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Three Standing Figures 1947 by Henry Moore in Battersea Park

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

Map of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth

Battersea

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
In Town Battersea Bridge Road 1983 John Ravera — Sculptural group — [1]
Two Swans Battersea Bridge Road 1984 Catherine Marr-Johnson — Sculptures — [2]

More images 		Memorial to the Clapham Junction rail crash Spencer Park 1989 Richard Healy — Sculpture — [3]
Sterling Great Eastern Wharf 1990 Neil Lawson-Baker — Sculpture — [4]
Water Sculpture Chelsea Bridge Wharf 2003 Caroline Lambard — Sculpture — [5]
Garden Tools and Sink St John's Hill Estate, Clapham Junction 2015–2016 Rodney Harris Hawkins Brown Reliefs — [6]
Pinafores and Uniform St John's Hill Estate, Clapham Junction 2015–2016 Valda Jackson Hawkins Brown Reliefs — [6]
Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset Battersea Power Station tube station 2021 Alexandre da Cunha Grimshaw Architects Kinetic sculpture — [7]


Battersea Park

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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.[8] More recently the park presents an annual student sculpture prize with the winning sculpture going on show in for a year.[9] Some of the current sculptures have remained in the park since the large exhibitions.

1948 Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture

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This was the first event of its type in Britain and showed 43 sculptures between May and September.[10] The exhibition was extremely successful with over 170,000 visitors.[8]

Selected sculptors and works:

1951 exhibition Sculpture

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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

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42 sculptures were shown[11] from British and French contemporary sculptors.[8]

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.

1963 London County Council exhibition Sculpture in the open air

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42 sculptures were shown, mainly from British and American contemporary artists.[12]

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

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42 sculptures were shown between May and September[13]

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

Battersea sculpture prize

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Partial table of winners

Year Sculptor Title Details
2014 Michael Pecirno The Air Above [14]
2013 Anna Fleming Magpie Feather [15]
2012 Luke Burton This & That & These & Those [16]
2011 (13th) Lucy Tomlins Concrete Country [17][18]
2010 Dexter Dymoke Bench [19]
2008 Gareth Williams Ip Dip Dip [20]
2007 Maxine Schaffer Buckhorn Plantain [20]
2003 Andrew Broadbent F-1 [20]
2002 (7th) John Summers Reborn [20]
2001 Wilhelmina Baldwin Nor'Stand [20]
2000 Kieran Doyle Dual Nature [20]
1999 Steve Bunn Rollercoaster [20][21]
1998 Si Sapsford [22]
1997 Thomas Ostenberg [23]

Current

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes

More images 		24th East Surrey Division War Memorial Battersea Park 1924 Eric Kennington Sculptural group Grade II* [24]

More images 		Three Standing Figures Battersea Park 1948 Henry Moore Sculptural group Grade II [25]
Single Form (Memorial) Battersea Park 1961–1962 Barbara Hepworth Sculpture — [26]

More images 		Brown Dog Memorial Battersea Park 1985 Nicola Hicks Sculpture — [27]
Australian World War II Air Crew Memorial Battersea Park 1995 War memorial — Erected 15 May 1995.[28][29]
ANZAC Gallipoli War Memorial Battersea Park 1998 War memorial — Opened 25 April 1998; unveiled 25 April 2000.[28][30]
Sheep-seat Battersea Park 2000 Mark Folds Wooden carved bench — [31]
F-1 Battersea Park 2003 Andrew Broadbent Sculpture — [32]


Nine Elms

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
ROD Embassy Gardens 2010–2014 Mohamed Qasim Ashfaq Sculpture — [33][34]
Florian Embassy Gardens 2013 Sarah Lucas Sculpture — A giant marrow cast in bronze, alluding to the vegetables sold at the nearby New Covent Garden Market.[33]
Modern Marriage Embassy Gardens 2014 Simon Fujiwara Sculpture — [33]


Putney

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Owner / administrator Notes

More images 		Hartley Memorial Obelisk Putney Heath, near the A3

51°26′51.72″N 0°13′30.72″W / 51.4477000°N 0.2252000°W / 51.4477000; -0.2252000 		1776 Attributed to George Dance the Younger Red brick, stone, concrete slab Grade II Erected on the centenary of the Great Fire of London "in memory of an invention for securing buildings against fire"[35]

More images 		Putney War Memorial Church Square, Putney High Street

51°27′57.37″N 0°12′49.33″W / 51.4659361°N 0.2137028°W / 51.4659361; -0.2137028 		1921 Grade II Erected 16 June 1921 in St Mary's Churchyard; moved to the current site in 2005.[36]
Water Finds a Level Putney Embankment Foreshore 2022 Claire Barclay Installation Bronze and granite — Three artworks, one of which incorporates the Boat Race starting stone.[37]
Armillary Sphere

51°27′45.24″N 0°11′57.46″W / 51.4625667°N 0.1992944°W / 51.4625667; -0.1992944


Putney Sculpture Trail

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Main article: Putney Sculpture Trail

