CONSTANCE DE JONG • Speaking of the River JAY BATTLE • Vanishing Point PUBLIC ART AT 1 . 2000 • Audio benches 5. 1999 • Derbyshire stone, steel CANARY WHARF O • CANARY RIVERSIDE Speaking of the River was O • CANARY RIVERSIDE Vanishing Point sponsored by Canary Wharf Group but was part looks a little like the shell of a mythical sea This map identifies the works of art purchased, commissioned or of a wider project commissioned by Public Art creature that has perhaps been washed loaned by Canary Wharf Group, which include stand-alone pieces Development Trust, which linked the river Thames up from the Thames. The stone has been and integrated artist architectural works. The works are numbered in London with the river Hudson in New York. De polished to reveal the natural, lined core. sequentially as to their location on the estate from west to east, Jong created a gentle, evocative sound-scape Having trained as a stone mason in Canada, and the text indicates whether they are sited inside ‘I’ with blue using recorded interviews and stories that relate Battle came to England to study stone numbering, or outside ‘O’ with orange numbering. the human experience of both these locations, told carving and in 1997 became Head Carver by people for whom the river is a daily presence. at Salisbury Cathedral, contributing to Two audio benches are located 100m apart on the its constant restoration works as well as Artists and key to works on map: riverside promenade. running his own studio where he creates Bob Allen 1 7 Giusseppe Lund 3 contemporary, self expressive work. Ron Arad 2 Michael Lyons 52 55 Jay Battle 5 Antoni Malinowski 60 RON ARAD • Windwand HUGH CHAPMAN • Growth Form 2012 Oliver Barratt 1 0 Bruce McLean 24 2. 2000 • Carbon fibre 6. 2012 • Bronze Keith Milow Alexander Beleschenko 58 59 47 O • CANARY RIVERSIDE Windwand is as tall O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Hugh Chapman’s Jeff Bell 18 Igor Mitoraj 9 37 70 as some of the buildings that surround it, a Growth Form 2012 was cast at the nearby Emma Biggs 28 34 39 Henry Moore 19 50-metre high needle made of red carbon Bronze Age foundry in Limehouse. Suffering Helaine Blumenfeld 42 74 Peter Newman 53 fibre. It was designed to flex gently in the wind, a head injury as a teenager, Chapman turned subverting one’s expectations of what tall his back on academia to concentrate first on Jon Buck 26 Eilis O’Connell 68 objects in this area should do. Ron Arad came ceramics before turning to photography. Andrew Burton 7 Tatiana Orloff 12 to London from Israel in 1973 to study at the He later returned to ceramics and sculptural 20 Lynn Chadwick 21 Ottotto Architectural Association and is now regarded form but soon began experimenting in other Hugh Chapman 6 Lawson Oyekan 48 as one of Britain’s most inventive designers, media, creating larger and bolder works. His Bill Culbert 66 Giles Penny 14 23 whose work crosses boundaries between art, work expresses what his experiences have Constance De Jong 1 Julius Popp 30 design and architecture. taught him: the importance of life and light, contrast and reflection. ART Yvonne Domenge 40 Wendy Ramshaw 11 Suresh Dutt 67 Peter Randall Page 65 Sergio Fermariello 46 Keith Rand 41 GIUSSEPPE LUND • Gate • Sculptural Railings ANDREW BURTON • Chimney 1992 • Steel, bronze 2008 • Recycled fired bricks, steel Konstantin Grcic 49 Martin Richman 29 54 3. 7. Gillie & Marc 50 Nigel Ross 69 O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Inspired by the cycle of the seasons, Lund’s Gate O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Andrew Burton has Charles Hadcock 32 36 Michal Rovner 57 forms the entrance to the gardens at Westferry Circus, a remarkable work created a number of works using miniature Nigel Hall 64 Sophie Smallhorn 43 44 that incorporates delicate flowers flowing from a single stem set against clay bricks, collaborating with artisans and artists in India, Korea and the Netherlands, Sean Henry 73 Leo Stevenson 13 a chunky grid, complemented by his Sculptural Railings that surround the investigating brick-making as a vehicle for Maureen Anne Holley 38 Sinta Tantra 31 gardens. Lund has had a long career culpture. He first visited India in 1983. Close MAP James Horrobin & SOM 15 27 William Turnbull 45 working with metal, and has been influential in form to chimneys of brick kilns the world Richard Hudson 35 72 Camille Walala 51 in encouraging its creative use in the UK, over, Chimney is also a tribute to India’s Philip Jackson & SOM 22 Wales & Wales 25 organising exhibitions and advising bodies tallest brick minaret of the Qutub Minar Do König Vassilakis 4 Julian Wild 56 71 including the Crafts Council. near Delhi. This work was first shown at Canary Wharf as part of his exhibition in Gerald Laing 16 Terence Woodgate 61 Jubilee Park in spring 2008. Danny Lane 63 Robert Worley 8 LBO Lichtbank 62 Catherine Yass 33 DO KÖNIG VASSILAKIS • Sasso Cosmico ROBERT WORLEY • Avatar 4. 