List of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth

This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Three Standing Figures 1947 by Henry Moore in Battersea Park

Map of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth

Battersea

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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeDesignationNotes
In TownBattersea Bridge Road1983John RaveraSculptural group[1]
Two SwansBattersea Bridge Road1984Catherine Marr-JohnsonSculptures[2]

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Memorial to the Clapham Junction rail crashSpencer Park1989Richard HealySculpture[3]
SterlingGreat Eastern Wharf1990Neil Lawson-BakerSculpture[4]
Water SculptureChelsea Bridge Wharf2003Caroline LambardSculpture[5]
Garden Tools and SinkSt John's Hill Estate, Clapham Junction2015–2016Rodney HarrisHawkins BrownReliefs[6]
Pinafores and UniformSt John's Hill Estate, Clapham Junction2015–2016Valda JacksonHawkins BrownReliefs[6]
Sunset, Sunrise, SunsetBattersea Power Station tube station2021Alexandre da CunhaGrimshaw ArchitectsKinetic sculpture[7]

Battersea Park

Battersea Park has a history of displaying sculpture by major artists, with large triennial exhibitions in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, although the 1954 and 1957 exhibitions took place in Holland Park instead of Battersea Park.[8]More recently the park presents an annual student sculpture prize with the winning sculpture going on show in for a year.[9] Some of the current sculptures have remained in the park since the large exhibitions.

1948 Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture

This was the first event of its type in Britain and showed 43 sculptures between May and September.[10] The exhibition was extremely successful with over 170,000 visitors.[8]

Selected sculptors and works:

1951 exhibition Sculpture

44 sculptures including ones by Mari Andriessen, Bill?, Butler?, Siegfried Charoux, Charles Despiau, Dobson, Jacob Epstein, Alberto Giacometti, Eric Gill, Henning?, Barbara Hepworth, Maurice Lambert, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Giacomo Manzù, Constantin Meunier, Henry Moore, Antoine Pevsner?, Auguste Rodin and Karel Vogel?.

1960 exhibition Sculpture in the open air

42 sculptures were shown[11] from British and French contemporary sculptors.[8]

List of sculptors:Adams?, Kenneth Armitage, Jean Arp, Mark Batten, André Bloc, Brown?, Butler, Anthony Caro, Clatworthy, Lynn Chadwick, Siegfried Charoux, Richard Bentley Claughton, Marta Colvin, Hubert Dalwood, Dow?, Alan Durst, Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink, Alfred Gerrard, Dora Gordine, Barbara Hepworth, Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, Phillip King? or Peter King?, Eric Kennington, Gilbert Ledward, F. E. McWilliam, Martin?, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Uli Nimptsch, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pablo Picasso, Germaine Richier, John Skeaping, François Stahly, William Turnbull, Josefina de Vasconcellos, Vogel, Charles Wheeler, Ossip Zadkine.

1963 London County Council exhibition Sculpture in the open air

42 sculptures were shown, mainly from British and American contemporary artists.[12]

List of sculptors:Adams, Peter Agostini, Kenneth Armitage, Leonard Baskin, Harry Bertoia, Brown, Butler, Anthony Caro, Alexander Calder, Lynn Chadwick, John Chamberlain, Geoffrey Clarke, Robert Clatworthy, Hubert Dalwood, George Ehrlich, Herbert Ferber, Elisabeth Frink, George Fullard, Joseph Goto, Dimitri Hadzi, Raoul Hague?, Anthony Hatwell, Barbara Hepworth, John Hoskin, Bryan Kneale, Seymour Lipton, F. E. McWilliam, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Reuben Nakian, Uli Nimptsch, Phillip Pavia, Richmond?, George Rickey, Jose de Rivera, James Rosati, Schmidt?, Jason Seley, David Smith, Richard Stankiewicz, Peter Voulkos, William Turnbull.

1966 Greater London Council exhibition Sculpture in the open air

42 sculptures were shown between May and September[13]

List of sculptors: Adams, David Annesley, Kenneth Armitage, Michael Bolus, Brown, Antanas Braždys, Anthony Caro, Hubert Dalwood, Elisabeth Frink, George Fullard, David Hall, Barbara Hepworth, John Hoskin, Michael Kenny, King, Bryan Kneale, Kim Lim, F. E. McWilliam, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Francis Morland, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pickett?, Scott?, Smith, William G. Tucker, Brian Wall

