Seven sculptures of varying degrees of abstraction, two of which are recognisable as flasks and one other as a funnel. They relate to the activities taking place inside the building behind, which houses the university's department of biosciences.[8]
The phrase is based on a quotation from the anarchist Emma Goldman: "If voting changed anything, it would be illegal".[12] In the years since its creation the work has been covered by a Perspex sheet and has attracted other graffiti.[13]
Lisson Grove
Lisson Grove, a residential area which urbanised as London expanded northwards in the 19th century, was designated a conservation area in 1990.[14]
Marylebone is an inner-city area roughly defined as being bounded by Oxford Street to the south, Marylebone Road to the north, Edgware Road to the west and Great Portland Street to the east. Portland Place, part of the grand route from Regent's Park to St James's planned by John Nash (who is commemorated by a bust outside All Souls, Langham Place), has historically been an attractive place for the erection of memorials because of its width.[17]
Unveiled 21 February 1824. The Duke, in robes and the collar of the Garter, stands with his right arm rested on two books, which lie on top of a truncated column. Among the symbols which appear on the column shaft is the Masonicall-seeing eye.[18]
Erected 4 November 1851. Bentinck is depicted standing, in a contemporary frock coat. The pedestal appears to have been changed twice since the original installation, the first having been insufficiently lofty and the second excessively so.[19]
Possibly the work Barcaglia exhibited in 1881 under the title Spazzacamino ("Chimney Sweep"). Donated to Marylebone council in 1943, when it was given its present title. Orderly boys were employed by the parish councils of London to clean the streets, but were probably unheard of in Italy.[25]
Grammar, Astronomy, Justice, Philosophy, Homer and Fame
An example of the "large model" of drinking fountain donated by Wallace to the city of Paris from 1872. This cast was erected in Shoreditch in 1904, the gift of a local councillor. Re-erected on this site after restoration in 1960.[28]
Unveiled 24 November 1906 on a site immediately opposite the Royal Polytechnic Institution on Regent Street; relocated in 1933.[29] It also commemorates Hogg's wife Alice and students of the Polytechnic killed in both World Wars.[30]
Unveiled 19 December 1922. The statue was the focus of the Boer War Veterans Association's annual commemoration of the Relief of Ladysmith; a wreath was laid at its foot on 28 February every year until 1970.[33]
Unveiled 13 March 1924. Only the colossal bust of Lister was completed by Brock, who died in 1922. The group of Humanity with a nude male youth was completed by Wright, a studio assistant.[34]
Unveiled 15 May 1965 by Robert F. Kennedy. The fruit of a fundraising campaign by The Sunday Telegraph. Lipchitz struggled with the commission as Kennedy was not alive to take sittings. Displeased with the finished work, he was absent at the unveiling.[38]
The motif depicts the convergence of the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines within a circle representing Oxford Circus.[41] The platform was damaged in a fire in 1984.[42]
The scheme consists of motifs of the detective's head in profile and murals depicting scenes from his adventures.[45] The designs were by Douglas, the over-glaze printing by Moreton.[46]
A glass surround and back-lights were added during improvements to the hospital's forecourt in 2010.[47]
Mosaics and enamel panels
Oxford Circus tube station, Central and Bakerloo line platforms
1983; 1985
Nicholas Munro
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Mosaics and enamel panels
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Munro, a student at the Royal College of Art, based the designs on his (not entirely favourable) impressions of the station. The designs on the Central line platforms refer to the game of Snakes and Ladders and those on the Bakerloo line depict commuters in a maze.[42]
A series of sixteen colourful triumphal arch designs enamelled onto steel sheets. Each arch is made of nine separate steel sheets, which had to be fired about ten times at an enamel sign factory in Sydenham.[48]
30 November 1990. Sly's brief was "for a figure expressing a wry sense of humour"; thus the window cleaner looks up at the 15 or so storeys of Capital House, for which his small ladder will be of little use.[49]
Unveiled 13 July 1993. The piece refers obliquely to the legend of Saint Christopher carrying the Christ child across a river; here the water, in the sculptor's words, "becomes the bridge itself", coursing down the arches of an open bronze structure into four small basins at the bottom and thence into grills in the pavement.[50]