2007 • Bronze, steel 8. 2009 • Aluminium Photographs by Aurelio Amendola, Alexander For further information contact O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Robert Worley ARBS Beleschenko, Theresa Bergne, Rod Dorling, Public Art, Canary Wharf Group O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Sasso Cosmico, Suresh Dutt, David Hoffman, Lesley Johnson, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf which translated from the Italian means was the winner of the First@108 Public Art Melissa Kojan, Joe Low, Iain McLean, Peter London E14 5AB ‘Cosmic Stone’, has been installed in the Award in 2009, a new annual award by the Matthews & Folio Photography, Nunzio Prenna, Telephone 020 7418 2000 Royal Society of Sculptors to provide an Heini Schneebeli, Andy Spain, Philip Vile, [email protected] peaceful garden at Westferry Circus. The Richard Waite, Keith Watson, Sally Williams reflective surface captures the surrounding opportunity for artists new to public art to Photographs of Henry Moore Draped Seated Copyright © Canary Wharf Group, 2020 planting, foliage, architecture, sky and create a large-scale sculpture commission. Woman © Henry Moore Foundation clouds. In this way it provides a constantly The Award was sponsored by Canary Wharf changing manifestation of the seasons and Group, who subsequently purchased Worley’s canarywharf.com Public art at the weather systems. König Vassilakis’ work sculpture Avatar for its permanent collection. yourcanarywharf is strongly influenced by the mythology and Avatar portrays a hawk-like beast with a human Canary Wharf canarywharflondon culture of ancient Greece and Rome. form embedded in its back. IGOR MITORAJ • Centurione I LEO STEVENSON • The Hibbert Gate BOB ALLEN • It Takes Two LYNN CHADWICK • Couple on Seat 9. 1987 • Bronze 13. 2000 • Bronze, stone 17. 2002 • Bronze 21. 1984 • Bronze O • COLUMBUS COURTYARD Igor Mitoraj O • ADJACENT TO NORTH DOCK, WEST This O • CABOT SQUARE Following a serious O • CABOT SQUARE Courtesy of the Lypiatt (1944–2014) was born in East Germany of replica of the main gate was commissioned operation, Bob Allen was advised to take up Studios and Pangolin Editions. Lynn Polish/French parents and studied classical to commemorate the original entrance to the carving to strengthen his left arm. Discovering Chadwick (1914–2003) began his career as an painting in Krakow before moving to Paris in West India Docks, built in 1803. The ship on top he had talent, Allen began creating sculpture, architectural draughtsman but after World War 1968, and later travelled in South America. of the arch is a West Indiaman named Hibbert, taking his inspiration from nature, often carving II he took up sculpture. Couple on Seat is one His enigmatic and monumental sculptures which went to sea between 1785 and 1813 and wood using traditional tools and working in the of his later works. He produced many pieces combine the surreal with the antiquity of Greece travelled extensively to the West Indies, bringing open air. It Takes Two is a bronze cast of a with figures in various positions, following in and Rome. At Canary Wharf there are three of back sugar, rum, cotton, coffee and tropical carving from the fallen bough of an ancient the tradition of sculptor Henry Moore. Chadwick his works, representing some of the themes that hardwoods. All drawings of the ship are now English Yew listed in the Domesday Book. Allen’s created a permanent exhibition of his work at occupied him. Centurione I represents the head lost but this model by Leo Stevenson was made aim is to reveal the hidden quality he sees in the his home at Lypiatt Park in Gloucestershire. An as an incomplete mask, suggesting the surviving based on extensive research into records of wood. Allen first carved the female form before exhibition of his work was held in Canary Wharf part of an enormous whole. West Indiamen of the period. adding the male. in 2004. OLIVER BARRATT • Opening Lines • 2010 GILES PENNY • Man with Arms Open JEFF BELL • Cast Glass Panels PHILIP JACKSON & SOM • Bronze Bowls 10. Turning Point • 2014 • Fibreglass, resin, stainless steel 14. 1995 • Bronze 18. 1992 • Cast lead crystal 22. 1992 • Bronze O • COLUMBUS COURTYARD O • WEST INDIA AVENUE Giles Penny’s Man with O • CABOT SQUARE Jeff Bell’s Cast Glass O • CABOT SQUARE Philip Jackson CVO is Oliver Barratt studied at Falmouth Arms Open is a roughly hewn bronze figure with Panels form the cladding for the four ventilation best known for his figurative bronze sculptures, School of Art and was Henry Moore his head thrown back and arms outstretched. shafts in Cabot Square that service the car park such as the equestrian statue of the Queen Fellow in 1990-92. He has shown Penny came to the attention of Canary Wharf below, turning the functional into a spectacle commissioned for her Golden Jubilee, the regularly in the UK and around the Group when this work, together with another of light and colour.