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CONSTANCE DE JONG • Speaking of the River JAY BATTLE • Vanishing Point PUBLIC ART AT 1. 2000 • Audio benches 5. 1999 • Derbyshire stone, steel O • CANARY RIVERSIDE Speaking of the River O • CANARY RIVERSIDE Vanishing Point was sponsored by 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 in 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 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 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 • Hugh Chapman’s Helaine Blumenfeld 41 75 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 . 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 , 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 , 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 . 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 • Jeff Bell’s Cast Glass O • CABOT SQUARE Philip Jackson CVO is (1944–2014) was born in East 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 in Krakow before moving to 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 . 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. Simplified of and its associations two sets of railings for Canary Wharf. safekeeping to Yorkshire Sculpture Park. In surfaces and contours imbue it with a with maritime history. Best known for The perimeter Cabot Square Railings are 2015 the new pledged monumental presence and narrative sculptural her jewellery, intricate brooches and reminiscent of the cogs on a steam engine, to bring the sculpture back to the borough and language. Penny came to the attention of rings, which can be seen at the V&A and make a subtle addition to the ambiance Cabot Square was chosen as its temporary Canary Wharf when this and another of his Museum and other collections, she of this popular square. Horrobin has created home. The reinstatement of this important bronzes, Man with Arms Open, were shown as also tackled large-scale architectural a wide diversity of architectural, ecclesiastic, piece of the borough’s artistic heritage has part of the Millennium exhibition The Shape of works, such as the Edinburgh Gate at domestic and sculptural works from his been funded by Canary Wharf Group on the Century in 1999. Both works were Hyde Park, 2010. Doverhay Forge Studios in Somerset. behalf of London Borough of Tower Hamlets. purchased by Canary Wharf Group.

TATIANA ORLOFF • Planters GERALD LAING • Relief Portrait of OTTOTTO • The Clew BRUCE MCLEAN • Sculptural Railings 11. 2001–02 • Bronze 15. 1998 • Bronze 19. 2020 • LED lighting, steel 23. 1992 • Steel

O • COLUMBUS COURTYARD Tatiana O • CABOT SQUARE A bronze relief O • CUBITT STEPS Commissioned O • FISHERMAN’S WALK, WREN LANDING Bruce Orloff is perhaps best known for her portrait by Gerald Laing (1936–2011) set on for the Canary Wharf Winter McLean’s intervention at Canary Wharf is the portrait sculpture. During her career a Portland stone plinth commemorates Lights festival 2020. The Clew sculptural railing alongside Fisherman’s Walk. she has worked in a variety of materials Michael von Clemm (1935–1997), ‘investment is made from 100 circles of red The 40-metre long charcoal steel rail is heavily and techniques, which include welding banker and pioneer of the Euromarkets whose light, is a beautiful structure worked with shapes, faces, circles and squares, in mild steel. The mastering of each vision helped to create this ’. created by Ottotto, a portuguese true to his style. McLean challenges the traditional new discipline has had an influence on Laing first came to fame as one of the significant architectural firm. This minimal structure of the railing, subverting the straight her work as a whole. These 12 planters British Pop artists in the 1960s, known for and elegant construction creates line with wit and vigour. McLean has worked on reflect her skill in ceramics transposed that commented on the contemporary scene. stunning reflections of sunset on numerous architectural schemes in collaboration here into sculpture in bronze. They are He later focused on sculpture, first abstract then the water and frames the bridge, with architect Will Alsop, including the Queen unique, designed specifically for Canary Wharf, and were originally located figurative subjects, and undertook a number of making you see this familiar Mary College School of Medicine & Dentistry either side of a short flight of steps in Canada Square Park. high profile commissions. landmark in a brand new way. in .

