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

1 Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf
2 Mile End and Bow
3 Poplar
4 Rotherhithe
5 Spitalfields
6 Wapping
7 Whitechapel
8 External links
9 References

Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf [edit]

Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
Robert Milligan	Museum of London Docklands Hertsmere Road	1813	Richard Westmacott
Testa Addormentata	40 Bank Street	1983	Igor Mitoraj
Couple on a Seat	Cabot Square	1984	Lynn Chadwick	^[1]
Two Men on a Bench	Cabot Square	1990	Giles Penny
Centauro	Upper Bank Street	1994	Igor Mitoraj
The Man With Open Arms	West India Avenue	1995	Giles Penny
Traffic Light Tree	roundabout to east of Canary Wharf	1998	Pierre Vivant	^[2]
Returning to Embrace	10 Cabot Square	2000	Jon Buck
It Takes Two	One Canada Square	2002	Bob Allen	^[3]
HSBC lions	8 Canada Square	2002	Wagstaff !after W. W. Wagstaff
The Domino Players	Clove Crescent		Kim Bennet
London River Man	Ensign House, Marsh Wall

Mile End and Bow [edit]

Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
William Shakespeare	University of East London, Water Lane	1840
Richard Green	East India Dock Road	1865/6	Edward W. Wyon	^[4]
William Ewart Gladstone	in front of Bow Church, Bow Road	1882	Albert Bruce-Joy
Clement Attlee	Limehouse Library to 2009 then moving to Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road (move date unknown)	1988	Frank Forster
Knowledge	Library Square on the campus of Queen Mary, University of London
Renaissance	junction of Saffron Avenue and Clove Crescent		Maurice Blick

Poplar [edit]

Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
Shadow Play	In front of Compass House, Mulberry Place	1992	Dave King	^[4]
Virginia Settlers Monument	Jamestown Way	1999	Wendy Taylor	^[4]
Meridians and Metaphors	Near the junction of Clove Crescent and Saffron Avenue		David Jacobson

Rotherhithe [edit]

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
	James Walker	Greenland Dock

Spitalfields [edit]

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
	I Goat	Brushfield Street	2011	Kenny Hunter	[1]
	Vortex	Lamb Street	1999	Barbara Sandler	[2]

Wapping [edit]

Image	Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
	bust of John Rennie	Spirit Quay		John Revera

Whitechapel [edit]

Title / individual commemorated	Location	Date	Sculptor	Source
Alexandra of Denmark	Whitechapel Road, behind the Royal London Hospital	1908	George Edward Wade	[3]
Girl With a Dolphin	St. Katharine's Way, outside Guoman Hotel	1973	David Wynne
William Booth bust	Mile End Road	1927	George Edward Wade	^[5]
William Booth	Mile End Road	1979 (casting)	George Edward Wade	[4]
Edward VII memorial	Mile End Road	1911	W S Frith	^[5]
Les Naïdes	45 Whitechapel Road	1985	Ivor Abrahams	[5]
Spitalfields Column	Middlesex Street	1995	Richard Perry	[6]
Ram and Magpie	Allen Gardens Playground, Buxton Street	1996	Paula Haughny	[7]
Shaheed Minars Martyr monument Altab Ali	Altab Ali Park, on the corner of Whitechapel Road and White Church Lane	1999	Shaheed Minar	[8]

External links [edit]

Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets at Wikimedia Commons

References [edit]

^ Couple on a Seat - Lynn Chadwick (1984) - Wharf Accessed 4 April 2010
^ The Traffic Light Tree, Pierre Vivant 1998 (CityNoise) accessed 31 March 2010
^ Public and Corporate Commissions | Bob Allen - Sculptor Accessed 4 April 2010
^ ^a ^b ^c Poplar's Free Art & History. Accessed 14 November 2010
^ ^a ^b Ben Weinreb, ed. (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). pp. 866–876. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.

v t e Public art and memorials in London

Statues	Charles I George IV Richard Coeur de Lion Oliver Cromwell Earl Haig George V Winston Churchill Sherlock Holmes Bobby Moore Nelson Mandela Former statues Statues of British royalty

Memorials	The Monument Golden Boy of Pye Corner Wellington Monument Duke of York Column Nelson's Column Buxton Memorial Fountain Albert Memorial Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice Victoria Memorial Michael Faraday Memorial Diana Memorial Fountain National Police Memorial

War memorials	Crimean War Memorial Cenotaph Royal London Fusiliers Monument Great Western Railway War Memorial National Submarine War Memorial RAF Memorial Machine Gun Corps Memorial Royal Artillery Memorial La Délivrance Tower Hill Memorial Polish War Memorial National Firefighters Memorial Canada Memorial Memorial Gates Australian War Memorial Animals in War Memorial Monument to the Women of World War II Battle of Britain Monument New Zealand War Memorial RAF Bomber Command Memorial

Other works	Diana Fountain, Bushy Park Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square Crystal Palace Dinosaurs The Burghers of Calais Old Father Time Elfin Oak Dragon boundary marks Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Traffic Light tree World Cup Sculpture Big 4 ArcelorMittal Orbit

By borough	City of London Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster (architectural sculpture)

Organisations	Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association Art on the Underground

Statues in London on Wikimedia Commons

v t e London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Districts	Bethnal Green Blackwall Bow Bow Common Bromley-by-Bow Cambridge Heath Canary Wharf Coldharbour Cubitt Town Globe Town East Smithfield Fish Island Hackney Wick Isle of Dogs Leamouth Limehouse Mile End Millwall Old Ford Poplar Ratcliff St. George in the East St Katharine Docks Shadwell Spitalfields Stepney Wapping Whitechapel

Attractions	Brick Lane Christ Church, Spitalfields Fournier Street Museum of Childhood Museum in Docklands Ragged School Museum St Katharine Docks Tower Bridge Tower of London Traitors' Gate Whitechapel Art Gallery London Olympic Park

Street markets	Petticoat Lane Brick Lane Columbia Road Old Spitalfields Roman Road

Parks and open spaces	Altab Ali Park Bartlett Park Island Gardens Langdon Park Mile End Park Mudchute Tower Hamlets Cemetery Victoria Park

Constituencies	Bethnal Green and Bow Poplar and Limehouse

Bridges and tunnels	Blackwall Tunnel Rotherhithe Tunnel Tower Bridge

Tube and rail stations	Aldgate East All Saints Bethnal Green Bethnal Green railway station Blackwall Bow Church Bow Road Bromley-by-Bow Cambridge Heath railway station Canary Wharf (DLR) Canary Wharf (tube) Crossharbour Devons Road East India Heron Quays Island Gardens Limehouse Mile End Mudchute Poplar Shadwell South Quay Stepney Green Tower Gateway Tower Hill Wapping railway station West India Quay Westferry Whitechapel

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List of public art in Tower Hamlets

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Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf [edit]

Mile End and Bow [edit]

Poplar [edit]

Rotherhithe [edit]

Spitalfields [edit]

Wapping [edit]

Whitechapel [edit]

External links [edit]

References [edit]

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