Sacrificial Anode | Montgomery Square | 2007 | Eilis O'Connell | [26] | |||||
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Sasso Cosmico | Westferry Circus | 2007 | Do König Vassilakis | [27] | ||||
Chimney | Westferry Circus 51°30′19.74″N 0°1′34.55″W |
2008 | Andrew Burton | recycled fired bricks, steel | [20] | ||||
Avatar | Westferry Circus | 2009 | Robert Worley | [28] | |||||
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Torsion II | Bank Street, Jubilee Park exit | 2009–2011 | Charles Hadcock | [29] | ||||
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Drawing Cube (Blue) | Montgomery Square | 2010 | Suresh Dutt | [30]
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Renaissance | Nutmeg Lane, East India Dock | Maurice Blik | [31] |
Mile End and Bow
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of William Ewart Gladstone | In front of Bow Church, Bow Road | 1882 | Albert Bruce-Joy | Statue | Grade II | |
Bust of Edward VII | 39 Mile End Road | 1911 | ? | Bust | Grade II | Unveiled 12 October 1911.[32] | |
Memorial to George Lansbury | Bow Road | 1955 | Memorial | N/A | [33] | ||
Statue of Clement Attlee | Queen Mary University of London Mile End campus | 1988 | Frank Forster | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 30 November 1988 in its original location, outside Limehouse Library, by Harold Wilson, the last living member of Attlee's cabinet.[34] The figure holds a copy of the National Assistance Act 1948. In 2005 the work was badly vandalised and was boxed up to prevent further damage; it was removed to its current location in 2010.[35] Peter Mandelson gave the statue its second unveiling on 4 April 2011.[36] | |
Knowledge | Library Square, Queen Mary University of London Mile End campus | 2003 | Wendy Taylor | Sculpture | N/A | An abstract representation of knowledge in stainless steel. The sphere with its smooth surface stands for the world and the ease with which knowledge can spread and be shared. The arms attached to the globe represent the giving and acceptance of knowledge.[37] | |
Elephant in the Room | Library Square, Queen Mary University of London Mile End campus | 2017 | Hannah Stewart and Chierol Lai | Sculpture | N/A | A sculpture in bronze resin of a sleeping baby elephant, intended to raise awareness of mental health issues and commissioned following a competition run by Queen Mary Students' Union.[38][39] |
Poplar
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Richard Green | East India Dock Road | 1865/6 | Edward William Wyon | Statue | Grade II | [40] |
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Children's Memorial | Poplar Recreation Ground | 1919 | A. R. Adams | Grade II | Unveiled 23 June 1919.[41] Commemorates the 18 children who were killed in a bombing raid (the first daylight raid of World War I) on Upper North Street School on 13 June 1917.[42] | |
Shadow Play | In front of Compass House, Mulberry Place | 1992 | Dave King | [40] | |||
Mariner's Astrolabe, Virginia Settlers Monument | Jamestown Way | 1999 | Wendy Taylor | Grade II | [40] | ||
Acorn Wall Relief | Brunswick Wharf | 2003 | Wendy Taylor | [40] | |||
Statue of Teddy Baldock | Langdon Park | 2014 | Carl Payne | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 15 May 2014.[43] | |
Meridians and Metaphors | Near the junction of Clove Crescent and Saffron Avenue | David Jacobson |
Wapping
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Cannon | Entrance to St Katharine Docks | 18th century | [44] | ||||
Anchor of Amsterdam | St Katharine Docks, at entrance to East Dock | 1748 (placed here 1980s) | [44] | ||||
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Girl with Dolphin | Beside River Thames between Tower Bridge and entrance to docks | 1973 | David Wynne | [44] | ||
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Timepiece | Entrance to St Katharine Docks | 1973 | Wendy Taylor | Grade II | [44] | |
Elephants | Entrance to Ivory House, on gateposts | 1973 | Peter Drew | [44] | |||
Geese | Thomas More Street | 1990 | David Norris | [44] | |||
To Meet Again | Thomas More Street | 1990 | Michael Beck | [44] | |||
Angelic Musician | Thomas More Street | 1991 | Carl Milles | [44] | |||
Exotic Birds and other sculptures | Various locations around St Katharine Docks | 1995–97 | Paula Haughney | [44] | |||
Rope Circle | Hermitage Basin | 1997 | Wendy Taylor | [44] | |||
Voyager | Cinnabar Wharf East | 2000 | Wendy Taylor | [44] |
Shadwell
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial to Edward VII | King Edward Memorial Park | 1922 | Bertram Mackennal | Drinking fountain (formerly) | The bronze portrait medallion of Edward VII was stolen in 2007.[45] | ||
Navigators' Memorial | King Edward Memorial Park | 1922 | ? | Commemorative stone | [45] |
Spitalfields
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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I Goat | Brushfield Street | 2011 | Kenny Hunter | Sculpture | N/A | [46] |