LEO STEVENSON • The Hibbert Gate BOB ALLEN • It Takes Two LYNN CHADWICK • Couple on Seat WALES & WALES • Benches 12. 2000 • Bronze, stone 16. 2002 • Bronze 20. 1984 • Bronze 24. 1992 • Beech

O • ADJACENT TO NORTH DOCK, WEST This O • CABOT SQUARE Following a serious O • CABOT SQUARE Courtesy of the Lypiatt O • WREN LANDING AND THROUGHOUT ESTATE replica of the main gate was commissioned operation, Bob Allen was advised to take up Studios and Pangolin Editions. Lynn Husband and wife design team Wales & Wales to commemorate the original entrance to the carving to strengthen his left arm. Discovering Chadwick (1914–2003) began his career as an have created many of the wooden benches , built in 1803. The ship on top he had talent, Allen began creating sculpture, architectural draughtsman but after World War that are found in Canary Wharf’s exterior 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 and interior spaces. Their work is influenced 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 by architecture, characterised here by the 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 subtle sensitivity with which the benches back sugar, rum, cotton, coffee and tropical carving from the fallen bough of an ancient the tradition of sculptor Henry Moore. relate to their surroundings. Originally trained hardwoods. All drawings of the ship are now English Yew listed in the Domesday Book. Allen’s Chadwick created a permanent exhibition as cabinet makers, they soon became more lost but this model by Leo Stevenson was made aim is to reveal the hidden quality he sees in the of his work at his home at Lypiatt Park in interested in the design process and the scale based on extensive research into records of wood. Allen first carved the female form before Gloucestershire. An exhibition of his work was of their production increased. West Indiamen of the period. adding the male. held in Canary Wharf in 2004. JON BUCK • Returning to Embrace SINTA TANTRA • A Beautiful Sunset Mistaken for a Dawn EMMA BIGGS • Sartor Resartus MAUREEN ANNE HOLLEY • The Spirit of 25. 1999 • Bronze 29. 2012 • Paint 33. 2003 • Stone and glass mosaic 37. 2007 • Photographic lightbox

O • 10 CABOT SQUARE FORECOURT O • DLR BRIDGE OVER MIDDLE DOCK I • HERON WALK TO JUBILEE PLACE, LOWER I • WEST WINTERGARDEN, GROUND Jon Buck’s sculpture appears to show a Sinta Tantra’s inspiration was drawn LEVEL Emma Biggs’ Mosaic Workshop is one LEVEL Maureen Anne Holley has always been couple locked together, gazing into each from the natural elements, ever- of Britain’s leading studio workshops, creating fascinated by London: its architecture, urban other’s eyes. Closer examination reveals changing light and towering buildings walls, floors and small-scale artworks using landscape and people. The Spirit of East a strange fusion of forms, their bodies so of Canary Wharf. Sunset and sunrise the ancient method of mosaic. Sartor Resartus London was purchased by Canary Wharf far intertwined as to have become a single influenced her palette: blues and depicts a playful collage of the different forms Group from her 2007 degree exhibition at the organism. Central to Buck’s work is an interest greys working well during the day; of dress of the office workers of Canary Wharf. University of East London, a photographic in our connection to the natural world and purples and pinks at night. LDI’s lighting Between the two wall panels, a floor roundel montage set within a composite lightbox his figures depict not only men and women scheme brings the bridge to life at shows an amusing collage of footwear, from that captures the spirit and atmosphere of but also Man and Nature. He has long been dusk. LED projectors wash soft light office brogues to dance slippers. Additional docklands, the vibrancy of regeneration as well as her East End childhood, fascinated by art outside the Western from each end, changing from early to mosaics by Biggs are found in Cabot Place where her father worked in the . tradition, particularly African sculpture. late evening. and Jubilee mall.

EMMA BIGGS • Pattern for Democracy YINKA ILORI • Be The Best You Can Be RICHARD HUDSON • Tear EMMA BIGGS • Wharf Walk 26. 2008 • Mosaic 30. 2021 • Traction², Paint 34. 2018 • Polished mirrored steel, Edition 1/3 38. 2003 and 2013 • Stone and glass mosaic

I • CABOT PLACE MALL, GROUND LEVEL O • 10 BANK STREET PARK Fusing O • BANK STREET, OUTSIDE JUBILEE I • JUBILEE PLACE MALL, LOWER LEVEL Emma Biggs’ floor mosaic in Cabot Place, his British and Nigerian heritage PARK Richard Hudson is a British Emma Biggs’ Wharf Walk takes us through Pattern for Democracy, is a contemporary artist Yinka Ilori has transformed sculptor renowned for his organic Jubilee Place, following a trail of floor mosaics take on a traditional geometrical floor. Bank Street Park with a colourful artistic language. Hudson says depicting some of the trades passing through Instead of striving for machine-like 3x3 basketball court unique to ‘his work is influenced by the flux, the dockyards that flourished here. Each image precision, elements of the design vary Canary Wharf. The theme of the shape and movement of billions of is framed by a piece of evocative text, derived from in colour, form and even direction, court is ‘be the best you can be’, particles that nature draws together Biggs’ careful research for the commission the differences combining to create a creating a space to encourage from their unbridled chaos to create in 2003. In 2013, when the mall was extended harmonious whole, much like the way we and inspire. Echoing the court beauty, what I attempt to capture, to to a lower floor, Biggs was invited to create four as individuals can harness our variety to design, Yinka’s vibrant artwork enclose, as a kind of homage, is a form new mosaics on the same theme. Wharf Walk create a benign society. A second, smaller also features on the surrounding around which on every surface it is now comprises 17 floor mosaics in all. roundel is located at the entrance from Cabot Square. park walls. possible to trace a continuous line’.

