List of public art in Wandsworth

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

Battersea

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	In Town	Battersea Bridge Road	1983	Ravera, JohnJohn Ravera	Sculptural group	N/A	[1]
	Two Swans	Battersea Bridge Road	1984	Marr-Johnson, CatherineCatherine Marr-Johnson	Sculptures	N/A	[2]
	Sterling	Great Eastern Wharf	1990	Lawson-Baker, NeilNeil Lawson-Baker	Sculpture	N/A	[3]
	Water Sculpture	Chelsea Bridge Wharf	2003	Lambard, CarolineCaroline Lambard	Sculpture	N/A	[4]

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.^[5] More recently the park presents an annual student sculpture prize with the winning sculpture going on show in for a year.^[6] 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.^[7] The exhibition was extremely successful with over 170,000 visitors.^[5]

Selected sculptors and works:

• Auguste Rodin – The Age of Bronze/Man Awakening to Nature
• Ossip Zadkine – Laokoon
• Charles Despiau – Eve
• Henri Matisse – a bas-relief
• Barbara Hepworth – Helikon
• Henri Laurens – Les Ondines
• Eric Gill – Mankind
• Henry Moore – Recumbent Figure 1938, Three Standing Figures
• Jacques Lipchitz – Figure
• Aristide Maillol – The Three Graces, Venus with necklace
• Jacob Epstein – Girl with Gardenias, The Visitation

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^[8] from British and French contemporary sculptors.^[5]

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.

• Silent film from British Pathé of the sculptures
• News report from British Pathé of the sculptures

1963 London County Council exhibition 'Sculpture in the open air'

42 sculptures were shown, mainly from British and American contemporary artists.^[9]

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^[10]

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

• Silent film from British Pathé of the sculptures and a visit by Princess Margaret

Battersea sculpture prize

Partial table of winners

Year	Sculptor	Title	Details
2014	Michael Pecirno	The Air Above	[11]
2013	Anna Fleming	Magpie Feather	[12]
2012	Luke Burton	This & That & These & Those	[13]
2011 (13th)	Lucy Tomlins	Concrete Country	[14][15]
2010	Dexter Dymoke	Bench	[16]
2008	Gareth Williams	Ip Dip Dip	[17]
2007	Maxine Schaffer	Buckhorn Plantain	[17]
2003	Andrew Broadbent	F-1	[17]
2002 (7th)	John Summers	Reborn	[17]
2001	Wilhelmina Baldwin	Nor'Stand	[17]
2000	Kieran Doyle	Dual Nature	[17]
1999	Steve Bunn	Rollercoaster	[17][18]
1998	Si Sapsford		[19]
1997	Thomas Ostenberg		[20]

Current

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	Memorial to the 24th London Division	Battersea Park	1924	Kennington, EricEric Kennington	Sculptural group	Grade II*	[21]
More images	Three Standing Figures	Battersea Park	1948	Moore, HenryHenry Moore	Sculptural group	Grade II	[22]
	Single Form (Memorial)	Battersea Park	1961–2	Hepworth, BarbaraBarbara Hepworth	Sculpture	N/A	[23]
	Brown Dog Memorial	Battersea Park	1985	Hicks, NicolaNicola Hicks	Sculpture	N/A	[24]
	Sheep-seat	Battersea Park	2000	Folds, MarkMark Folds	Wooden carved bench	N/A	[25]
	F-1	Battersea Park	2003	Broadbent, AndrewAndrew Broadbent	Sculpture	N/A	[26]
	Australian WW2 Air Crew Memorial	Battersea Park	erected 16/5/1995		War Memorial	N/A	[27][28]
	Anzac Gallipoli War Memorial	Battersea Park	Opened 25 April 1998, Unveiled 25 April 2000		War Memorial	N/A	[27][29]

