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

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Robert Milligan Museum of London Docklands
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1813 Richard Westmacott
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Testa Addormentata Corner of Bank Street and Upper Bank Street 1983 Igor Mitoraj [1]
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Couple on a Seat Cabot Square 1984 Lynn Chadwick [2]
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Centurione I Columbus Courtyard 1987 Igor Mitoraj [3]
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Leap Jamestown Harbour 1987–9 Franta Belsky [4]
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Two Men on a Bench Cabot Square 1990 Giles Penny [5]
120x120px Gate Westferry Circus 1992 Giuseppe Lund [6]
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Centauro Upper Bank Street 1994 Igor Mitoraj [7]
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Man With Arms Open West India Avenue 1995 Giles Penny [8]
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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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Traffic Light Tree roundabout on Trafalgar Way, outside Billingsgate Market (since 2013) 1998 Pierre Vivant [11]
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Original Form 25 North Colonnade 1999 Keith Rand [12]
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Six Public Clocks Reuters Plaza 1999 Konstantin Grcic [13]
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Vanishing Point Westferry Circus 1999 Jay Battle [14]
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Columbus Screen Columbus Courtyard 2000 Wendy Ramshaw [15]
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Hibbert Gate Adjacent to North Dock West 2000 Leo Stevenson [16]
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Returning to Embrace 10 Cabot Square 2000 Jon Buck [17]
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It Takes Two One Canada Square 2002 Bob Allen [18]
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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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Sasso Cosmico Westferry Circus 2007 Do König Vassilakis [21]
120x120px Avatar Westferry Circus 2009 Robert Worley [22]
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Torsion II Bank Street, Jubilee Park exit 2009–11 Charles Hadcock [23]
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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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Renaissance Nutmeg Lane, East India Dock Maurice Blik [26]
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Spirit of Enterprise South Dock, Canary Wharf

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1987 Wendy Taylor [27]
Speaking of the River Canary Riverside

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2000 Constance DeJong audio benches [28]
Windwand Canary Riverside

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2000 Ron Arad carbon fibre 50 m high [28]
Chimney Westferry Circus

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2008 Andrew Burton recycled fired bricks, steel [28]
12 Planters Columbus Courtyard

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2001–2002 Tatiana Orloff bronze [28]

Mile End and Bow

Image Title / subject Location and
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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

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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

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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

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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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  26. 'Renaissance' – East India Dock, London, UK. – Commissions – Maurice Bilk Accessed 24 October 2014
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