MARTIN RICHMAN • Float CHARLES HADCOCK • Helisphere CHARLES HADCOCK • Torsion II YVONNE DOMENGE • Coquino Coral 27. 2002 • Light, glass, steel 31. 2009 • Cast iron 35. 2009–11 • Cast iron 39. 2015 • Polymer with onyx powder, stainless steel base O • NORTH COLONNADE Martin Richman’s O • HERON QUAYS DLR STATION In O• BANK STREET, OUTSIDE JUBILEE PARK Charles O• BANK STREET Yvonne Domenge was Float was designed to transform an otherwise Helisphere Charles Hadcock has combined Hadcock’s Torsion II has been described as being one of four contemporary Mexican artists unremarkable space into an uplifting visual the characteristics of the sphere with that of like a stairway to the stars. It is an example of the exhibiting their work at Canary Wharf as part experience after dusk. His working life began the helix, a curve in 3-Dimensional space. The artist’s practice of revisiting his sculptures over of UK Year of the Arts 2015. Her work as a lighting designer in the music industry, sphere is made in horizontal sections, which time, transforming them in the process, part of is defined by its abstract and organic nature, but from 1985 he started his artistic career spin out of alignment with its skin, causing a his strategy to kick-start new ideas and new her subject-matter reflecting the relationship exploring the medium of light. He has had curved and stepped distortion that is the helix sources of inspiration. Here Hadcock added between man and the natural world. She numerous exhibitions as well as permanent curve. Walking around the sculpture provides further sections to an existing work Torsion I, evokes a marine scene, inviting the viewer public commissions and temporary projects. the viewer with a multiplicity of gently changing already a tall spiralling form, as he was preparing to step back from the commotion of urban In 2010 he completed a scheme with Eric Parry shapes. Helisphere and Torsion II, also in the for his exhibition in Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Park life to contemplate the beauty and fragility Architects, illuminating the faience façade of permanent collection, were exhibited in in spring 2011. Torsion II and Helisphere were of coral formations. a building in Bond Street, London. Jubilee Park in 2011. purchased for the collection.

JULIUS POPP • bit.fall ‘London Games’ CATHERINE YASS • Descent: HQ3 IGOR MITORAJ • Testa Addormentata KEITH RAND • Original Form 28. 2012 • Valves, pump, computer 32. 2002 • Photographic lightbox 36. 1983 • Bronze 40. 1999 • Douglas fir OCT-MARCH DUSK UNTIL MIDNIGHT I • HERON WALK LINK TO JUBILEE PLACE, O • BANK STREET, OUTSIDE WEST O • NORTH DOCKSIDE, REAR OF 25 NORTH O • CHANCELLOR PASSAGE UNDER DLR LOWER LEVEL Between November 2001 WINTERGARDEN The bandaged face of COLONNADE Original Form was made BRIDGE OVER MIDDLE DOCK Julius Popp’s and January 2002 Catherine Yass was Testa Addormentata (‘Head Asleep’) is specifically for Canary Wharf as a part of bit.fall produces an ever-changing cascade given permission to take photographs and one of three sculptures by Igor Mitoraj the Millennium exhibition The Shape of the of words, taken from live newsfeeds from film from one of the Canary Wharf towers (1944–2014) located in Canary Wharf. His Century. Rand established his reputation the media. Using sophisticated technology, under construction, for a body of work enigmatic works combine the surreal with for innovative sculpture and sensitively a series of valves open at exactly the exhibited for her Turner Prize nomination in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. His earlier informed landscape works inspired by the right moment to let droplets of water fall 2002. Descent: HQ3 is one of three large- sculpture was predominantly in terracotta natural world, realising his ideas through a to form letters. The words appear in mid- scale photographic images subsequently or bronze, but he turned to marble following poetic vision and technical rigour. air, illuminated from above as they move commissioned by Canary Wharf Group. Yass a trip to Carrara, in 1979. In 2012 he was downwards, and are only visible for the time is noted for her films and intensely-coloured photographs that often combine the awarded the Knight Commander’s Cross, one of ’s highest honours. it takes to drop before dissolving forever. positive and the negative. HELAINE BLUMENFELD OBE • Fortuna SERGIO FERMARIELLO • Guerrieri (Warriors) GILLIE & MARC • Tandem Lovers MICHAEL LYONS • Shepherd of the Sun 41. 2016 • Bronze 45. 2013 • Aluminium laser cut-out, paint 49. 2020 • Bronze 54. 1994 • Steel, painted

