List of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth
Battersea
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
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In Town | Battersea Bridge Road | 1983 | John Ravera | N/A | Sculptural group | N/A | [1] | |
Two Swans | Battersea Bridge Road | 1984 | Catherine Marr-Johnson | N/A | Sculptures | N/A | [2] | |
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Memorial to the Clapham Junction rail crash | Spencer Park | 1989 | Richard Healy | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | [3] |
Sterling | Great Eastern Wharf | 1990 | Neil Lawson-Baker | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | [4] | |
Water Sculpture | Chelsea Bridge Wharf | 2003 | Caroline Lambard | N/A | Sculpture | N/A | [5] | |
Garden Tools and Sink | St John's Hill Estate, Clapham Junction | 2015–2016 | Rodney Harris | Hawkins Brown | Reliefs | N/A | [6] | |
Pinafores and Uniform | St John's Hill Estate, Clapham Junction | 2015–2016 | Valda Jackson | Hawkins Brown | Reliefs | N/A | [6] |
Battersea Park
Battersea Park has a history of displaying sculpture by major artists, with large triennial exhibitions in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, although the 1954 and 1957 exhibitions took place in Holland Park instead of Battersea Park.[7] More recently the park presents an annual student sculpture prize with the winning sculpture going on show in for a year.[8] Some of the current sculptures have remained in the park since the large exhibitions.
1948 Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture
This was the first event of its type in Britain and showed 43 sculptures between May and September.[9] The exhibition was extremely successful with over 170,000 visitors.[7]
Selected sculptors and works:
- Auguste Rodin – The Age of Bronze/Man Awakening to Nature
- Ossip Zadkine – Laokoon
- Charles Despiau – Eve
- Henri Matisse – a bas-relief
- Barbara Hepworth – Helikon
- Henri Laurens – Les Ondines
- Eric Gill – Mankind
- Henry Moore – Recumbent Figure 1938, Three Standing Figures 1947
- Jacques Lipchitz – Figure
- Aristide Maillol – The Three Graces, Venus with necklace
- Jacob Epstein – Girl with Gardenias, The Visitation
1951 exhibition 'Sculpture'
44 sculptures including ones by Mari Andriessen, Bill?, Butler?, Siegfried Charoux, Charles Despiau, Dobson, Jacob Epstein, Alberto Giacometti, Eric Gill, Henning?, Barbara Hepworth, Maurice Lambert, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Giacomo Manzù, Constantin Meunier, Henry Moore, Antoine Pevsner?, Auguste Rodin and Karel Vogel?.
1960 exhibition 'Sculpture in the open air'
42 sculptures were shown[10] from British and French contemporary sculptors.[7]
List of sculptors: Adams?, Kenneth Armitage, Jean Arp, Mark Batten, André Bloc, Brown?, Butler, Anthony Caro, Clatworthy, Lynn Chadwick, Siegfried Charoux, Richard Bentley Claughton, Marta Colvin, Hubert Dalwood, Dow?, Alan Durst, Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink, Alfred Gerrard, Dora Gordine, Barbara Hepworth, Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, Phillip King? or Peter King?, Eric Kennington, Gilbert Ledward, F. E. McWilliam, Martin?, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Uli Nimptsch, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pablo Picasso, Germaine Richier, John Skeaping, François Stahly, William Turnbull, Josefina de Vasconcellos, Vogel, Charles Wheeler, Ossip Zadkine.
1963 London County Council exhibition 'Sculpture in the open air'
42 sculptures were shown, mainly from British and American contemporary artists.[11]
List of sculptors: Adams, Peter Agostini, Kenneth Armitage, Leonard Baskin, Harry Bertoia, Brown, Butler, Anthony Caro, Alexander Calder, Lynn Chadwick, John Chamberlain, Geoffrey Clarke, Robert Clatworthy, Hubert Dalwood, George Ehrlich, Herbert Ferber, Elisabeth Frink, George Fullard, Joseph Goto, Dimitri Hadzi, Raoul Hague?, Anthony Hatwell, Barbara Hepworth, John Hoskin, Bryan Kneale, Seymour Lipton, F. E. McWilliam, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Reuben Nakian, Uli Nimptsch, Phillip Pavia, Richmond?, George Rickey, Jose de Rivera, James Rosati, Schmidt?, Jason Seley, David Smith, Richard Stankiewicz, Peter Voulkos, William Turnbull.
