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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.
Discover your favourite below and then plan your visit to see it in person!
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
Plus look out for new artwork on the waterfront space in front of East Bank.
AA Murakami, In Mountains Shadow, 2023
Wind shaped the landscape of east London. Heavy industry settled here, taking advantage of the eastward winds pushing toxic fumes to the outskirts, sparing other parts of the city from heavier pollution. Today, much of the industry has left, but the winds persist.
To manage strong currents between V&A East Museum and London College of Fashion, UAL, AA Murakami designed two overlapping sets of mesh screens. Their dramatic mountain-shaped contours and pigmentation take inspiration from Chinese landscape painting.
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Michael Landy, Lemon Meringue, 2024
The artwork was commissioned as part of the Waterfront Art within Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park curated by Louise Trodden on behalf of London Legacy Development Corporation. It is associated with the cultural and education organisations of East Bank.
Michael Landy has named the artwork 'Lemon Meringue' as according to the conventions of the style that means 'Rhyming Slang'.
To find out more about this please go to the Voices of East Bank Website. www.eastbankvoices.co.uk or follow the link to the page about Cockney Rhyming Slang here.
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Lubna Chowdhary, ‘Temporal Trace’, 2023
Set into the ground of Waterfront Square, this artwork is inspired by the South Indian decorative tradition of Kolam. As a sign of welcome, people use rice flour to draw geometric patterns at the entrances of their homes each morning.
Imagining the public space facing V&A East Museum and London College of Fashion as a threshold, Lubna Chowdhary draws from this tradition to invite people in. Scaled to a human stride, the artwork is meant to be played and interacted with as people move across it. The work also takes inspiration from pattern-making activities happening across the East Bank site, including musical notation, textile design, and dance choreography.
Find out moreOpen! Channel! Flow!
Open! Channel! Flow!
Polly Morgan (b. 1980)
Taken from the name given to any conduit with a free surface, OPEN! CHANNEL! FLOW! consists of two triangles of furrowed concrete connected by painted, iridescent fibreglass casts of snakes that spill from the crevices and connect the two.
Through the use of materials commonly used in boatbuilding and nail decoration, Morgan uses modern technology to mimic nature at its most dazzling and obfuscatory. The snakes are moulded into their concrete trenches, with their scales reflecting light as rainbows.
The sculpture represents how we are all shaped and constrained by our environment: the refracted light is the energy, ebb and flow of ideas, and the serpentine forms embody all life; at points intertwining, repelling and jostling for position.
The First Plinth: Public Art Award and OPEN! CHANNEL! FLOW! is generously supported by the Mirisch and Lebenheim Charitable Foundation.
Learn moreUCL 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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