Unveiled 26 February 1997 by Elizabeth II. Wallenberg stands in front of a screen formed from stacked passports; his head is turned towards the Western Marble Arch Synagogue. Another cast of the memorial is in Buenos Aires.[51]
Unveiled 23 September 1999. No site was available on Baker Street itself, but the Abbey National building society, whose head office was on the putative site of No. 221B, agreed to fund the statue.[53]
Unveiled 24 September 2003 by the Duke of Kent. Tomasz Zamoyski, a prominent Polish expatriate, first conceived the idea for the statue to complement the existing statues of Churchill, Eisenhower and de Gaulle in London. The British and Polish governments each gave £5,000 towards the cost.[54]
Sundial in the form of an armillary sphere; the supporting plinth is a former drinking fountain.[61] The sphere of c. 2007–2008 is a replacement of an earlier one.[62]
Field Work
7 Portman Mews South
2009
Shauna McMullan
Garnett and Partners
Architectural sculpture
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A carving of meadow grasses, alluding to this area's largely agricultural character before the mid-18th century.[39][58][63]
The largest vitreous enamel artwork in Europe, decorating a new building and perimeter wall next to the station with patterns inspired by research undertaken in the area.[67]
Unveiled 7 November 2017. The wall behind is inscribed with a quotation from Animal Farm (1945): If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.[69]
Part of Regent's Park lies outside the City of Westminster; for works not listed here see the List of public art in Camden.
Regent's Park is one of London's Royal Parks, located partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the City of Westminster. The sculptures in Queen Mary's Gardens (laid out in the 1930s within the Inner Circle or Regent's Park)[72] were bequeathed by the artist Sigismund Goetze, who lived nearby at Grove House from 1907 until his death in 1939.[73] In 1944 his widow Constance Goetze established a trust fund in his memory, known as the Constance Fund, for the financing of new sculpture in London's parks.[74]
Probably installed for the Marquess of Bute, to whom the lease for St John's Lodge was sold in 1888. Three of the figures are by Goscombe John and date to 1894; one, by Youngman, is of 1938 and the remaining two are undated.[76]
Ornamental sculpture of a putto sitting astride a vulture, believed to have been commissioned by Sigismund Goetze for Grove House. Presented to Queen Mary's Gardens in 1939.[79]
The statue was first exhibited in 1929, when it won the silver medal of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. It was erected on this site in 1931 by the National Council for Animal Welfare, in honour of its founders.[81]
Due to the Second World War the fountain was not installed until 1950, when it was awarded a gold medal award for the best sculpture exhibited in London that year.[82] The site was formerly occupied by a large conservatory belonging to the Royal Botanic Society, demolished in 1931.[76]
Plinth inscribed In affectionate/ memory of/ANNE SHARPLEY/ 1928–1989/ journalist/ who/ loved this garden.[83] Sharpley was a reporter for the Evening Standard.[84]
Inscribed THIS PLAQUE CELEBRATES THE RESTORATION OF THE AVENUE GARDENS BETWEEN 1993 & 1996. THESE GARDENS WERE DESIGNED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS NESFIELD, 1794–1881 & CREATED BETWEEN 1863 & 1865.[85]
Inscribed TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOSE BANDSMEN OF THE 1ST BATTALION/ THE ROYAL GREEN JACKETS/ WHO DIED AS THE RESULT OF A TERRORIST ATTACK/ HERE ON THE 20TH JULY 1982.[86][87]
Plinth inscribed THE AWAKENING/ IN/ FOND MEMORY OF/ ANNE LYDIA EVANS/ 1929–1999/ WHO SHARED/ THE SECRET/ OF THIS GARDEN.[89] Evans was a general practitioner in Marylebone who campaigned to improve the medical care of victims of torture.[90]
Girl and the Jaguar, Fox and the Girl, Boy and Butterflies
Based on a medieval Lanterne des Morts, a memorial to the dead in La Souterraine in the Creuse Valley, France. Joass was also the co-designer, with Peter Chalmers Mitchell, of the Zoo's Mappin Terraces, built 1913–14.[93]
Presented to the Zoo by the sculptor in September 1976.[94] Also on the New Lion Terraces is another sculpted head of a lion, a fragment from the demolished Lion House of 1875–76.[93]
Unveiled by Christopher Robin Milne in September 1981, the statue commemorates Winnie-the-Pooh's namesake, a black bear cub which lived in London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934.[95] The statue was a gift from the Trustees of Pooh Properties.[96]
Unveiled 10 November 1982.[97] A gift from Timym, the statue originally stood on the south side of the Michael Sobell Pavilions for Apes and Monkeys, but by 2009 it had been moved to its current site.[98]
