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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

More images 		Robert Milligan Museum of London Docklands
Hertsmere Road 		1813 Richard Westmacott

More images 		Testa Addormentata Corner of Bank Street and Upper Bank Street 1983 Igor Mitoraj [1]

More images 		Couple on a Seat Cabot Square 1984 Lynn Chadwick [2]

More images 		Centurione I Columbus Courtyard 1987 Igor Mitoraj [3]

More images 		Leap Jamestown Harbour 1987–9 Franta Belsky [4]

More images 		Two Men on a Bench Cabot Square 1990 Giles Penny [5]
Gate Westferry Circus 1992 Giuseppe Lund [6]

More images 		Centauro Upper Bank Street 1994 Igor Mitoraj [7]

More images 		Man With Arms Open West India Avenue 1995 Giles Penny [8]

More images 		Figurehead for Docklands Poplar Dock 1997 Anna Bisset [9]
Portrait relief of Michael von Clemm Cabot Square 1998 Gerald Laing [10]

More images 		Traffic Light Tree roundabout on Trafalgar Way, outside Billingsgate Market (since 2013) 1998 Pierre Vivant [11]

More images 		Original Form 25 North Colonnade 1999 Keith Rand [12]

More images 		Six Public Clocks Reuters Plaza 1999 Konstantin Grcic [13]

More images 		Vanishing Point Westferry Circus 1999 Jay Battle [14]

More images 		Columbus Screen Columbus Courtyard 2000 Wendy Ramshaw [15]

More images 		Hibbert Gate Adjacent to North Dock West 2000 Leo Stevenson [16]

More images 		Returning to Embrace 10 Cabot Square 2000 Jon Buck [17]

More images 		It Takes Two One Canada Square 2002 Bob Allen [18]

More images 		HSBC lions 8 Canada Square 2002 after W. W. Wagstaff
Arbor Montgomery Square 2003 Nigel Ross [19]
Cross Way Montgomery Square 2003 Nigel Ross [19]
Sacrificial Anode Montgomery Square 2007 Eilis O'Connell [20]

More images 		Sasso Cosmico Westferry Circus 2007 Do König Vassilakis [21]
Avatar Westferry Circus 2009 Robert Worley [22]

More images 		Torsion II Bank Street, Jubilee Park exit 2009–11 Charles Hadcock [23]

More images 		Drawing Cube (Blue) Montgomery Square 2010 Suresh Dutt [24]
Domino Players Clove Crescent 1992 Kim Bennet [25]
London River Man Ensign House, Marsh Wall

More images 		Renaissance Nutmeg Lane, East India Dock Maurice Blik [26]

More images 		Spirit of Enterprise South Dock, Canary Wharf

51°30′9.83″N 0°1′29.04″W / 51.5027306°N 0.0247333°W / 51.5027306; -0.0247333 		1987 Wendy Taylor [27]
Speaking of the River Canary Riverside

51°30′22.48″N 0°1′43.72″W / 51.5062444°N 0.0288111°W / 51.5062444; -0.0288111 		2000 Constance DeJong audio benches [28]
Windwand Canary Riverside

51°30′20.87″N 0°1′41.43″W / 51.5057972°N 0.0281750°W / 51.5057972; -0.0281750 		2000 Ron Arad carbon fibre 50 m high [28]
Chimney Westferry Circus

51°30′19.74″N 0°1′34.55″W / 51.5054833°N 0.0262639°W / 51.5054833; -0.0262639 		2008 Andrew Burton recycled fired bricks, steel [28]
12 Planters Columbus Courtyard

51°30′22.53″N 0°1′30.69″W / 51.5062583°N 0.0251917°W / 51.5062583; -0.0251917 		2001–2002 Tatiana Orloff bronze [28]


Mile End and Bow

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Statue of Richard Green East India Dock Road 1865/6 Edward William Wyon Statue Grade II [29]
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]
Statue of Clement Attlee Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road 1988 Frank Forster Statue — 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

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]
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
Bust of James Walker Greenland Dock 1990 Michael Rizzello Bust — [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]