Putney

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
	Load	Riverside, outside restaurant on junction of Lower Richmond Road and The Embankment	1989	Alan Thornhill
	Exodus	In centre of Leaders Gardens at the end of The Embankment/Festing Road	2008	Alan Thornhill
	Horizontal Ambiguity	Embankment/Dukes Head, Thames Place	2008	Alan Thornhill
	The Turning Point	Junction of Putney Bridge Road and Putney High Street	2008	Alan Thornhill
	Punch and Judy	Putney Wharf riverside near slipway/end of Brewhouse Street	2008	Alan Thornhill
	Motherfigure	Putney Wharf riverside, from Deodar Road footpath entrance	2008	Alan Thornhill
	Nexus	Wandsworth Park, on southernmost path (running parallel with Putney Bridge Road)	2008	Alan Thornhill
	Pygmalion	Wandsworth Park riverside, near entrance from Prospect Quay and Riverside Quarter	2008	Alan Thornhill
	Fall	Prospect Quay/Riverside Quarter	2008	Alan Thornhill
	Boat Race starting stone	The Embankment, Putney	19th century

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	War memorial	St Mary's Church, Putney 51°27′57.37″N 0°12′49.33″W / 51.4659361°N 0.2137028°W
	Armillary Sphere	51°27′45.24″N 0°11′57.46″W / 51.4625667°N 0.1992944°W
	Hartley Memorial Obelisk	Putney Heath, near the A3 51°26′51.72″N 0°13′30.72″W / 51.4477000°N 0.2252000°W	1776	Attributed to George Dance		Red brick, stone, concrete slab		Grade II listed		Erected on centenary of the Great Fire of London 'in memory of an invention for securing buildings against fire'[30]

Roehampton

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	Dickie and Sam	outside Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton		Brian Alabaster MRBS	Sculpture	Bronze
	Pavilion for drinking fountain and horse trough	junction of Roehampton Lane (A306) and Medfield Street. Roehampton — Barnes 51°26′56.64″N 0°14′23.92″W / 51.4490667°N 0.2399778°W
	in memory of Hugh Colin Smith	Mount Clare			Statue

Streatham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	War Memorial	Streatham Cemetery 51°26′0.31″N 0°10′30.95″W / 51.4334194°N 0.1752639°W

Tooting

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	St Benedict’'s Clock Tower	51°25′31.14″N 0°9′26.86″W / 51.4253167°N 0.1574611°W	1888		Clock tower		The subject of a recent pound for pound scheme, with restoration works including timber repairs and renewal of lead cupola being 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 http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Wandsworth/Wandsworth.shtml
More images	Statue of Edward VII	outside Tooting Broadway tube station, junction A24 and A217 51°25′39.97″N 0°10′4.71″W / 51.4277694°N 0.1679750°W	1911	Roselieb, Louis FritzLouis Fritz Roselieb	Statue	Grade II	Inscription on the base reads ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, 1911. Reliefs on either side show personifications of Peace and Charity.[31]
	Bench	outside Tesco Express, Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EN 51°25′57.42″N 0°9′49.89″W / 51.4326167°N 0.1638583°W			Bench	N/A

Wandsworth

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Owner / administrator	Notes
	Huguenot memorial	Mount Nod, Wandsworth 51°27′30.1″N 0°10′59.5″W / 51.458361°N 0.183194°W
	George and Dragon	Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, Wandsworth 51°27′12.73″N 0°10′29.65″W / 51.4535361°N 0.1749028°W	1857-9		Architectural sculpture					[32]
	Advertising hoarding	Wandsworth roundabout 51°27′44.69″N 0°11′7.65″W / 51.4624139°N 0.1854583°W							JCDecaux	similar to another on Old Street Roundabout,[33]
	Sail	The Spit, close to mouth of the River Wandle 51°27′42.07″N 0°11′41.06″W / 51.4616861°N 0.1947389°W	2003	Sophie Horton	sculpture	Etched stainless steel with powder coating	460 x 250 x 250cm			[34]

Wimbledon Common

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Type	Designation	Notes
	War Memorial	Wimbledon Common 51°26′7.18″N 0°14′48.98″W / 51.4353278°N 0.2469389°W
	War Memorial	Putney Vale Cemetery 51°26′20.05″N 0°14′45.01″W / 51.4389028°N 0.2458361°W					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 just women's names on it

References

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3. "Sterling, Sculpture, Parkgate Rd.", National Recording Project (Public Monuments & Sculpture Association), retrieved 2 May 2015
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30. Hartley Memorial Obelisk (North East of Wildcroft Manor), Wandsworth
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32. Former Royal Victoria Patriotic School, Wandsworth
33. The Wandsworth Roundabout – Circles in the sky
34. Sail on Sophie Horton's website

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