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 O • CANARY RIVERSIDE Vanishing Point was sponsored by Canary Wharf Group but This map identifies the works of art purchased, commissioned or looks a little like the shell of a mythical sea was part of a wider project commissioned creature that has perhaps been washed loaned by Canary Wharf Group, which include stand-alone pieces by Public Art Development Trust, which up from the Thames. The stone has been and integrated artist architectural works. The works are numbered linked the river Thames in London with the polished to reveal the natural, lined core. sequentially as to their location on the estate from west to east, river Hudson in New York. De Jong created a Having trained as a stone mason in Canada, and the text indicates whether they are sited inside ‘I’ with blue gentle, evocative sound-scape using recorded Battle came to England to study stone numbering, or outside ‘O’ with orange numbering. interviews and stories that relate the human carving and in 1997 became Head Carver experience of both these locations, told by at Salisbury Cathedral, contributing to Artists and key to works on map: people for whom the river is a daily presence. its constant restoration works as well as Bob Allen 1 6 Giusseppe Lund 3 Two audio benches are located 100m apart on running his own studio where he creates Ron Arad 2 Michael Lyons 51 54 the riverside promenade. contemporary, self expressive work. Jay Battle 5 Antoni Malinowski 60 Alexander Beleschenko 57 58 Bruce McLean 23 RON ARAD • Windwand HUGH CHAPMAN • Growth Form 2012 Jeff Bell 17 Keith Milow 46 2. 2000 • Carbon fibre 6. 2012 • Bronze Emma Biggs 26 38 Igor Mitoraj 9 36 69 O • CANARY RIVERSIDE Windwand is as tall O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Hugh Chapman’s Helaine Blumenfeld 41 75 Henry Moore 18 as some of the buildings that surround it, a Growth Form 2012 was cast at the nearby Jon Buck 25 Peter Newman 52 50-metre high needle made of red carbon Bronze Age foundry in Limehouse. Suffering fibre. It was designed to flex gently in the wind, a head injury as a teenager, Chapman turned Andrew Burton 7 Eilis O’Connell 67 subverting one’s expectations of what tall his back on academia to concentrate first on Lynn Chadwick 20 Tatiana Orloff 11 objects in this area should do. Ron Arad came ceramics before turning to photography. Rachael Champion 70 Ottotto 19 to London from Israel in 1973 to study at the He later returned to ceramics and sculptural Hugh Chapman 6 Lawson Oyekan 47 Architectural Association and is now regarded form but soon began experimenting in other Bill Culbert 65 Giles Penny 13 22 as one of Britain’s most inventive designers, media, creating larger and bolder works. His whose work crosses boundaries between art, work expresses what his experiences have Constance De Jong 1 Julius Popp 28 design and architecture. taught him: the importance of life and light, Yvonne Domenge 39 Wendy Ramshaw 10 contrast and reflection. ART Suresh Dutt 66 Peter Randall Page 64 Sergio Fermariello 45 Keith Rand 40 GIUSSEPPE LUND • Gate • Sculptural Railings ANDREW BURTON • Chimney Konstantin Grcic 48 Martin Richman 27 53 3. 1992 • Steel, bronze 7. 2008 • Recycled fired bricks, steel Gillie & Marc 49 Nigel Ross 68 O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Inspired by the O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Andrew Burton has Charles Hadcock Michal Rovner 56 31 35 cycle of the seasons, Lund’s Gate forms the created a number of works using miniature Nigel Hall 63 Sophie Ryder 74 entrance to the gardens at Westferry Circus, clay bricks, collaborating with artisans and Sean Henry 73 Sophie Smallhorn 42 43 a remarkable work that incorporates delicate artists in India, Korea and the Netherlands, Maureen Anne Holley 37 Leo Stevenson 13 flowers flowing from a single stem set against a investigating brick-making as a vehicle for chunky grid, complemented by his Sculptural culpture. He first visited India in 1983. Close James Horrobin & SOM 14 Sinta Tantra 29 Railings that surround the gardens. Lund has in form to chimneys of brick kilns the world MAP Richard Hudson 34 72 William Turnbull 44 had a long career working with metal, and has over, Chimney is also a tribute to India’s Yinka Ilori 30 Camille Walala 50 been influential in encouraging its creative use tallest brick minaret of the Qutub Minar Philip Jackson & SOM 21 Wales & Wales 24 in the UK, organising exhibitions and advising near Delhi. This work was first shown at bodies including the Crafts Council. Canary Wharf as part of his exhibition in Do König Vassilakis 4 Julian Wild 55 71 Jubilee Park in spring 2008. Gerald Laing 15 Terence Woodgate 60 Danny Lane 62 Robert Worley 8 DO KÖNIG VASSILAKIS • Sasso Cosmico ROBERT WORLEY • Avatar LBO Lichtbank 61 Catherine Yass 32 4. 