The milkmaid statue by Regents Park
If you wander towards Regents Park from Camden you may come across a pile of old stones, and on top, a statue of a milkmaid.
If you wander towards Regents Park from Camden you may come across a pile of old stones, and on top, a statue of a milkmaid.
The newish tower block on the borders of Shoreditch and Spitalfields has gained a new mural, by the artist Agostino Iacurci.
Sitting outside an oriental carpet shop in Highgate is a camel. Sami, for that’s the camel’s name is a life-size fibreglass camel who has sat outside the shop for the past 35 years, and is a bit of a local landmark.
Two favourite characters of a pair of New York-based artists have arrived in London – a rabbit-headed woman and a dog-headed man.
A collection of rusting steel blocks piled up to look like a man, this 8-bit computer graphic of a statue is another of Antony Gormley’s human expressions.
The memory of the poet William Blake can be found, maybe slightly oddly underneath the railway arches in Waterloo
It looks like it’s been there since the Barbican was built, but this long row of 1960s ceramic art only arrived at the Barbican in 2013.
This tall grey lady just outside London City Airport is Athena, and she’s also the tallest bronze sculpture in the UK.s
A four-storey work of art has gone up in Covent Garden, with the words of Love, Hope & Joy emblazoned across a building overlooking the Piazza.
In Paternoster Square is a sculpture of a shepherd and sheep, also called Paternoster – the sculpture that is, not the sheep. They are unnamed.
Just outside Leytonstone tube station, by the bus stop, is a most appropriate work of public art – a cluster of buses, made from bricks.
A posh street in Westminster has a statue of Queen Anne resting against the side wall of one of the posh houses.
There may be sharks in the Regents Canal near Haggerston — later this year, and it’s art.
On the edges of the Broadgate office estate can be found four large slabs of basalt stone, looking not entirely unlike a family.
A call has been issued for a public work of art to be displayed at Latimer Road tube station.
This bronze statue is by Leslie Cubitt Bevis (1892-1984) and was cast at the Morris Singer foundry. It’s also quite unusual for modern times, as the face and hands have been gilded.
If you wander down a road off Victoria, you might spot a rather fine concrete frieze running along a 1960s building.
There is a mosaic mural of a swan in Rotherhithe that has an indirect link with the late entertainer, Max Bygraves.
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