Vortex | Lamb Street | 1999 | Barbara Sandler | Sculpture | N/A | [47] |
Tower Hill
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Merchant Navy First World War Memorial | Trinity Square Gardens 51.5096°N 0.0777°W |
1928 | William Reid Dick | Edwin Lutyens | War memorial | Grade I | [48] |
Memorial to Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield | 41 Trinity Square | 1937 | Cecil Thomas | N/A | Portrait plaque | Grade II | [49] | |
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Merchant Navy Second World War Memorial | Trinity Square Gardens 51.5097°N 0.0780°W |
1952 | Charles Wheeler | Edward Maufe | War memorial | Grade II* | [50] |
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Statue of Trajan | Trinity Place 51.5099°N 0.0762°W |
20th century, after an original of the 2nd century AD | ? | N/A | Statue | N/A | [51] |
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Sundial | Wakefield Gardens, outside Tower Hill tube station | 1992 | Edwin Russell | John Chitty and Mike Duffie (landscape architects) | Sundial | N/A | [52] |
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Merchant Navy Falklands War Memorial | Trinity Square Gardens 51.5097°N 0.0771°W |
2005 | Gordon Newton | N/A | War memorial | N/A | [53] |
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The Building Worker | Tower Hill 51.5094°N 0.0756°W |
2006 | Alan Wilson | N/A | Statue | N/A | [54] |
Hackney
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts |
Victoria Park 51.53707°N 0.03965°W |
1862 | N/A | Henry Astley Darbishire | Drinking fountain | Grade II* | [55] |
Wapping
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Bluecoat Girl | Raine's House | ? | Statue in niche | ||||
Bluecoat Boy | Raine's House | ? | Statue in niche | ||||
Bust of John Rennie the Elder | Spirit Quay | 1992 | John Ravera | Bust | N/A | [45] | |
Memorial to the Civilians of East London, 2nd World War 1939–1945 | Hermitage Riverside Memorial Garden | 2008 | Wendy Taylor | Sculpture | N/A | Unveiled in July 2008 by Hazel Blears, then the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and Alf Roffey, a survivor of the Blitz. On the site of Hermitage Wharf, which was destroyed in a bombing raid on 29 December 1940.[56] |
Whitechapel and Stepney
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Alexandra of Denmark | Whitechapel Road, behind the Royal London Hospital | 1908 | George Edward Wade | Grade II | [57] | ||
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Edward VII Memorial Drinking Fountain | Mile End Road | 1911 | William Silver Frith | Grade II | [58] | |
Bust of William Booth | Mile End Road | 1927 | George Edward Wade | [59] | |||
Statue of William Booth | Mile End Road | 1979 (casting) | George Edward Wade | [60] | |||
Les Naïdes | 45 Whitechapel Road | 1985 | Ivor Abrahams | [60] | |||
Spitalfields Column | Middlesex Street | 1995 | Richard Perry | ||||
Ram and Magpie | Allen Gardens Playground, Buxton Street | 1996 | Paula Haughny | ||||
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Altab Ali Park, on the corner of Whitechapel Road and White Church Lane | 1999 | Shaheed Minar | [60] | |||
Statue of Catherine Booth | Mile End Road | 2015 | After an original by George Edward Wade | Statue | N/A | Unveiled 2 July 2015.[61] | |
Goodman's Fields Horses | Goodman's Fields Piazza | 2015 | Hamish Mackie | N/A | Winner of the PMSA's Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Fountains.[62] |
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See also
- Draped Seated Woman 1957–58 ("Old Flo") by Henry Moore, installed at Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, "for at least five years" from 2017[63]
- List of public art formerly in London for the statue of Robert Milligan (by Richard Westmacott), Faun with Goose (George Ehrlich) and Woman with Fish (Frank Dobson)
References
- Historic England. "Blind Beggar and his Dog Cranbrook Estate (1031598)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- "Bethnal Green Underground Station Civilians (Stairway to Heaven)", War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museums, retrieved 13 April 2018
- Igor Mitoraj: Testa Addormentata, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Lynn Chadwick: Couple on a Seat, retrieved 5 April 2015
- "Mills, John W., London River Man – PMSA". VADS: the online resource for visual arts. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- Igor Mitoraj: Centurione I, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- SCULPTURE IN THE WORKPLACE
- 'Leap', Jamestown Harbour, Isle of Dogs, London, Henry Moore Institute, archived from the original on 13 April 2015, retrieved 5 April 2015
- The Sporting Statues Project: Domino Players: East India Dock, London Accessed 24 October 2014
- Giles Penny: Two Men on a Bench, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Giusseppe [sic] Lund: Gate—sculptural railings, Canary Wharf, retrieved 18 April 2015
