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List of public art in the London Borough of Islington
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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Islington.
Map of public art in the London Borough of Islington
Barnsbury
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Thornhill Road Gardens War Memorial | Thornhill Road Gardens, junction of Thornhill Road and Richmond Avenue 51°32′20″N 0°06′37″W / 51.5389°N 0.1102°W |
1920 | ? | War memorial with Celtic cross | Grade II | [1] |
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Huntingdon Arms sculpture | 115 Hemingford Road (former Huntingdon Arms pub) 51°32′27″N 0°06′49″W / 51.5409°N 0.1136°W |
? | Relief sculpture | — | [2] | |
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Animal Park | Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens 51°32′07″N 0°07′02″W / 51.5353°N 0.1171°W |
2006 | Monica Shanta Brown | Mosaics | — |
Canonbury
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Horizon | Canonbury Square, eastern section 51°32′37″N 0°06′00″W / 51.5437°N 0.0999°W |
2019 | David Harber | Armillary sphere | — |
Clerkenwell
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Justice, Mercy, Portrait of George III and other motifs | Middlesex Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green | 1779–1782 (building) | Joseph Nollekens | Relief sculptures | Grade II* | [3] |
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Postal Workers' War Memorial Western Postal District |
Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Farringdon Road 51°31′29″N 0°06′40″W / 51.5246°N 0.1111°W |
1920 | ? | Aedicule | Grade II | Unveiled 1 January 1920 at Wimpole Street Post Office, Marylebone. After that post office's closure in 1981 the memorial moved to the delivery offices in Rathbone Place; when they in turn closed in 2013 it moved to its current site.[4] |
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Edgerunner | Owens Field, Goswell Road 51°31′50.8″N 0°06′18″W / 51.530778°N 0.10500°W |
Paul Neagu | Sculpture | Unveiled 25 July 2012[5] |
Farringdon
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Samson and Deliah | Greenhill Rents 51°31′11″N 0°06′10″W / 51.5198°N 0.1027°W |
~1609–1610 | Peter Paul Rubens | Painting | — | Copy made for the National Gallery's "On Tour" exhibition in 2007.[6] |
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Memorial to Edward Johnston | Farringdon station | 2017 | Fraser Muggeridge | Mural | — | Unveiled 24 June 2019. Giant reversed wooden letters in the typeface Johnston designed for the London Underground.[7] |
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Avalanche | Farringdon station | 2018 | Simon Periton | Glazing motif | — | A sequence of large diamonds appearing to tumble down the escalator, alluding to the jewellers, goldsmiths and ironsmiths of nearby Hatton Garden.[8] |
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Spectre | Farringdon station | 2018 | Simon Periton | Glazing motif | — | Based on a drawing by Christopher Dresser titled Force and Energy (c. 1867–1873), contemporary with Smithfield Market which is adjacent to the station. Periton's design also references the etched glass found in Victorian pubs.[8] |
Finsbury
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Science and Agriculture | City, University of London, College Building | c. 1894 – c. 1896 | Paul Raphael Montford | Frieze | Grade II | [9] |
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Finsbury War Memorial | Rosebery Avenue | 15 August 1921 | Thomas Rudge | War memorial with statue | Grade II | [10] |
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Faceted Column | Corner of Chiswell Street and Finsbury Pavement 51°31′13″N 0°05′15″W / 51.5204°N 0.0875°W |
1999 | Stephen Cox | Sculpture | — | [11] |
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Memorial to the Moorgate tube crash | Finsbury Square | 2013 | ? | Memorial | — | Unveiled 28 July 2013.[12] |
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Mercury | Top of Triton Court, Finsbury Square | ? | [13] | |||
| 2 figures of Triton the God | Triton Court, Finsbury Square | ||||||
| 4 females | Triton Court clock tower, Finsbury Square |
Finsbury Park
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Crossed pistols tile motif | Finsbury Park station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Tom Eckersley | — | [14] | |
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Balloon mosaics | Finsbury Park station, Piccadilly line platforms | 1983 | Annabel Grey | — | [15] | |
| Sustrans Portrait Bench | Outside Finsbury Park station 51°33′54″N 0°06′20″W / 51.5649°N 0.1056°W |
2013 | ? | Sculpture | — | Depicts Jazzie B, Edith Garrud and Florence Keen.[16][17] | |
| Gillespie Park triptych | Seven Sisters Road, by the entrance to Gillespie Park 51°33′50″N 0°06′21″W / 51.5640°N 0.1058°W |
2013 | London School of Mosaic | Mosaic | — | Made with two local schools and approximately 20 volunteers; represents the flora and fauna of the park. Unveiled 2 December 2013.[18][19] | |
| Elm Tree of Life | Finsbury Park station Wells Terrace entrance 51°33′55″N 0°06′27″W / 51.5653°N 0.1076°W |
2020 | Carrie Reichardt, Karen Francesca and ATM | Mosaic | — | Opened 22 October 2020.[20] | |
| CIL Mosaic | City North Place, at junction with Goodwin Street 51°33′52″N 0°06′27″W / 51.5645°N 0.1075°W |
2021 | Carrie Reichardt | Mosaic | — | Opened during the week of 20 September 2021. Commissioned by the Business Design Centre Group (BDCG) to honour Sam Morris, founder of BDCG and City Industrial Limited (CIL).[21] |
Highbury
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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Boer War Memorial | Highbury Fields | 1905 | Bertram Mackennal | War memorial with statue | Grade II | [22] |
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Statue of Francis Bacon | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II | [22] |
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Statue of Edmund Spenser | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II | [22] |
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The Neighbours | Highbury Quadrant Estate 51°33′31″N 0°05′37″W / 51.5585°N 0.0936°W |
1957 | Siegfried Charoux | Sculptural group | Grade II | [23] |
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Highbury Manor tile motif | Highbury & Islington station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Edward Bawden | — | [24] |
Highgate
- Highgate is partly located outside the borough of Islington; for works not listed here see the relevant sections for the boroughs of Camden and Haringey.