Roehampton

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Material Designation Notes

More images 		Pavilion for drinking fountain and horse trough Junction of Roehampton Lane (A306) and Medfield Street

51°26′56.64″N 0°14′23.92″W / 51.4490667°N 0.2399778°W / 51.4490667; -0.2399778 		1882 Henry Dasson J. C. Radford Drinking foutain Grey and red granite Grade II
Mother and Child Whitelands College, University of Roehampton 1951 Willi Soukop — Sculpture Concrete and terracotta — [38]

More images 		Roehampton War Memorial Putney Heath

51°27′01″N 0°14′09″W / 51.4504°N 0.2358°W / 51.4504; -0.2358 		1952 Memorial cross Stone Grade II Replaces an earlier memorial largely destroyed by bombing in World War II.[39]
The Watchers Alton Estate

51°27′10″N 0°14′43″W / 51.4529°N 0.2453°W / 51.4529; -0.2453 		1960 Lynn Chadwick — Sculptural group Bronze Grade II

More images 		The Bull Alton Estate

51°27′08″N 0°14′52″W / 51.4521°N 0.2479°W / 51.4521; -0.2479 		1961 Robert Clatworthy — Sculpture Bronze Grade II*
Mother and Child Southlands College, University of Roehampton 1972–1973 Ernst Eisenmayer — Sculpture Metal — [40]
Spirits of the Wood Whitelands College, University of Roehampton Early 21st century Janet MacLeod — Sculpture Bronze resin — [41]
Dickie and Sam outside Queen Mary's Hospital 2009 Brian Alabaster MRBS — Sculpture Bronze —
In memory of Hugh Colin Smith Mount Clare Statue


Southfields

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Designation Notes
Southfields War Memorial St Barnabas' churchyard

51°26′34″N 0°11′52″W / 51.4427°N 0.1977°W / 51.4427; -0.1977 (Southfields War Memorial) 		1919 Whitehead and Sons Calvary Cornish granite Grade II Unveiled 4 October 1919.[42]


Streatham

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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 / 51.4334194; -0.1752639


Tooting

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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 / 51.4253167; -0.1574611 		1888 Clock tower The subject of a pound-for-pound scheme in which restoration works including timber repairs and renewal of the lead cupola were 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.[43]

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 / 51.4277694; -0.1679750 		1911 Louis Fritz Roselieb Statue Grade II The inscription on the base reads ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, 1911. Reliefs on either side show personifications of Peace and Charity.[44] This was the first statue of Edward VII to be erected after his death.[45]
War memorial All Saints' churchyard

51°25′49″N 0°09′26″W / 51.4302°N 0.1571°W / 51.4302; -0.1571 (War memorial in All Saints' churchyard) 		1920 c. 1920 ? Memorial cross Grade II [46]
Cherry Tree 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 / 51.4326167; -0.1638583 		? ? Bench — [47]


Wandsworth

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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 / 51.458361; -0.183194
George and Dragon Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, Wandsworth

51°27′12.73″N 0°10′29.65″W / 51.4535361°N 0.1749028°W / 51.4535361; -0.1749028 		1857-9 Architectural sculpture [48]
Advertising hoarding Wandsworth roundabout

51°27′44.69″N 0°11′7.65″W / 51.4624139°N 0.1854583°W / 51.4624139; -0.1854583 		JCDecaux similar to another on Old Street Roundabout,[49]
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 / 51.4616861; -0.1947389 		2003 Sophie Horton sculpture Etched stainless steel with powder coating 460 x 250 x 250cm [50]
Tide powered bell Bell Lane Creek, The Causeway, Wandsworth

51°27′35.4″N 0°11′36.5″W / 51.459833°N 0.193472°W / 51.459833; -0.193472 		November 1993 Whitechapel Bell Foundry Installation Wandsworth Borough Council Installed by the Platform arts and environment group[51]


Wimbledon

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Part of Wimbledon lies outside the borough of Wandsworth; for other works located there, see List of public art in the London Borough of Merton § Wimbledon
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Wimbledon Park War Memorial St Paul's churchyard, Augustus Road

51°26′35″N 0°13′08″W / 51.4431°N 0.2190°W / 51.4431; -0.2190 (Wimbledon Park War Memorial) 		1920 ? Calvary Grade II Unveiled 24 January 1920.[52]

More images 		Wandsworth and Wimbledon War Memorial Wimbledon Common

51°26′7.18″N 0°14′48.98″W / 51.4353278°N 0.2469389°W / 51.4353278; -0.2469389 		1921 Madeline Agar with Brenda Colvin Memorial cross Grade II Unveiled 15 July 1925.[53][54]
War memorial Putney Vale Cemetery

51°26′20.05″N 0°14′45.01″W / 51.4389028°N 0.2458361°W / 51.4389028; -0.2458361 		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 only women's names.

More images 		Tangier Regiment of Foot War Memorial Putney Heath 1961 ? Stone of remembrance — Additional inscriptions recording the formation in 1959 of the regiment's successor, the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, were added in 1986.[55]


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