- Igor Mitoraj: Centauro I, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Giles Penny: Man with Arms Open, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- "Canary Wharf & East India Docks". Exploring East London. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- Gerald Laing: Relief portrait of Michael von Clemm, Canary Wharf, retrieved 17 April 2015
- "The Traffic Light Tree, Pierre Vivant 1998", CityNoise, archived from the original on 18 April 2010, retrieved 31 March 2010
- Keith Rand: Original Form, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Konstantin Grcic: Six Public Clocks, Canary Wharf, retrieved 18 April 2015
- Jay Battle: Vanishing Point, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Art Map – Public Art at Canary Wharf, Canary Wharf Group
- Jon Buck: Returning to Embrace, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Leo Stevenson:The Hibbert Gate, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Wendy Ramshaw: Columbus Screen, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Public and Corporate Commissions | Bob Allen – Sculptor Archived 2010-02-19 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 4 April 2010
- Nigel Ross: Cross Way / Arbor, Canary Wharf, retrieved 17 June 2015
- Eilis O'Connell: Sacrificial Anode, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Do König Vassilakis: Sasso Cosmico, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Robert Worley: Avatar, Canary Wharf, retrieved 17 June 2015
- Charles Hadcock: Torsion II, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- Drawing Cube (Blue), Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
- 'Renaissance' – East India Dock, London, UK. – Commissions – Maurice Bilk Accessed 24 October 2014
- "Edward VII", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 11 January 2016
- Matthews 2018, p. 247.
- "Clement Attlee", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 1 June 2015
- Matthews 2018, p. 247
- Lord Mandelson joins Lord Hennessy to unveil Clement Attlee statue, Queen Mary, University of London, 5 April 2011, archived from the original on 18 August 2011, retrieved 1 June 2015
- Knowledge, Art UK, retrieved 7 May 2020
- Elephant in the Room, Art UK, retrieved 7 May 2020
- Tanatarova, Elmira (25 September 2017), "New mental health statues installed on campus", The Print, retrieved 6 August 2020
- Poplar's Free Art & History. Accessed 14 November 2010
- "Bombed School Memorial", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 16 June 2015
- Matthews 2018, pp. 243–244
- "Teddy Baldock", The Sporting Statues Project, retrieved 26 December 2019
- "St Katharine's Dock". Exploring East London. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- Matthews 2018, p. 243.
- Historic England. "The Mercantile Marine First World War Memorial (1260087)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 415.
- Historic England. "Merchant Seamens Memorial (1031597)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- Ward-Jackson 2003, p. 407.
- "Sundial", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, archived from the original on 8 April 2018, retrieved 7 April 2018
- "Merchant Navy Falklands", War Memorials Register, Imperial War Museums, retrieved 7 April 2018
- van der Krogt, René; van der Krogt, Peter, "The Building Worker", Statues – Hither & Thither, retrieved 7 April 2018
- Historic England. "Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain (1235552)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- "Peace dove gardens unveiled for London's Blitz dead", The Docklands & East London Advertiser, 18 July 2008, retrieved 17 June 2015
- Historic England. "Statue in rear courtyard of the London Hospital (1065789)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- Historic England. "King Edward VII Jewish Memorial Drinking Fountain opposite to main entrance of London Hospital (1065821)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). pp. 866–876. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
- Rigal, Lawrence, "Whitechapel", Exploring East London, retrieved 8 June 2015
- "Founders' Day commemorates 150 years", Boundless: The Salvation Army International Congress, 2 July 2015, retrieved 8 November 2016
- 3rd Dimension, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, retrieved 7 November 2016
- Kennedy, Maev (25 October 2017), "Henry Moore's sculpture "Old Flo" returns to east London", The Guardian, retrieved 27 October 2017
Bibliography
- Matthews, Peter (2018), London's Statues and Monuments, Oxford: Shire PublicationsCS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003), Public Sculpture of the City of London, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University PressCS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
External links
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