2007 • Bronze, steel 8. 2009 • Aluminium Photographs by Aurelio Amendola, Alexander For further information contact O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Sasso Cosmico, O • WESTFERRY CIRCUS Robert Worley ARBS Beleschenko, Theresa Bergne, Rod Dorling, Public Art, Canary Wharf Group which translated from the Italian means was the winner of the First@108 Public Art Suresh Dutt, David Hoffman, Lesley Johnson, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf 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 peaceful garden at Westferry Circus. The Royal Society of Sculptors to provide an Heini Schneebeli, Andy Spain, Philip Vile, [email protected] reflective surface captures the surrounding opportunity for artists new to public art to Richard Waite, Keith Watson, Sally Williams Copyright © Canary Wharf Group, 2021 Photographs of Henry Moore Draped Seated 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 Public art at the weather systems. König Vassilakis’ work sculpture Avatar for its permanent collection. canarywharf.com is strongly influenced by the mythology and Avatar portrays a hawk-like beast with a human yourcanarywharf Canary Wharf culture of ancient Greece and Rome. form embedded in its back. canarywharflondon IGOR MITORAJ • Centurione I GILES PENNY • Man with Arms Open JEFF BELL • Cast Glass Panels PHILIP JACKSON & SOM • Bronze Bowls 9. 1987 • Bronze 13. 1995 • Bronze 17. 1992 • Cast lead crystal 21. 1992 • Bronze O • COLUMBUS COURTYARD Igor Mitoraj O • WEST INDIA AVENUE Giles Penny’s Man with O • CABOT SQUARE Jeff Bell’s Cast Glass O • CABOT SQUARE Philip Jackson CVO is (1944–2014) was born in East Germany of Arms Open is a roughly hewn bronze figure with Panels form the cladding for the four ventilation best known for his figurative bronze sculptures, Polish/French parents and studied classical his head thrown back and arms outstretched. shafts in Cabot Square that service the car park such as the equestrian statue of the Queen painting in Krakow before moving to Paris in Penny came to the attention of Canary Wharf below, turning the functional into a spectacle commissioned for her Golden Jubilee, the 1968, and later travelled in South America. Group when this work, together with another of light and colour. Born in Yorkshire, Bell memorial statue of The Queen Mother in The Mall His enigmatic and monumental sculptures of his bronzes, Two Men on a Bench, was shown established his studio in London in 1986 and has unveiled in 2009, and his group of seven figures combine the surreal with the antiquity of Greece as part of the Millennium exhibition, The Shape built up a reputation for making unique cast glass for the Bomber Command Memorial in Green and Rome. At Canary Wharf there are three of of the Century in 1999, held in Salisbury and sculpture, furniture and architectural pieces. He Park in 2012. At Canary Wharf he worked with his works, representing some of the themes that at Canary Wharf. Both sculptures were then enjoys pushing the boundaries of the application architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) occupied him. Centurione I represents the head purchased and form part of the permanent of his chosen material and has cast the most to design the unique planters for the entrance as an incomplete mask, suggesting the surviving collection of works of art on the estate. unlikely structures, including a bath tub and a steps into Cabot Square, and also found at part of an enormous whole. spiral staircase. Wren Landing. WENDY RAMSHAW • Columbus Screen JAMES HORROBIN & SOM • Cabot Square Railings HENRY MOORE • Draped Seated Woman GILES PENNY • Two Men on a Bench 10. 2000 • Steel, Perspex 14. 1992 • Steel 18. 1957-58 • Bronze • 2 in an edition of 6 22. 1995 • Bronze O • COLUMBUS COURTYARD When Canary Wharf commissioned jewellery O • CABOT SQUARE A master craftsman in O • CABOT SQUARE Henry Moore’s Draped Seated Woman was O • WREN LANDING Giles Penny’s Two Men on designer Wendy Ramshaw (1939-2018), the Columbus theme led her to architectural and domestic forged ironwork, purchased in 1962 under London County Council’s Patronage of the a Bench is a large bronze work in the classical a design based on the navigational charts used by the great explorer, an James Horrobin worked with architects Arts Scheme for the Stifford Estate in Stepney. In 1997, when the estate’s figurative tradition, which has a contemplative apposite choice given the proximity Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to design tower blocks were due for demolition, the sculpture was moved for air as well as an element of fun.