1966 Greater London Council exhibition 'Sculpture in the open air'
42 sculptures were shown between May and September[12]
List of sculptors: Adams, David Annesley, Kenneth Armitage, Michael Bolus, Brown, Antanas Braždys, Anthony Caro, Hubert Dalwood, Elisabeth Frink, George Fullard, David Hall, Barbara Hepworth, John Hoskin, Michael Kenny, King, Bryan Kneale, Kim Lim, F. E. McWilliam, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Francis Morland, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pickett?, Scott?, Smith, William G. Tucker, Brian Wall
Battersea sculpture prize
Partial table of winners
Year | Sculptor | Title | Details |
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2014 | Michael Pecirno | The Air Above | [13] |
2013 | Anna Fleming | Magpie Feather | [14] |
2012 | Luke Burton | This & That & These & Those | [15] |
2011 (13th) | Lucy Tomlins | Concrete Country | [16][17] |
2010 | Dexter Dymoke | Bench | [18] |
2008 | Gareth Williams | Ip Dip Dip | [19] |
2007 | Maxine Schaffer | Buckhorn Plantain | [19] |
2003 | Andrew Broadbent | F-1 | [19] |
2002 (7th) | John Summers | Reborn | [19] |
2001 | Wilhelmina Baldwin | Nor'Stand | [19] |
2000 | Kieran Doyle | Dual Nature | [19] |
1999 | Steve Bunn | Rollercoaster | [19][20] |
1998 | Si Sapsford | [21] | |
1997 | Thomas Ostenberg | [22] |
Current
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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24th East Surrey Division War Memorial | Battersea Park | 1924 | Eric Kennington | Sculptural group | Grade II* | [23] |
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Three Standing Figures | Battersea Park | 1948 | Henry Moore | Sculptural group | Grade II | [24] |
Single Form (Memorial) | Battersea Park | 1961–2 | Barbara Hepworth | Sculpture | N/A | [25] | |
Brown Dog Memorial | Battersea Park | 1985 | Nicola Hicks | Sculpture | N/A | [26] | |
Sheep-seat | Battersea Park | 2000 | Mark Folds | Wooden carved bench | N/A | [27] | |
F-1 | Battersea Park | 2003 | Andrew Broadbent | Sculpture | N/A | [28] | |
Australian WW2 Air Crew Memorial | Battersea Park | erected 16/5/1995 | War Memorial | N/A | [29][30] | ||
Anzac Gallipoli War Memorial | Battersea Park | Opened 25 April 1998, Unveiled 25 April 2000 | War Memorial | N/A | [29][31] |
Nine Elms
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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ROD | Embassy Gardens | 2010–14 | Mohamed Qasim Ashfaq | Sculpture | N/A | [32][33] | |
Florian | Embassy Gardens | 2013 | Sarah Lucas | Sculpture | N/A | A giant marrow cast in bronze, alluding to the vegetables sold at the nearby New Covent Garden Market.[32] | |
Modern Marriage | Embassy Gardens | 2014 | Simon Fujiwara | Sculpture | N/A | [32] |
Putney
Image | Title / individual commemorated | Location | Date | Sculptor | Source |
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Load | Riverside, outside restaurant on junction of Lower Richmond Road and The Embankment | 1989 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Exodus | In centre of Leaders Gardens at the end of The Embankment/Festing Road | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Horizontal Ambiguity | Embankment/Dukes Head, Thames Place | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
The Turning Point | Junction of Putney Bridge Road and Putney High Street | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Punch and Judy | Putney Wharf riverside near slipway/end of Brewhouse Street | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Motherfigure | Putney Wharf riverside, from Deodar Road footpath entrance | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Nexus | Wandsworth Park, on southernmost path (running parallel with Putney Bridge Road) | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Pygmalion | Wandsworth Park riverside, near entrance from Prospect Quay and Riverside Quarter | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Fall | Prospect Quay/Riverside Quarter | 2008 | Alan Thornhill | ||
Boat Race starting stone | The Embankment, Putney | 19th century |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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War memorial | St Mary's Church, Putney 51°27′57.37″N 0°12′49.33″W |
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Armillary Sphere | 51°27′45.24″N 0°11′57.46″W |
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Hartley Memorial Obelisk | Putney Heath, near the A3 51°26′51.72″N 0°13′30.72″W |