More images 		Girl with Dolphin Beside River Thames between Tower Bridge and entrance to docks 1973 David Wynne [37]
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
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]
Navigators' Memorial King Edward Memorial Park 1922 ? Commemorative stone [38]


Spitalfields

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


Wapping

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
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 — [38]
Blitz Memorial Hermitage Riverside Memorial Garden 2008 Wendy Taylor Sculpture — 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
Statue of Alexandra of Denmark Whitechapel Road, behind the Royal London Hospital 1908 George Edward Wade Grade II [42]

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]
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
Shaheed Minars Martyr monument
Altab Ali 		Altab Ali Park, on the corner of Whitechapel Road and White Church Lane 1999 Shaheed Minar [45]


References

  1. ^ Igor Mitoraj: Testa Addormentata, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  2. ^ Lynn Chadwick: Couple on a Seat, retrieved 5 April 2015
  3. ^ Igor Mitoraj: Centurione I, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  4. ^ 'Leap', Jamestown Harbour, Isle of Dogs, London, Henry Moore Institute, retrieved 5 April 2015
  5. ^ Giles Penny: Two Men on a Bench, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  6. ^ Giusseppe [sic] Lund: Gate‍—‌sculptural railings, Canary Wharf, retrieved 18 April 2015 {{citation}}: zero width joiner character in |title= at position 27 (help)
  7. ^ Igor Mitoraj: Centauro I, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  8. ^ Giles Penny: Man with Arms Open, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  9. ^ "Canary Wharf & East India Docks". Exploring East London. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  10. ^ Gerald Laing: Relief portrait of Michael von Clemm, Canary Wharf, retrieved 17 April 2015
  11. ^ "The Traffic Light Tree, Pierre Vivant 1998", CityNoise, retrieved 31 March 2010
  12. ^ Keith Rand: Original Form, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  13. ^ Konstantin Grcic: Six Public Clocks, Canary Wharf, retrieved 18 April 2015
  14. ^ Jay Battle: Vanishing Point, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  15. ^ Wendy Ramshaw: Columbus Screen, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  16. ^ Leo Stevenson:The Hibbert Gate, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  17. ^ Jon Buck: Returning to Embrace, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  18. ^ Public and Corporate Commissions | Bob Allen – Sculptor Accessed 4 April 2010
  19. ^ a b Nigel Ross: Cross Way / Arbor, Canary Wharf, retrieved 17 June 2015
  20. ^ Eilis O'Connell: Sacrificial Anode, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  21. ^ Do König Vassilakis: Sasso Cosmico, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  22. ^ Robert Worley: Avatar, Canary Wharf, retrieved 17 June 2015
  23. ^ Charles Hadcock: Torsion II, Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  24. ^ Drawing Cube (Blue), Canary Wharf, retrieved 5 April 2015
  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. ^ a b c d Art Map – Public Art at Canary Wharf, Canary Wharf Group
  29. ^ a b c Poplar's Free Art & History. Accessed 14 November 2010
  30. ^ "Edward VII", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, retrieved 11 January 2016
  31. ^ "Clement Attlee", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, retrieved 1 June 2015
  32. ^ Matthews 2012, pp. 231–2
  33. ^ Lord Mandelson joins Lord Hennessy to unveil Clement Attlee statue, Queen Mary, University of London, 5 April 2011, retrieved 1 June 2015
  34. ^ "Bombed School Memorial", National Recording Project, Public Monuments & Sculpture Association, retrieved 16 June 2015
  35. ^ Matthews 2012, pp. 227–8
  36. ^ Matthews 2012, p. 195
  37. ^ a b c d e f g h i "St Katharine's Dock". Exploring East London. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  38. ^ a b c Matthews 2012, p. 227
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  41. ^ "Peace dove gardens unveiled for London's Blitz dead", The Docklands & East London Advertiser, 18 July 2008, retrieved 17 June 2015
  42. ^ Historic England. "Statue in rear courtyard of the London Hospital (1065789)". National Heritage List for England.
  43. ^ Historic England. "King Edward VII Jewish Memorial Drinking Fountain opposite to main entrance of London Hospital (1065821)". National Heritage List for England.
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Bibliography

  • Matthews, Peter (2012), London’s Statues and Monuments, Botley: Shire Publications {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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