Plaque inscribed This Globe Sundial shows in miniature how the Earth/ is bathed in sunlight./ Time is indicated by the fin which casts the least shadow./ The combination of the tilt of the earth's axis and the/ varying speed of its progress on an elliptical path around/ the sun causes a difference between the time shown and/ mean time of up to 16 minutes. The greatest differences/ occur in February and October.[99] A work in aluminium on a brick pedestal, it was a gift of Alcan Aluminium Ltd.[100]
Ambika Paul was the daughter of Swraj Paul, later a peer, who funded the Children’s Zoo named in her memory. She died of leukaemia, aged 5, in 1968.[103]
This second memorial to the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh shows the bear with the Canadian soldier who donated her to the Zoo;[104] A cast of a group originally unveiled in Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1992. The model for the figure of Colebourn was his son, Fred.[105]
Amery's website gives the following commentary on the work: "Here the artist is expressing the violent force of nature, but without malice. We see two cheetahs frozen in the moment of their pursuit, their prey is unseen. The outcome of the chase is invariably the kill, but the cheetahs are working in co-operation and are hunting out of necessity in order to survive."[106]
The result of a commission on the theme of Victorian attitudes towards nature, Hunkin’s clock takes inspiration from the work of the cartoonist Saul Steinberg and from Rowland Emett’s Guinness Clock for the 1951 Festival of Britain.[112]
Unveiled 21 October 2015. A plaque in English and Chinese is behind the statue; the English reads: Ming was a giant panda who lived at ZSL London and Whipsnade Zoos from 1938 to 1944. During the Second World War she became a symbol of friendship and stability as Londoners suffered under the Blitz. Thousands of children visited her until her death in 1944. This statue is offered on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II as a symbol of the enduring friendship between China and the UK, presented by the people of Sichuan.[121]
Works no longer on public display
Image
Title / subject
Location and coordinates
Date
Artist / designer
Architect / other
Type
Designation
Notes
Bear and Child
London Zoo
1928
"E. M. A."
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Sculptural group
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Donated to the Zoological Society of London by Constance Goetze in memory of her husband. The sculpture's location within the Zoo changed several times; in 2013 it took up residence in the ZSL's library.[122]
St John's Wood, a suburban area of mainly Victorian buildings in the northern extremity of the City of Westminster, was declared a conservation area in 1968.[124]
Unveiled 13 July 1903.[125] At the front of the memorial is a casting of Onslow Ford's own Muse from his Shelley Memorial in University College, Oxford; behind is a portrait head of the sculptor by Lucchesi.[126]
A gift by Baker, the architect of the Grandstand, to the Marylebone Cricket Club and Lord's.[128] Moved to the Mound Stand in 1996 to allow for the demolition of Baker's Grandstand and the construction of its replacement by Nicholas Grimshaw.[129]
13 sportspeople, including tennis players, golfers, cricketers, swimmers, oarsmen and footballers are depicted in a procession. The inscription PLAY UP PLAY UP AND PLAY THE GAME is taken from Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada" (1892). The setting was remodelled in 1995–1996.[130]
Hartwell designed the bronze group of Saint George spearing the dragon for a war memorial in Newcastle upon Tyne, commissioned by Earl Haig. This later casting was a gift of Sigismund Goetze.[131]
Alice Drakoules was the treasurer of the Humanitarian League who lived near this site, at Regent's Park; the relief depicts a stag, a fox, a heron, a squirrel, a horse, a cat and a dog, representing the broad compass of the organisation's work.[132]
Primarily a muralist, Feibusch turned to sculpture in 1970 as his eyesight began to decline. He produced a John the Baptist in cast resin in 1973.[133] This cast of 1977 was installed to mark the completion of the church's new hall.[134]
^Harley Street Conservation Area Audit(PDF). Westminster City Council, Department of Planning and City Development. 16 June 2008. p. 57. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
^"Constance Fund, 1944–". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII. 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
^Conservation Area Audit: St John's Wood(PDF). Westminster City Council, Department of City Planning and Development. 16 June 2008. p. 18. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
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