O • JUBILEE PARK Fortuna is Helaine I • LOBBY, Initially O • SOUTH COLONNADE ‘Tandem Lovers’ I • PLACE ROOF GARDEN. While creating Blumenfeld’s most ambitious work to date. This studying sciences at the University of Naples, takes you on an adventure with Gillie and Shepherd of the Sun Michael Lyons began to think monumental sculpture was inspired by Fortuna, Sergio Fermariello soon turned his attention Marc’s iconic characters, Rabbitwoman of the good shepherd of Christianity, but the discs the Roman goddess of luck, and evokes the to art, focussing on ideas around collective and Dogman. Since they met while also seemed to have a planetary or solar reference, fullness and complexity of the human condition. unconscious memory. In 1993 he represented travelling, exploring has been a huge bringing a more primitive or pagan association. Best known for her large-scale outdoor Italy at the Venice Biennale with a body of work inspiration in their work. Tandem is their Both notions are reflected in the title: Orion, the commissions, Blumenfeld is passionate about developing his exploration of ‘The Warrior’, favourite as they have to work as one, mythological hunter, is often referred to as bringing sculpture into public spaces. Notable taking archetypal symbols and shapes from which is how they work best. The Shepherd and the constellation is associated works in London include Tempesta overlooking antiquity and mythology. In 1995 he began with the sun-god. This work and Unity of Opposites: Hyde Park, and Meridiana in Holland Park. making works that were part painting part Vortex were purchased following Lyons’ exhibition sculpture, as in the pair of works here. CAMILLE WALALA • Captivated by Colour at Canary Wharf in 2014. 50. 2020 • Vinyl SOPHIE SMALLHORN • Colour West KEITH MILOW • Twentieth Century Thames I • ADAM’S PLAZA BRIDGE Created for the first 42. 2004 • Vinyl 46. 1998 • Oxidised iron London Mural Festival in September 2020, local JULIAN WILD • Origin (Vertical) artist, Camille Walala has designed colourful 55. 2017 • Painted steel, polished stainless steel I • STATION, NORTH-WEST I • ONE CANADA SQUARE LOBBY, GROUND geometric shapes, playing with the long ESCALATORS TO MALL, LOWER LEVEL LEVEL Twentieth Century Thames, Keith Milow’s perspective of the tunnel. The design shows an I • CROSSRAIL PLACE ROOF GARDEN Geometry and flat saturated colour are series of works for Canary Wharf’s signature optical pattern that shrinks and elongates as it Julian Wild uses a range of materials from focal points of Sophie Smallhorn’s practice. building, are millennial in their conception. If moves across the panel of the bridge – creating a polished and painted stainless steel to glass Her palette is deceptively simple: proportion you look closely at the apparently rusty discs, distorted effect as visitors pass through. and ceramic. Recent work includes a series and composition are manipulated to create hundreds of embossed names are revealed. of sculptures that act as man-made versions playful and pleasing juxtapositions. Smallhorn Some are immediately recognisable, others of natural structures. Wild also looks at the trained in furniture design, and moved into more obscure, but all are artists, composers, MICHAEL LYONS • Unity of Opposites: Vortex relationship between colour and sculpture. sculpture after graduating. She has since writers and architects who made their mark 51. 2001 • Copper, patinated and waxed In some works the surface of the material undertaken a range of international exhibitions in the twentieth century. A prolific sculptor, underneath is revealed as he leaves areas and commissions, including an installation in painter and installation artist, Milow has O • ADAM’S PLAZA Unity of Opposites: unpainted or splits open a coloured sculpture One Canada Square in 2004. exhibited extensively since the 1960s. Vortex is one of a number of works inspired to reveal its shiny metallic core. by Michael Lyons’ (d. 2019) visits to China, for whose culture he developed a deep SOPHIE SMALLHORN • Colour East LAWSON OYEKAN • Trail with Light (LIP) Series affinity. Echoing the writings of Chinese 43. 2004 • Vinyl 47. 1998 • Terracotta philosophers, this sculpture has been MICHAL ROVNER • Transitions described as embodying the tensions 56. 