1776 | Attributed to George Dance | Red brick, stone, concrete slab | Grade II listed | Erected on centenary of the Great Fire of London 'in memory of an invention for securing buildings against fire'[34] |
Roehampton
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Material | Designation | Notes |
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Pavilion for drinking fountain and horse trough | junction of Roehampton Lane (A306) and Medfield Street. Roehampton — Barnes 51°26′56.64″N 0°14′23.92″W |
1882 | Henry Dasson | J. C. Radford | Grade II | |||
Roehampton War Memorial | Putney Heath 51.4504°N 0.2358°W |
1952 | Memorial cross | Grade II | Replaces an earlier memorial largely destroyed by bombing in World War II.[35] | ||||
The Watchers | Alton Estate 51.4529°N 0.2453°W |
1960 | Lynn Chadwick | N/A | Sculptural group | Grade II | |||
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The Bull | Alton Estate 51.4521°N 0.2479°W |
1961 | Robert Clatworthy | N/A | Sculpture | Grade II* | ||
Dickie and Sam | outside Queen Mary's Hospital | 2009 | Brian Alabaster MRBS | Sculpture | Bronze | ||||
in memory of Hugh Colin Smith | Mount Clare | Statue |
Streatham
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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War Memorial | Streatham Cemetery 51°26′0.31″N 0°10′30.95″W |
Tooting
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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St Benedict's Clock Tower | 51°25′31.14″N 0°9′26.86″W |
1888 | Clock tower | The subject of a recent pound for pound scheme, with restoration works including timber repairs and renewal of lead cupola being half met by a conservation grant from Wandsworth Borough Council. The tower originally adorned St Joseph's Roman Catholic college, built in 1888. In 1897 this became the Tooting Home workhouse, and then in 1930 St Benedict's Hospital, which closed in 1981 https://web.archive.org/web/20100304024621/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Wandsworth%2FWandsworth.shtml | |||
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Statue of Edward VII | outside Tooting Broadway tube station, junction A24 and A217 51°25′39.97″N 0°10′4.71″W |
1911 | Louis Fritz Roselieb | Statue | Grade II | Inscription on the base reads ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, 1911. Reliefs on either side show personifications of Peace and Charity.[36] It was the first statue of the King to be erected, after his death.[37] |
Bench | outside Tesco Express, Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EN 51°25′57.42″N 0°9′49.89″W |
Bench | N/A |
Wandsworth
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Huguenot memorial | Mount Nod, Wandsworth 51°27′30.1″N 0°10′59.5″W |
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George and Dragon | Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, Wandsworth 51°27′12.73″N 0°10′29.65″W |
1857-9 | Architectural sculpture | [38] | ||||||
Advertising hoarding | Wandsworth roundabout 51°27′44.69″N 0°11′7.65″W |
JCDecaux | similar to another on Old Street Roundabout,[39] | |||||||
Sail | The Spit, close to mouth of the River Wandle 51°27′42.07″N 0°11′41.06″W |
2003 | Sophie Horton | sculpture | Etched stainless steel with powder coating | 460 x 250 x 250cm | [40] | |||
Tide powered bell | Bell Lane Creek, The Causeway, Wandsworth 51°27′35.4″N 0°11′36.5″W |
November 1993 | Whitechapel Bell Foundry | Installation | Wandsworth Borough Council | Installed by the Platform arts and environment group[41] |
Wimbledon Common
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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War Memorial | Wimbledon Common 51°26′7.18″N 0°14′48.98″W |
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War Memorial | Putney Vale Cemetery 51°26′20.05″N 0°14′45.01″W |
Tucked away along the side wall, close to the Stag Lane entrance, next to a branch of ASDA is this forgotten memorial. It appears to have just women's names on it |
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- Former Royal Victoria Patriotic School, Wandsworth
- The Wandsworth Roundabout – Circles in the sky
- Sail on Sophie Horton's website
- Platform Projects – Delta – Wandle-powered St Joseph's school, 1993 - The revival of London's river Wandle delta through the permanent installation of a micro-hydro turbine and a church bell rung by the tides
External links
- Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Wandsworth at Wikimedia Commons