This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Hackney.
Map of public art in the London Borough of Hackney
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Shacklewell Green War Memorial | Shacklewell Lane 51°33′11″N 0°04′11″W / 51.5531°N 0.0697°W |
1920 | ? | War memorial | Grade II | [1] | |
Hackney Peace Carnival Mural | 13 Dalston Lane | 1985 | Mick Jones and Ann Walker after Ray Walker | Mural | — | [2] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Esther Nelson Memorial Drinking Fountain | St Thomas's Square 51°32′31″N 0°03′18″W / 51.5420°N 0.0551°W |
1912 | ? | Drinking fountain | Grade II | Unveiled 31 October 1912. [3] | |
Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae) Memorial to the Windrush generation |
Narrow Way, near
St Augustine's Tower 51°32′51″N 0°03′17″W / 51.5476°N 0.0546°W |
2021 | Veronica Ryan | Sculptures | — | Unveiled 1 October 2021. The three sculptures represent Caribbean fruits and vegetables, in reference to the nearby Ridley Road Market. [4] [5] | |
Warm Shores | Outside Hackney Town Hall | 2022 | Thomas J. Price | Statues | — | Unveiled 23 June 2022 ( Windrush Day). Two figures, of a man and a woman, based on composites of 30 residents of Hackney from the Windrush generation or descended from it. [6] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Mosaics | Hackney Downs Pavilion | 2014 | Hackney Mosaic Project | Mosaics | — | [7] [8] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Water Jugglers |
Hackney Marshes 51°33′22″N 0°02′08″W / 51.5560°N 0.0356°W |
2004 | Peter Dunn | Sculpture | — | [9] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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War memorial | St Mary of Eton | After 1918 | ? | Crucifix | [10] | ||
Boulder |
Mabley Green 51°32′56″N 0°01′57″W / 51.5490°N 0.0326°W |
2008 | John Frankland | Sculpture | — | [11] [12] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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War memorial |
All Saints' churchyard, Livermere Road 51°32′21″N 0°04′25″W / 51.5391°N 0.0737°W |
1920 | c.? | Memorial cross | Grade II | [13] | |
Haggerston Road School War Memorial | Stonebridge Common, at the junction of Haggerston Road and Mayfield Road 51°32′24″N 0°04′29″W / 51.5399°N 0.07466°W |
1921 | ? | Obelisk | — | The school was demolished in the 1930s. [14] | |
The Elliptical Switchback | Haggerston railway station | 2010 | Tod Hanson | Ceramic mural | — | Commemorates the astronomer Edmond Halley, who was born in Haggerston. [15] The first permanent artwork commissioned by the London Overground. [16] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Homerton War Memorial | St Barnabas' churchyard, facing Homerton High Street 51°32′55″N 0°02′33″W / 51.5487°N 0.0426°W |
1919 | ? | Celtic cross | Grade II | [17] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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North London Railway War Memorial |
Hoxton railway station 51°31′53″N 0°04′33″W / 51.5315°N 0.0758°W |
1921 | Reginald Wynn Owen | Cenotaph | Grade II | Unveiled 10 February 1921 at Broad Street railway station; reinstalled in the car park of Richmond station in 1989, and on this site in 2011. [18] |
Juggling Figure | Hoxton Market | 1994 | Simon Stringer | Statue | — | [19] | |
Dripping Flowers | 71 Fanshaw Street 51°31′48″N 0°04′49″W / 51.5300°N 0.0804°W |
2019 | Nerone | Mural | — | [20] [21] | |
Holding Hands | Hoxton Square | 2020 | Stik | Sculpture | — | [22] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Nature's Throne | Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve 51°33′41″N 0°02′38″W / 51.56125°N 0.04385°W |
1990 | Paula Haughney | Sculpture | — | Made of granite blocks from a former engine house [23] [24] |
Friendship Tree | Millfields 51°33′48″N 0°02′52″W / 51.56332°N 0.04768°W |
2008 | Joel Parkes and pupils of Southwold Primary School | Sculpture | — | [25] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Flower Sellers | Southern end of London Fields park 51°32′18″N 0°03′36″W / 51.5382°N 0.0600°W |
1988 | Freeform Arts Trust | Mosaic sculpture | — | Restored in 2018. [26] [27] |
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Drinking fountain | Great Eastern Street, at the junction of Paul Street and Tabernacle Street 51°31′33″N 0°05′02″W / 51.5259°N 0.0839°W |
1880 | A. Nicholson | Columnar drinking fountain | Grade II | [28] | |
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Statue of Robert Geffrye |
Museum of the Home, Kingsland Road 51°31′54″N 0°04′35″W / 51.5318°N 0.0764°W |
1913 (after an original of 1723) | After John Nost | Statue in niche | Grade I | [29] [30] |
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Hackney War Memorial | Churchyard of
St John-at-Hackney 51°32′59″N 0°03′13″W / 51.5497°N 0.0536°W |
1921 | Joseph Hermon Cawthra | Pillar/obelisk with sculpture | Grade II | [31] [32] |
Hitchcock's Reel | Shoreditch Park (formerly Leonard Street / St Paul Street) | 1996 | John Edwards | Sculpture | — | [33] | |
Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock |
Gainsborough Studios, Poole Street 51°32′09″N 0°05′19″W / 51.5359°N 0.0887°W |
2001 | Anthony Donaldson | Sculpture | — | [34] | |
Scary | Rivington Street, under railway bridge 51°31′35″N 0°04′43″W / 51.5263°N 0.0787°W |
2007 | Ben Eine | Street art | — | Repainted 2019. [35] | |
Boulder |
Shoreditch Park 51°32′04″N 0°05′12″W / 51.5345°N 0.0867°W |
2008 | John Frankland | Sculpture | — | [11] [12] | |
Queensbridge Sculpture | Queensbridge Road/
Regent's Canal 51°32′10″N 0°04′12″W / 51.5360°N 0.0701°W |
Joel Parkes | Sculpture | — | [36] | ||
Don't Shoot | Rivington Street, west of East London Line viaduct 51°31′34″N 0°04′44″W / 51.5262°N 0.0789°W |
2014 | Bambi | Stencil | — | [37] | |
The Restless Course | Corner of Scrutton Street and Clifton Street 51°31′24″N 0°04′59″W / 51.5233°N 0.08298°W |
2018 | Pritchard Themis | Clock | — | [38] [39] |
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War memorial | Churchyard of St John of Jerusalem's Church,
Lauriston Road 51°32′25″N 0°02′47″W / 51.5402°N 0.0465°W |
1921 | ? | Memorial cross | Grade II | Unveiled 22 October 1921. [40] |
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Isaac Watts |
Abney Park Cemetery 51°33′49″N 0°04′39″W / 51.5637°N 0.0774°W |
1845 | Edward Hodges Baily | Statue | Grade II | [41] |
War memorial | Churchyard of St Mary's New Church 51°33′39″N 0°05′05″W / 51.5609°N 0.0848°W |
1920 | Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott | Memorial cross | Grade II | Unveiled 11 October 1920. [42] | |
Bust of Edgar Allan Poe | Stoke Newington Church Street | 2011 | Ralph Perrott | Bust | — | [43] | |
Tree sculpture |
Clissold Park 51°33′32″N 0°05′23″W / 51.55899°N 0.08968°W |
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