2019 • LED screen, video I • JUBILEE LINE STATION, NORTH-EAST I • ONE CANADA SQUARE LOBBY, GROUND within modern society between I • CROSSRAIL PLACE, EVERYMAN ESCALATORS TO MALL, LOWER LEVEL LEVEL Four works from Lawson Oyekan’s materialistic cravings and spiritual needs. Geometry and flat saturated colour are the focal series Trail with Light, rough-hewn LOBBY Michal Rovner’s Transitions, points of Smallhorn’s practice. Her palette of terracotta vessels that have been is a new, site-specific, 16-metre-long screen-based artwork addressing coloured vinyls is deceptively simple: proportion described by Oyekan as reflecting PETER NEWMAN • Skystation themes of humanity, history and and composition are manipulated to create emotional experiences in their surface 52. 2005 • Steel playful and pleasing juxtapositions. Smallhorn treatment. They look as if they have been time. The large-scale video artwork trained in furniture design, moving into sculpture exploded and put back together again. O• ADAM’S PLAZA Skystation is a references the striking architecture after graduating. She collaborated with In 2001 he won the Grand Prix Award in new concept in public seating, both of Canary Wharf and capture the Populous Architects to design a spectrum of the 1st World Ceramic Biennale, held in sculptural and interactive, the work lively character of the new Canary colours for the exterior and internal of the 2012 Korea. He had a solo exhibition at Canary allows you to gaze up at the sky and Wharf Elizabeth line station. Olympic Stadium. Wharf in 2011. gain a different perspective of the city. The Part of The Crossrail Art Programme. shape draws from Le Corbusier’s iconic LC4 chaise lounge, encouraging passers-by to KONSTANTIN GRCIC • Six Public Clocks lie down and contemplate the vast expansive WILLIAM TURNBULL • Blade of Venus ALEXANDER BELESCHENKO • Art Glass Wall 1999 • Steel, glass space that surrounds them. 44. 1985 • Bronze 48. 57. 2002 • Antique mouth-blown glass I • ONE CANADA SQUARE LOBBY, GROUND O • NASH COURT Six Public Clocks was the I • , GROUND LEVEL Not publicly winning design in a competition inviting MARTIN RICHMAN • We Could Meet LEVEL Blade of Venus by William Turnbull accessible without permission from Citi. proposals for this public space. Gric’s 2015 • Acrylic, fibre optics, electronics (1922–2012) is part of a series of bronzes that 53. Alexander Beleschenko specialises in originated tg knives. The metamorphosis of these playful installation is based on the iconic . We Could architectural glass, using a variety of Swiss railway clock, here each of the twelve O • CROSSRAIL PLACE, QUAYSIDE hidden references adds an element of ambiguity techniques to produce beautiful and dramatic faces shows a single and different numeral. Meet consists of a grid of over 500 illuminated and the surreal, giving the image a wide frame of effects. His two glass walls for Canary Wharf German designer Grcic is best known for acrylic rods installed in the water channel reference and a compelling figurative identity. demonstrate different aspects of his work. his furniture and product design. Based in and visible from above, programmed so that it Turnbull’s bronzes are distinguished by a rich Both are illuminated through computer Munich but working internationally, Grcic changes colour and frequency throughout the contrast in surface, patina and detail, which create controlled lighting, creating slowly changing has won numerous awards, such as Honorary day and evening. As the lights change colour, a kind of skin. Blade of Venus is situated in the effects. Here ‘walls of light’ create a corridor Royal Designer for Industry awarded by the the juxtapositions of our colour perception centre of the Lobby, behind security barriers, but it made of antique mouth-blown glass infilled with can be seen from the public areas. Royal Society of Arts in 2009. change as well - red in a field of blue appears different to the same red in an orange field. white resin. ALEXANDER BELESCHENKO • Art Glass Wall DANNY LANE • Parting of the Waves SURESH DUTT • Drawing Cube (Blue) JULIAN WILD • ScribbleForm 58. 2002 • Glass, lighting 62. 2003 • Glass, steel 66. 2010 • Mild steel 71. 2020 • Painted Steel

