List of public art in Tower Hamlets

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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Notes
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More images		 Robert Milligan Museum of London Docklands
Hertsmere Road		 1813 Richard Westmacott
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More images		 Testa Addormentata Corner of Bank Street and Upper Bank Street 1983 Igor Mitoraj [1]
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More images		 Couple on a Seat Cabot Square 1984 Lynn Chadwick [2]
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More images		 Centurione I Columbus Courtyard 1987 Igor Mitoraj [3]
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More images		 Leap Jamestown Harbour 1987–9 Franta Belsky [4]
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More images		 Two Men on a Bench Cabot Square 1990 Giles Penny [5]
120x120px Gate Westferry Circus 1992 Giuseppe Lund [6]
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More images		 Centauro Upper Bank Street 1994 Igor Mitoraj [7]
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More images		 Man With Arms Open West India Avenue 1995 Giles Penny [8]
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More images		 Figurehead for Docklands Poplar Dock 1997 Anna Bisset [9]
120x120px Portrait relief of Michael von Clemm Cabot Square 1998 Gerald Laing [10]
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More images		 Traffic Light Tree roundabout on Trafalgar Way, outside Billingsgate Market (since 2013) 1998 Pierre Vivant [11]
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More images		 Original Form 25 North Colonnade 1999 Keith Rand [12]
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More images		 Six Public Clocks Reuters Plaza 1999 Konstantin Grcic [13]
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More images		 Vanishing Point Westferry Circus 1999 Jay Battle [14]
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More images		 Columbus Screen Columbus Courtyard 2000 Wendy Ramshaw [15]
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More images		 Hibbert Gate Adjacent to North Dock West 2000 Leo Stevenson [16]
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More images		 Returning to Embrace 10 Cabot Square 2000 Jon Buck [17]
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More images		 It Takes Two One Canada Square 2002 Bob Allen [18]
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More images		 HSBC lions 8 Canada Square 2002 after W. W. Wagstaff
120x120px Arbor Montgomery Square 2003 Nigel Ross [19]
120x120px Cross Way Montgomery Square 2003 Nigel Ross [19]
120x120px Sacrificial Anode Montgomery Square 2007 Eilis O'Connell [20]
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More images		 Sasso Cosmico Westferry Circus 2007 Do König Vassilakis [21]
120x120px Avatar Westferry Circus 2009 Robert Worley [22]
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More images		 Torsion II Bank Street, Jubilee Park exit 2009–11 Charles Hadcock [23]
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More images		 Drawing Cube (Blue) Montgomery Square 2010 Suresh Dutt [24]
120x120px Domino Players Clove Crescent 1992 Kim Bennet [25]
London River Man Ensign House, Marsh Wall
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More images		 Renaissance Nutmeg Lane, East India Dock Maurice Blik [26]
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More images		 Spirit of Enterprise South Dock, Canary Wharf

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 1987 Wendy Taylor [27]
Speaking of the River Canary Riverside

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 2000 Constance DeJong audio benches [28]
Windwand Canary Riverside

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 2000 Ron Arad carbon fibre 50 m high [28]
Chimney Westferry Circus

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 2008 Andrew Burton recycled fired bricks, steel [28]
12 Planters Columbus Courtyard

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 2001–2002 Tatiana Orloff bronze [28]

Mile End and Bow

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px Statue of Richard Green East India Dock Road 1865/6 Edward William Wyon Statue Grade II [29]
120x120px 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.[30]
120x120px Statue of Clement Attlee Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road 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.[31] 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.[32] Peter Mandelson gave the statue its second unveiling on 4 April 2011.[33]
Knowledge Library Square on the campus of Queen Mary, University of London
Renaissance junction of Saffron Avenue and Clove Crescent Maurice Blik

Poplar

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
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More images		 Children's Memorial Poplar Recreation Ground 1919 A. R. Adams Grade II Unveiled 23 June 1919.[34] 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.[35]
Shadow Play In front of Compass House, Mulberry Place 1992 Dave King [29]
120x120px Virginia Settlers Monument Jamestown Way 1999 Wendy Taylor [29]
Meridians and Metaphors Near the junction of Clove Crescent and Saffron Avenue David Jacobson

Rotherhithe

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
James Walker, Engineer - geograph.org.uk - 1876498.jpg Bust of James Walker Greenland Dock 1990 Michael Rizzello Bust N/A [36]

St Katharine's Dock

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Cannon Entrance to St Katharine Docks 18th century [37]
Anchor of Amsterdam St Katharine Docks, at entrance to East Dock 1748 (placed here 1980s) [37]
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More images		 Girl with Dolphin Beside River Thames between Tower Bridge and entrance to docks 1973 David Wynne [37]
120x120px Timepiece Entrance to St Katharine Docks 1973 Wendy Taylor [37]
Elephants Entrance to Ivory House, on gateposts 1973 Peter Drew [37]
Geese Thomas More Street 1990 David Norris [37]
To Meet Again Thomas More Street 1990 Michael Beck [37]
Angelic Musician Thomas More Street 1991 Carl Milles [37]
Exotic Birds and other sculptures Various locations around St Katharine Docks 1995–97 Paula Haughney [37]

Shadwell

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px 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.[38]
120x120px Navigators' Memorial King Edward Memorial Park 1922 ? Commemorative stone [38]

Spitalfields

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px I Goat Brushfield Street 2011 Kenny Hunter Sculpture N/A [39]
120x120px Vortex Lamb Street 1999 Barbara Sandler Sculpture N/A [40]

Wapping

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px Bluecoat Girl Raine's House ? Statue in niche
120x120px Bluecoat Boy Raine's House ? Statue in niche
120x120px Bust of John Rennie the Elder Spirit Quay 1992 John Ravera Bust N/A [38]
120x120px Blitz Memorial 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.[41]

Whitechapel

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates		 Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
120x120px Statue of Alexandra of Denmark Whitechapel Road, behind the Royal London Hospital 1908 George Edward Wade Grade II [42]
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More images		 Edward VII Memorial Drinking Fountain Mile End Road 1911 William Silver Frith Grade II [43]
Bust of William Booth Mile End Road 1927 George Edward Wade [44]
120x120px Statue of William Booth Mile End Road 1979 (casting) George Edward Wade [45]
Les Naïdes 45 Whitechapel Road 1985 Ivor Abrahams [45]
Spitalfields Column Middlesex Street 1995 Richard Perry
Ram and Magpie Allen Gardens Playground, Buxton Street 1996 Paula Haughny
120x120px Shaheed Minars Martyr monument
Altab Ali		 Altab Ali Park, on the corner of Whitechapel Road and White Church Lane 1999 Shaheed Minar [45]

References

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  18. ↑ Public and Corporate Commissions | Bob Allen – Sculptor Accessed 4 April 2010
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  25. ↑ The Sporting Statues Project: Domino Players: East India Dock, London Accessed 24 October 2014
  26. ↑ 'Renaissance' – East India Dock, London, UK. – Commissions – Maurice Bilk Accessed 24 October 2014
  27. ↑ SCULPTURE IN THE WORKPLACE
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 Art Map – Public Art at Canary Wharf, Canary Wharf Group
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Poplar's Free Art & History. Accessed 14 November 2010
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Bibliography

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