The public art task force of the London WikiProject is dedicated to completing the coverage of London's public artworks and memorials on Wikipedia, both by creating new articles and by maintaining the
lists of works in each borough. It also grades articles according to their quality and importance. Anyone may join or contribute – you don't have to be in London.
Goals
Complete coverage of London's public art on Wikipedia!
Articles on every significant artwork, particularly those which are
listed at Grades I and II*.
All artworks listed at Grades I and II* have articles as of September 2022.
Completing the
borough lists and standardising them using {{
Public art row}} and related templates. Eventually it might be possible to generate
metadata from these on
Wikidata.
Create an article from the list below, or improve an existing article.
The
list of popular pages within this project's scope is a good indicator of which articles are most in need of attention.
Check that a corresponding Wikidata entry exists, and is complete and accurate. See
here for lists of all Wikidata items for public artworks in London.
Cavanagh, Terry (2007). Public Sculpture of South London. Public Sculpture of Britain. Vol. 10. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Covers the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth.
Cavanagh, Terry (2022). Public Sculpture of Kensington and Chelsea with Westminster South-West. Public Sculpture of Britain. Vol. 22. Watford: PSSA Publishing.
Lloyd, Fran; Potkin, Helen; Thackara, Davina (2011). Public Sculpture of Outer South and West London. Public Sculpture of Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Covers the boroughs of Croydon, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston, Merton, Richmond and Sutton.
Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003). Public Sculpture of the City of London. Public Sculpture of Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011), Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1, Public Sculpture of Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Covers part of the City of Westminster, excluding, among other areas, the former boroughs of Paddington and St Marylebone. Also excludes architectural sculpture, which is to be covered in a future volume.
Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1997), London: City of London, The Buildings of England, vol. 1, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1983), London: South, The Buildings of England, vol. 2, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1991), London: North West, The Buildings of England, vol. 3, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002), London: North, The Buildings of England, vol. 4, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
Cherry, Bridget; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2005), London: East, The Buildings of England, vol. 5, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003), London: Westminster, The Buildings of England, vol. 6, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
Pearson, Lynn (2016),
Public Art 1945–95, Introductions to Heritage Assets, Historic England: See especially the bibliography.
Other books and articles
"Monuments on the Move", 3rd Dimension, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, 3 May 2014, retrieved 10 December 2014 [on Charles Bacon's equestrian statue of Prince Albert, Holborn Circus]
Black, Jonathan (December 2003), ""The Real Thing": Eric Kennington's 24th Infantry Division Memorial in Battersea Park, London (1921–24)", The Burlington Magazine, vol. 145, no. 1209, pp. 854–859,
JSTOR20073318
Black, Jonathan (2013), "Making the Rock of Gibraltar: Ivor Roberts-Jones and the Sir Winston Churchill Commission for Parliament Square (1970–73)", in Black, Jonathan; Ayres, Sara (eds.), Abstraction and Reality: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones, London: Philip Wilson Publishers, pp. 63–83
Brooks, Chris, ed. (2000), The Albert Memorial: The Prince Consort National Memorial: Its History, Contexts and Conservation, London and New Haven: Yale University Press
Brown, Stephanie (2007), G. F. Watts, Physical Energy, Sculpture and Site, Studies in the Art of George Frederic Watts, Compton: Watts Gallery
Chandler, Andrew (1999), Christian Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: Ten Statues on the West Front of Westminster Abbey, London: Dean and Chapter of Westminster
Colin-Russ, Valerie (2012), London Pride: The 10,000 Lions of London, London: Frances Lincoln
Darby, Elisabeth (2003), "The Memorial to the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations and a Missing Statue of Queen Victoria", Sculpture Journal (9): 72–89 (
Memorial to the Great Exhibition)
Darley, Gillian (6 February 2015),
"Comings and goings: Paolozzi and public art", Apollo, retrieved 6 February 2015 [Eduardo Paolozzi's Tottenham Court Road murals, Meridian by Barbara Hepworth and murals by Gordon Cullan and Dorothy Annan]
Dorment, Richard (January 1980), "Alfred Gilbert's Memorial to Queen Alexandra", The Burlington Magazine, 122 (922): 47–54
Echlin, Dominic (2000), "The Garden at St James's Church, Piccadilly: 'Poignant Memorial from the first days of post-war reconstruction'", The London Gardener, 6: 42–50 [Viscount Southwood Memorial]
Edwards, Jason (2006), "Allegorizing love in fin de siècle London: Eros and 'Piccadilly' Aestheticism, c. 1886–93", Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 93–132
Eyres, Patrick (2002), "The Archer: Eric Aumonier's icon of urban travel and of the pre- and post-war London Underground", Sculpture Journal (8): 36–53
Jenkins, David Fraser (2010), "The Meeting Place by Paul Day: a very public commission at St Pancras Station, 2006/9", Sculpture Journal, 19 (1): 91–101
Jolivette, Catherine (December 2008), "London pride: 1951 and figurative sculpture at the South Bank Exhibition", Sculpture Journal, 17 (2): 23–36
Lapp, Axel (1998), "The Freedom of Sculpture: The Sculpture of Freedom – The international sculpture competition for a monument to the unknown political prisoner, London 1951–3", Sculpture Journal (2): 113–23
Mace, Rodney (2005), Trafalgar Square: Emblem of Empire, London: Lawrence and Wishart
Malvern, Sue (2004), ""For King and Country": Frampton's Edith Cavell (1915–20) and the writing of gender in memorials to the Great War", in Getsey, David J. (ed.), Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c. 1880–1930, British Art & Visual Culture Since 1750: New Readings, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 219–44 (
Edith Cavell Memorial)
Munsell, F. Darrell (1991), The Victorian Controversy Surrounding the Wellington War Memorial: The Archduke of Hyde Park Corner, Studies in British History, Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press (
Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot)
Pereira, Dawn (2012), "William Mitchell and the London County Council: the evolution of a classless form of public art", Sculpture Journal, 21 (1): 57–70
"Keep Britain tidy", The Burlington Magazine, vol. 152, no. 1292, November 2010, retrieved 20 November 2014
Discusses the statues of the Queen Mother (The Mall), Keith Park (Waterloo Place) and
Bobby Moore (Wembley), the
Battle of Britain Memorial (Victoria Embankment), the
7 July Memorial (Hyde Park), The Meeting Place (St Pancras Station), Fulcrum by
Richard Serra (Liverpool Street) and the many statues and memorials on the Victoria Embankment.
.JPG)
.jpg)
_(cropped).jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.JPG)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