I • CITIGROUP ENTRANCE, CANADA I • LOBBY, GROUND O • MONTGOMERY SQUARE Suresh Dutt was the O • MONTGOMERY SQUARE ScribbleForm is PLACE MALL, LOWER LEVEL LEVEL Not publicly accessible without winner of the First@108 Public Art Award in 2010, part of series of works in Wild’s practice that Not publicly accessible without permission. Danny Lane is well known for his organised by the Royal Society of Sculptors, to investigates the gesture in relation to sculptural permission from Citi, but can be seen monumental sculptures made of horizontally provide an opportunity for artists new to public art form. A flamboyant doodle is created in heavy-duty from just outside the entrance. stacked glass. His work ranges from glass to create a large-scale sculpture commission. The structural steel that articulates into the sky with Alexander Beleschenko’s second furniture combined with wrought iron, to Award was sponsored by Canary Wharf Group in its irregular twists and turns. ScibbleForm disrupts the glass wall for Canary Wharf. Here he large-scale architectural commissions. At first two years. Drawing Cube (Blue) has now been minimal aesthetic by weaving and tangling itself into employed a new technique using Canary Wharf he explored for added to Canary Wharf’s permanent collection. a complex form that defies gravity and sense. poured resin infill combined with the first time the potential of stacking in the enamel glass to create swirling shapes. Beleschenko has undertaken vertical and created two undulating glass EILIS O’CONNELL • Sacrificial Anode RICHARD HUDSON • The Knot numerous public commissions, including works for the Welsh Assembly walls, which transform this space into an 2007 • Cast bronze, stainless steel 2018 • polished mirrored steel Building in Cardiff, the Met Office in Exeter and Millennium Place in Coventry. experience likened to the ‘parting of the seas’. 67. 72.

