The Line (sculpture trail)

The Line is a public sculpture trail in East London, that roughly follows the line of the Greenwich meridian from Stratford International railway station to North Greenwich tube station.[1]

The Line
Works featured in The Line sculpture trail

North of the river
  • Anish Kapoor: ArcelorMittal Orbit. It is the UK's tallest sculpture at 115 metres tall. It was commissioned by the Greater London Authority[2]
  • Carsten Höller: The Slide, 2016. Entwined in the ArcelorMittal Orbit, this 178m long steel slide, is the world's tallest and longest tunnel slide ( as of 2020): it offers a 40-second descent, 12 twists and turns, and speeds of up to 24 km/h.[3]
  • Thomas J. Price: Reaching Out at Three Mills Green only the third sculpture of a black woman in the UK.[4]
  • Abigail Fallis:DNA DL90. This 9.3 m sculpture, commissioned in 2003 is made up of 22 shopping trolleys in the shape of a double helix. It was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick’s discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure.[5]
  • Joanna Rajkowska: The Hatchling. This work is a 180 x 240 x 180 cm replica of the egg of a blackbird, one of Britain's most common birds, known for its song and distinctive blue-green coloured brown-speckled eggs.This is a mixed media work and sound equipment plays the noises made by chicks as they prepare to hatch.[6]
  • Laura Ford: Bird Boy (without a tail). A sculpture of a lost child, wearing a bird costume standing motionless on the edge of a pontoon in the Royal Docks, hoping he will go unnoticed.[7]

South of the river
  • Anthony Gormley: Quantum Cloud Evoking the quantum age, and suggesting an unstable relation between energy and mass, it questions whether the body is produced by the field or the field by the body.[8]
  • Gary Hume: Liberty Grip , sculpture in bronze on a monumental scale, alluding to traditional commemorative sculpture, in three sections modelled on the arm of a stone mannekin.[9]
  • Richard Wilson: A Slice of Reality, Standing permanently on the foreshore of the Thames, this 21.34 x 10.6 x 8.84m sculpture is a 1/8th slice of what was originally the Arco Trent sand dredger.[10]
  • Thomson & Craighead: Here, this sculpture is a standard road sign displaying the 24,859 mile distance around the earth and back.[11]
  • Alex Chinneck: A Bullet from a Shooting Star, this 35 metres (115 ft) 15 tonne work takes the form of an upside down electricity pylon, balancing on its tip, leaning at a precarious angle.[12]

References
  1. "The Line". Time Out London. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  2. "Anish Kapoor". The Line. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  3. "Carsten Höller". The Line. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. "Thomas J Price - The Line - London's Public Art Walk". The Line. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  5. "Abigail Fallis". The Line. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  6. "Joanna Rajkowska". The Line. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  7. "Laura Ford - Bird Boy - Royal Victoria Docks - The Line London". The Line. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  8. "Antony Gormley - The Line - London's first art trail". The Line. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  9. "Gary Hume". The Line. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  10. "Richard Wilson". The Line. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  11. "Thomson & Craighead". The Line. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  12. "Alex Chinneck". The Line. Retrieved 6 August 2020.

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