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Art on the Park
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is filled with different artworks, sculptures and installations which celebrate local community and history and make world-class art accessible to all.
Click on a link on the map below to discover your favourite and then plan your visit to see it in person! Or read on to learn more.
Art on the Park Trail
Art on the Park Trail
The Park is home to a unique collection of artworks which are curated specially to be experienced in the landscape and rival many of the works in galleries across London. Some are large and striking while others are hidden gems, but they are all inspired by the community, history and visitors from near and far.
Follow the Art on the Park Trail and discover them all!
Discover your favouriteWaterfront Art
Waterfront Art
Look out for three new artworks at Stratford Waterfront, which highlight the activities, rhythms and stories of our East Bank partners and communities.
Lubna Chowdhary, Temporal Trace, 2024
Temporal Trace stretches through the terraces to Waterfront Square outside V&A East Museum. Set into the ground it draws on Kolam, a South Indian traditional decorative practice, where rice flour patterns are created at building thresholds to welcome guests. Its arrangement of lines and dots, spaced to a human stride, invites interaction and references the pattern-making forms of music, dance and design.
Michael Landy, Lemon Meringue, 2024
Located near the river, Lemon Meringue (rhyming slang) presents 24 fluorescent signs. Each one connects a phrase from Cockney rhyming slang to its surroundings through everyday aspects of local life. It combines iconic examples like 'Apples & Pears’ (stairs) and ‘Rosie Lee’ (tea) with more recent versions like ‘Custard Jelly’ (telly) alongside contemporary phrases re-imagined by the artist in collaboration with spoken-word artist Jonzi D such as ‘Jollof Rice’ (nice).
Find out more on Cockney rhyming slang here and the oral history project Voices of East Bank www.eastbankvoices.co.uk
AA Murakami, In Mountains Shadow, 2023
Standing between London College of Fashion, UAL and V&A East Museum, In Mountains Shadow is inspired by the forms and colours of traditional Chinese landscape painting. The sculpture is crafted to slow the wind’s passage, tracing how elemental forces shape environments. Its layered metal sheets play with light to create a natural phenomenon of overlapping patterns known as the moiré effect.
A.A.Murakami is an artist duo based in Tokyo / London, renowned for their innovative sensory installations that explore the profound connection between art and nature.
Find out moreA Place Beyond
A Place Beyond
Situated directly outside V&A East Museum, A Place Beyond is Thomas J Price's tallest work to date. The sculpture depicts a fictionalised young person in casual dress, mobile phone in-hand, looking out to a horizon full of possibilities.
A Place Beyond is created from an amalgamation of images, 3D scans and observations. Constructed in bronze, using digital technology and ancient techniques, Price continues to critique narratives within classical sculpture.
The sculpture acts as a quiet emblem for change and a rejection of social or racial profiling to instead create connection through everyday moments. The V&A East Youth Collective were consulted during the process to help create an important new public artwork for east London, celebrating the diversity of the area.
UCL East Art
UCL East Art
Trēow of Time, 2023
Larry Achiampong & David Blandy
For their first permanent artwork, Larry Achiampong and David Blandy engaged in conversations with UCL academics and responded to the landscape surrounding the new UCL East campus. They have created a hyper-real installation inspired by 3D video gaming and their time spent between the natural and virtual worlds.
The film was shot on location in Epping Forest, which once stretched down to Romford Road. Local people helped save the forest from destruction in the 1870s, preserving it for future generations. In the film, we follow Achiampong’s son (an east London resident) as he marvels at a huge, ancient oak tree. His presence deliberately challenges racist ideas about who belongs in the English countryside, reclaiming it as a space for everyone.
The artwork is a meditation on our relationship to nature: vital to our wellbeing but inevitably reduced by urban development. Yet, with the oak at its centre and vines wrapping its walls, it also hints at a different reclaiming, through the possibilities of rewilding.
Please Take a Seat
Please Take a Seat
Please Take a Seat – a contemporary reinterpretation of a Victorian park bench – is an exploration of representation, identity, and place. Developed by Mahtab Hussain in collaboration with The Line’s Youth Collective, the engraved prompt ‘Hello, let’s make a portrait together’ invites you to sit, reflect and use the bench as a prop to create your own portrait and share using #PortraitsOnTheLine.
This interaction forms a growing, collaborative portrait of East London, created by residents and visitors to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, that returns the bench to its historic role in activating civic space.
The bench features selected motifs from the artist and the Youth Collective’s research into the local area including the Bow Bells, a Grey Heron and a microphone to represent Newham’s association with grime music. Digitally scanned portraits of the Youth Collective are cast on the back panel of the bench.
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The Line is a free public art walk between Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2, following the waterways and the line of the Greenwich Meridian. Featuring an evolving programme of art installations, projects and events, The Line illuminates an inspiring landscape where everyone can explore art, nature and heritage for free.
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