Each year, the City of London displays sculptures. The sculptures were placed in late June, and they allow workers and visitors to the City to explore artwork. This is the eleventh year of the sculptures now, and many of the works you will see were also displayed in the previous year or two. The sculptures are created by emerging and well-known sculptors and artists. This year features many that have already been on display with very few new pieces.
"Bloom Paradise" - Jun T. Lai
Keep reading below to see what this year's Sculpture in the City is all about.
"Burial" - Alice Channer
This sculpture was displayed from last summer, and it depicts two organic forms that appear as burials. They are made from material from demolished city buildings.
"Miss" - Emma Louise Moore
This marble takes on a reflective and translucent form when the sun passes through it.
"Earthing" - Jocelyn McGregor
Human organic hybrids are created with this piece, which contains human limbs that seem to emerge from snails.
"Rough Neck Business" - Mike Ballard
This sculpture is created from hoardings found across London, such as the Olympic Park and Dalston. It symbolises great change across cities. This was on display last year.
"The Garden of Floating Words" - Elisa Artesero
This is a permanent sculpture with a poem "You've Gone Touching Leaves in the Moonlight". It was created for Canary Wharf's Winter Lights a few years ago and has been on display at this location for the past few years now.
"Untitled" - Bosco Sodi
The artist was inspired by putting wet sand in piles to create these sculptures, which appear like stalagmites, which destroyed the original artwork in the process. These are the only surviving sculptures as the others perished in Hurricane Sandy.
"Summer Moon" - Udo Rondinone
The artist has created a series of tree sculptures, particularly focusing on ancient olive trees.
"Sandwich" - Sarah Lucas
This sculpture was displayed in Regent's Park last year. Its focus is to put a recognisable object, such as a sandwich, in an unlikely place.
"Cosmos" - Eva Rothschild
These three painted structures are placed together and mimic surrounding architecture of the city. The sculpture was on display from last summer.
"Generations (Part Two)" - Claudia Weiser
Historical and biographical imagery with a human aspect is illustrated onto the backs of the escalators at Leadenhall.
"We" - Emma Smith
This neon sign displays two messages interchangably. "We are all one" changes into "We are alone" with different letters illuminated.
"Invasion" - Shezad Dawood
The artwork of the monster character explores relationships between the U.S. and Pakistan and Cold War propaganda as well as characters from video games.
"Symbols" - Guillaume Vandame
These colourful flags appeared for last year's Sculpure in the City, and they depict the PRIDE flag colours.
"Orphans" - Bram Ellens
These sculptures made an appearance last year, and they are created from canvases of artwork that were created from paintings saved after their creative owners died.
"Bloom Paradise" - Jun T. Lai
Hope and love and regeneration symbolise the colourful flowers, such as the lotus flower. These sculptures were in place last year.
"The Granary" - Jesse Pollock
This sculpture is of a traditional granary building, a rural building that is used to store grain. It has been created with beaten metal, and it symbolises rural crisis in the environment but also the inability to let go of heritage.
"Habitat" - Pedro Pires
This sculpture seems to take on a human form when viewed from one angle and a tree from a different angle. It symbolises the environment and human's part in it.
"In Loving Memory" - Oliver Bragg
These plaques on benches symbolise a memorialisation of a person or a dedication. These brass plaques, some of which appeared last year, poke humour at the dedication of abstract ideas and fictional people.
"Nests" - Victor Seward
These are 3D-printed "fruits" that also act as bird nests in the city.
Previous years of London's Sculpture in the City are included below:
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