Battersea sculpture prize

Partial table of winners

YearSculptorTitleDetails
2014Michael PecirnoThe Air Above[14]
2013Anna FlemingMagpie Feather[15]
2012Luke BurtonThis & That & These & Those[16]
2011 (13th)Lucy TomlinsConcrete Country[17][18]
2010Dexter DymokeBench[19]
2008Gareth WilliamsIp Dip Dip[20]
2007Maxine SchafferBuckhorn Plantain[20]
2003Andrew BroadbentF-1[20]
2002 (7th)John SummersReborn[20]
2001Wilhelmina BaldwinNor'Stand[20]
2000Kieran DoyleDual Nature[20]
1999Steve BunnRollercoaster[20][21]
1998Si Sapsford[22]
1997Thomas Ostenberg[23]

Current

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DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes

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24th East Surrey Division War MemorialBattersea Park1924Eric KenningtonSculptural groupGrade II*[24]

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Three Standing FiguresBattersea Park1948Henry MooreSculptural groupGrade II[25]
Single Form (Memorial)Battersea Park1961–1962Barbara HepworthSculpture[26]

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Brown Dog MemorialBattersea Park1985Nicola HicksSculpture[27]
Australian World War II Air Crew MemorialBattersea Park1995War memorialErected 15 May 1995.[28][29]
ANZAC Gallipoli War MemorialBattersea Park1998War memorialOpened 25 April 1998; unveiled 25 April 2000.[28][30]
Sheep-seatBattersea Park2000Mark FoldsWooden carved bench[31]
F-1Battersea Park2003Andrew BroadbentSculpture[32]

Nine Elms

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
RODEmbassy Gardens2010–2014Mohamed Qasim AshfaqSculpture[33][34]
FlorianEmbassy Gardens2013Sarah LucasSculptureA giant marrow cast in bronze, alluding to the vegetables sold at the nearby New Covent Garden Market.[33]
Modern MarriageEmbassy Gardens2014Simon FujiwaraSculpture[33]

Putney

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DateArtist / designerTypeMaterialDimensionsDesignationOwner / administratorNotes

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Hartley Memorial ObeliskPutney Heath, near the A3

51°26′51.72″N 0°13′30.72″W / 51.4477000°N 0.2252000°W / 51.4477000; -0.2252000
1776Attributed to George Dance the YoungerRed brick, stone, concrete slabGrade IIErected on the centenary of the Great Fire of London "in memory of an invention for securing buildings against fire"[35]

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Putney War MemorialChurch Square, Putney High Street

51°27′57.37″N 0°12′49.33″W / 51.4659361°N 0.2137028°W / 51.4659361; -0.2137028
1921Grade IIErected 16 June 1921 in St Mary's Churchyard; moved to the current site in 2005.[36]
Water Finds a LevelPutney Embankment Foreshore2022Claire BarclayInstallationBronze and graniteThree artworks, one of which incorporates the Boat Race starting stone.[37]
Armillary Sphere

51°27′45.24″N 0°11′57.46″W / 51.4625667°N 0.1992944°W / 51.4625667; -0.1992944

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Roehampton

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DateArtist / designerArchitect / otherTypeMaterialDesignationNotes

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Pavilion for drinking fountain and horse troughJunction of Roehampton Lane (A306) and Medfield Street

51°26′56.64″N 0°14′23.92″W / 51.4490667°N 0.2399778°W / 51.4490667; -0.2399778
1882Henry DassonJ. C. RadfordDrinking foutainGrey and red graniteGrade II
Mother and ChildWhitelands College, University of Roehampton1951Willi SoukopSculptureConcrete and terracotta[38]

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Roehampton War MemorialPutney Heath

51°27′01″N 0°14′09″W / 51.4504°N 0.2358°W / 51.4504; -0.2358
1952Memorial crossStoneGrade IIReplaces an earlier memorial largely destroyed by bombing in World War II.[39]
The WatchersAlton Estate

51°27′10″N 0°14′43″W / 51.4529°N 0.2453°W / 51.4529; -0.2453
1960Lynn ChadwickSculptural groupBronzeGrade II

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The BullAlton Estate

51°27′08″N 0°14′52″W / 51.4521°N 0.2479°W / 51.4521; -0.2479
1961Robert ClatworthySculptureBronzeGrade II*
Mother and ChildSouthlands College, University of Roehampton1972–1973Ernst EisenmayerSculptureMetal[40]
Spirits of the WoodWhitelands College, University of RoehamptonEarly 21st centuryJanet MacLeodSculptureBronze resin[41]
Dickie and Samoutside Queen Mary's Hospital2009Brian Alabaster MRBSSculptureBronze
In memory of Hugh Colin SmithMount ClareStatue

Southfields

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DateArtist / designerTypeMaterialDesignationNotes
Southfields War MemorialSt Barnabas' churchyard