O • MONTGOMERY SQUARE Eilis O’Connell’s O • WATER STREET Richard Hudson is a sculptor ANTONI MALINOWSKI • Untitled NIGEL HALL RA • Kiss sculptures show her meticulous attention to with a profound interest for nature and the 59. 2000 • Acrylic on canvas 63. 2000 • Painted steel surface detail and close observation of the geometric harmony of its purest, most seductive world around her. A ‘sacrificial anode’ refers to forms. He is intrigued by the visual dialogue that I • CANADA PLACE MALL, LOWER O • SOUTH COLONNADE Nigel Hall’s Kiss an anode attached to a metal object, in order will originate between the infinite curves of his LEVEL Antoni Malinowski’s painting comprises two elements, a cone and a to inhibit its corrosion. This sculpture was sculptures, straddling the boundary between in brilliant blue is executed in his wedge, positioned to balance naturally, purchased following O’Connell’s exhibition in figuration and abstraction and in this case the trademark pure pigment, resulting in a but held slightly apart at the base, a tension Jubilee Park in spring 2013. rectangular structures of Canary Wharf. vivid and vibrant matt finish. It evokes shimmers between them. Often informed dreams of river currents, shoals of fish, by his intense interest in landscape, Hall’s and the gentle play of light on water. sculptures explore spatial ambiguity in NIGEL ROSS • Cross Way • 2003 • European larch SEAN HENRY • Standing Man 2019, Standing Woman The original floor of the adjacent mall, deceptively simple compositions, which 68. Arbor • 2013 • Oak 73. 2020 • Painted bronze since replaced, was designed by Malinowski. He has undertaken a number of often employ mathematical constructs public commissions working with architects including the Royal Court Theatre, in their resolution. Kiss was exhibited as part of Hall’s exhibition at Canary Wharf O • MONTGOMERY SQUARE Cross Way and O • PARK DRIVE Newly created by Sean Henry, London where he created a wall drawing of 86 sq metres. in autumn 2016, which focused on his use of elliptical and orbital configurations. Arbor were carved by hand from single tree two figures standing opposing each other, trunks. Nigel Ross developed his skills after are they here to meet each other, passing one working as a tree surgeon in London and as a another, strangers or friends? forest contractor on the Isle of Arran. By 1995, Looking at their gaze, you might decide for TERENCE WOODGATE • Seating PETER RANDALL PAGE • Between Theory and Practice he was working fulltime as a sculptor and maker, yourself. Sean’s sculptures, based on friends (A Bridge from Euclid and Rorschach) 2019 • Vinyl 60. 2000 • Bead-blasted aluminium 64. usually using fallen trees and taking inspiration and acquaintances, often involving poets from the rhythms and energy of nature. and actors, preferring not to say who they are I • CANADA PLACE MALL, LOWER LEVEL I • BRIDGE OVER BELLMOUTH PASSAGE based on. Terence Woodgate designed the public seating Peter Randall-Page’s new work, is the latest in the Canada Place mall to complement the example of his interest in the relationship IGOR MITORAJ • Centauro original floor design by Antoni Malinowski, between variations in the natural world and SOPHIE RYDER • Minotaur and Hare on Bench 1984 • Bronze since replaced, which evoked a sense of water. the geometric themes which underlie them. 69. 74. conceived 1995 • Bronze. In response, Woodgate decided to create The five images on the north side use Euclidean O • MONTGOMERY SQUARE Mitoraj’s Centauro shows O • PARK DRIVE Sophie is well known her sculptures aluminium seating with invisible fixings that geometry to construct egg-shaped forms using the great mythological beast partially incomplete of animals and mystical creatures, in particular, appear to float like rafts across the floor and only a compass. The five polychrome images but ready for battle. A truly European artist, Mitoraj developing the concept of the Lady-Hare, a woman reflect the light from above. Woodgate to the south are overlaid on these geometric (d.2014) was born in East Germany of Polish/French with the head of a Hare, inspired by the Hare’s of established his design studio in 1988 specialising constructions using a technique akin to parents and initially studied classical painting in the English countryside, as a counterpart to the in furniture and lighting, and has designed public Hermann Rorschach’s famous psychoanalytic Krakow before moving to Paris in 1968. Two other masculine Minotaur of Greek Mythology. The Lady seating for many varied environments. ‘ink blot’ test. sculptures are located on the estate, in Columbus Hare’s body is based on Ryder’s own body, implying Courtyard and outside West Wintergarden. a personal attachment to her sculptures. LBO LICHTBANKOBJEKTE • Lightbenches ‘Classic’ BILL CULBERT • Coup de Foudre II 61. 2011 • Translucent glass, LED 65. 2009 • Neon RACHAEL CHAMPION • Temporary Retention Site for Atmospheric HELAINE BLUMENFELD • Metamorphosis O • CANADA SQUARE PARK Created by I • CHURCHILL PLACE MALL, LOWER LEVEL 70. Particles • 2020 • Steel drums, plants 75. 2019 • Bronze German design duo Heidi and Bernd Bill Culbert (1935-2019) was one of the world’s Spiecker, the ten benches are illuminated leading light artists, working in this medium for O • MONTGOMERY SQUARE Champion’s O • PARK DRIVE Blumenfeld is a renowned through a programmed sequence, adding over forty years, with works in public collections artworks explore the physical, material, artist who is appreciated all over the world. In a new dimension to taking the weight worldwide. His neon light sculpture, Coup de and historical relationships between 2007 she became the first woman to win the Il off your feet. The Lightbenches were Foudre II, consists of lines of coloured light that ecology, industry, and the built Premio Pietrasanta e la Versilia Nel Mondo, launched as part of the Festival of Lights move effortlessly inside and outside the building environment. The metal drums refer to the adding her name to the list of winners of this in Berlin in 2011. Bernd explains ‘the creating the illusion of one continuous piece. It was petrochemical industry, a conceptual link honour including Botero, Pomodoro and Marc emotional interaction of light and colours fabricated by the Birmingham-based City Neon Sign to London’s poor air quality. The sculpture Quinn. Metamorphosis, has been conceived should get the park bench out of its Company Ltd, whose director Laszlo Gregor has addresses the issue of air pollution within using digital technology including a 5 axis conventional context and open up a new collaborated with Culbert and other artists. our cities, encouraging biodiversity and to CNC router, laser scanning and 3D printing. perception of these objects to the viewer’. improve the quality of the air we breathe. POPLAR DLR

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