51°26′34″N 0°11′52″W / 51.4427°N 0.1977°W / 51.4427; -0.1977 (Southfields War Memorial)
1919Whitehead and SonsCalvaryCornish graniteGrade IIUnveiled 4 October 1919.[42]

Streatham

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DateArtist / designerTypeMaterialDimensionsDesignationOwner / administratorNotes
War MemorialStreatham Cemetery

51°26′0.31″N 0°10′30.95″W / 51.4334194°N 0.1752639°W / 51.4334194; -0.1752639

Tooting

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
St Benedict's Clock Tower

51°25′31.14″N 0°9′26.86″W / 51.4253167°N 0.1574611°W / 51.4253167; -0.1574611
1888Clock towerThe subject of a pound-for-pound scheme in which restoration works including timber repairs and renewal of the lead cupola were half met by a conservation grant from Wandsworth Borough Council. The tower originally adorned St Joseph's Roman Catholic college, built in 1888. In 1897 this became the Tooting Home workhouse, and then in 1930 St Benedict's Hospital, which closed in 1981.[43]

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Statue of Edward VIIOutside Tooting Broadway tube station, junction A24 and A217

51°25′39.97″N 0°10′4.71″W / 51.4277694°N 0.1679750°W / 51.4277694; -0.1679750
1911Louis Fritz RoseliebStatueGrade IIThe inscription on the base reads ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, 1911. Reliefs on either side show personifications of Peace and Charity.[44] This was the first statue of Edward VII to be erected after his death.[45]
War memorialAll Saints' churchyard

51°25′49″N 0°09′26″W / 51.4302°N 0.1571°W / 51.4302; -0.1571 (War memorial in All Saints' churchyard)
1920 c. 1920?Memorial crossGrade II[46]
Cherry Tree BenchOutside Tesco Express, Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EN

51°25′57.42″N 0°9′49.89″W / 51.4326167°N 0.1638583°W / 51.4326167; -0.1638583
??Bench[47]

Wandsworth

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DateArtist / designerTypeMaterialDimensionsDesignationOwner / administratorNotes
Huguenot memorialMount Nod, Wandsworth

51°27′30.1″N 0°10′59.5″W / 51.458361°N 0.183194°W / 51.458361; -0.183194
George and DragonRoyal Victoria Patriotic Building, Wandsworth

51°27′12.73″N 0°10′29.65″W / 51.4535361°N 0.1749028°W / 51.4535361; -0.1749028
1857-9Architectural sculpture[48]
Advertising hoardingWandsworth roundabout

51°27′44.69″N 0°11′7.65″W / 51.4624139°N 0.1854583°W / 51.4624139; -0.1854583
JCDecauxsimilar to another on Old Street Roundabout,[49]
SailThe Spit, close to mouth of the River Wandle

51°27′42.07″N 0°11′41.06″W / 51.4616861°N 0.1947389°W / 51.4616861; -0.1947389
2003Sophie HortonsculptureEtched stainless steel with powder coating460 x 250 x 250cm[50]
Tide powered bellBell Lane Creek, The Causeway, Wandsworth

51°27′35.4″N 0°11′36.5″W / 51.459833°N 0.193472°W / 51.459833; -0.193472
November 1993Whitechapel Bell FoundryInstallationWandsworth Borough CouncilInstalled by the Platform arts and environment group[51]

Wimbledon

Part of Wimbledon lies outside the borough of Wandsworth; for other works located there, see List of public art in the London Borough of Merton § Wimbledon
ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
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DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Wimbledon Park War MemorialSt Paul's churchyard, Augustus Road

51°26′35″N 0°13′08″W / 51.4431°N 0.2190°W / 51.4431; -0.2190 (Wimbledon Park War Memorial)
1920?CalvaryGrade IIUnveiled 24 January 1920.[52]

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Wandsworth and Wimbledon War MemorialWimbledon Common

51°26′7.18″N 0°14′48.98″W / 51.4353278°N 0.2469389°W / 51.4353278; -0.2469389
1921Madeline Agar with Brenda ColvinMemorial crossGrade IIUnveiled 15 July 1925.[53][54]
War memorialPutney Vale Cemetery

51°26′20.05″N 0°14′45.01″W / 51.4389028°N 0.2458361°W / 51.4389028; -0.2458361
Tucked away along the side wall, close to the Stag Lane entrance, next to a branch of ASDA, is this forgotten memorial. It appears to have only women's names.

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Tangier Regiment of Foot War MemorialPutney Heath1961?Stone of remembranceAdditional inscriptions recording the formation in 1959 of the regiment's successor, the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, were added in 1986.[55]

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