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


Dalston

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Shacklewell Green War Memorial.jpg Shacklewell Green War Memorial Shacklewell Lane

51°33′11″N 0°04′11″W / 51.5531°N 0.0697°W / 51.5531; -0.0697 (Shacklewell Green War Memorial)
1920 ? War memorial Grade II
Rudimental wuz 'ere.jpg Hackney Peace Carnival Mural 13 Dalston Lane 1985 Jones, MickMick Jones and Ann Walker after Ray Walker Mural N/A

Hackney Central

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
The Nelsons drinking fountain next to St Thomas Square (geograph 4015171 cropped).jpg Nelson, EstherEsther Nelson Memorial Drinking Fountain St Thomas's Square

51°32′31″N 0°03′18″W / 51.5420°N 0.0551°W / 51.5420; -0.0551 (Esther Nelson Memorial Drinking Fountain)
1912 ? Drinking fountain Grade II Unveiled 31 October 1912.
Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae).jpg Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae)
Memorial to the Windrush generation
Narrow Way, near St Augustine's Tower

51°32′51″N 0°03′17″W / 51.5476°N 0.0546°W / 51.5476; -0.0546 (Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae))
2021 Ryan, VeronicaVeronica Ryan Sculptures N/A Unveiled 1 October 2021. The three sculptures represent Caribbean fruits and vegetables, in reference to the nearby Ridley Road Market.
Warm Shores artwork by Thomas J Price.jpg Warm Shores Outside Hackney Town Hall 2022 Price, Thomas J.Thomas J. Price Statues N/A Unveiled 23 June 2022 (Windrush Day). Two figures, of a man and a woman, based on composites of 30 residents of Hackney from the Windrush generation or descended from it.

Hackney Downs

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Hackney Mosaic, The Downs, Clapton.jpg Mosaics Hackney Downs Pavilion 2014 Hackney Mosaic Project Mosaics N/A

Hackney Marshes

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Water Jugglers artwork, Hackney Marshes 2022-03-19.jpg Water Jugglers Hackney Marshes

51°33′22″N 0°02′08″W / 51.5560°N 0.0356°W / 51.5560; -0.0356
2004 Dunn, PeterPeter Dunn Sculpture N/A

Hackney Wick

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Crucifixion and war memorial, St Mary of Eton, Hackney Wick E9.jpg War memorial St Mary of Eton After 1918 ? Crucifix
Granite Boulder Hackney Wick.jpg Boulder Mabley Green

51°32′56″N 0°01′57″W / 51.5490°N 0.0326°W / 51.5490; -0.0326
2008 Frankland, JohnJohn Frankland Sculpture N/A

Haggerston

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Haggerston All Saints War Memorial.jpg War memorial All Saints' churchyard, Livermere Road

51°32′21″N 0°04′25″W / 51.5391°N 0.0737°W / 51.5391; -0.0737 (Haggerston All Saints' War Memorial)
1920 c. 1920 ? Memorial cross Grade II
Stonebridge Common War Memorial.jpg Haggerston Road School War Memorial Stonebridge Common, at the junction of Haggerston Road and Mayfield Road

51°32′24″N 0°04′29″W / 51.5399°N 0.07466°W / 51.5399; -0.07466 (Haggerston Road School War Memorial)
1921 ? Obelisk N/A The school was demolished in the 1930s.
Haggerston interior1.jpg The Elliptical Switchback Haggerston railway station 2010 Hanson, TodTod Hanson Ceramic mural N/A Commemorates the astronomer Edmond Halley, who was born in Haggerston. The first permanent artwork commissioned by the London Overground.

Homerton

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Homerton War Memorial.jpg Homerton War Memorial St Barnabas' churchyard, facing Homerton High Street

51°32′55″N 0°02′33″W / 51.5487°N 0.0426°W / 51.5487; -0.0426 (Homerton War Memorial)
1919 ? Celtic cross Grade II

Hoxton

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
NLR War Memorial rededication panel portrait.jpg North London Railway War Memorial Hoxton railway station

51°31′53″N 0°04′33″W / 51.5315°N 0.0758°W / 51.5315; -0.0758 (North London Railway War Memorial)
1921 Owen, Reginald WynnReginald Wynn Owen Cenotaph Grade II Unveiled 10 February 1921 at Broad Street railway station; reinstalled in the car park of Richmond station in 1989, and on this site in 2011.
Juggling Figure by Simon Stringer, Hoxton.jpg Juggling Figure Hoxton Market 1994 Stringer, SimonSimon Stringer Statue N/A
Dripping Flowers 71 Fanshaw Street

51°31′48″N 0°04′49″W / 51.5300°N 0.0804°W / 51.5300; -0.0804 (Dripping Flowers)
2019 Nerone Mural N/A
Stik in Hoxton Square.jpg Holding Hands Hoxton Square 2020 Stik Sculpture N/A

Lea Bridge

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve, 'Nature's Throne' view 1.jpg Nature's Throne Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve

51°33′41″N 0°02′38″W / 51.56125°N 0.04385°W / 51.56125; -0.04385
1990 Haughney, PaulaPaula Haughney Sculpture N/A Made of granite blocks from a former engine house
'Friendship Tree' by Joel Parkes and Southwold Primary School Pupils, Millfields Park (39445160804).jpg Friendship Tree Millfields

51°33′48″N 0°02′52″W / 51.56332°N 0.04768°W / 51.56332; -0.04768
2008 Parkes, JoelJoel Parkes and pupils of Southwold Primary School Sculpture N/A

London Fields

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
London fields flower sellers 1.jpg Flower Sellers Southern end of London Fields park

51°32′18″N 0°03′36″W / 51.5382°N 0.0600°W / 51.5382; -0.0600 (Flower Sellers)
1988 Freeform Arts Trust Mosaic sculpture N/A Restored in 2018.

Shoreditch

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Drinking fountain at junction of Paul Street and Tabernacle Street, Hackney - viewed from west.jpg Drinking fountain Great Eastern Street, at the junction of Paul Street and Tabernacle Street

51°31′33″N 0°05′02″W / 51.5259°N 0.0839°W / 51.5259; -0.0839 (Drinking fountain)
1880 Nicholson, A.A. Nicholson Columnar drinking fountain Grade II
Statue of Robert Geffrye, Museum of the Home.jpg Statue of Robert Geffrye Museum of the Home, Kingsland Road

51°31′54″N 0°04′35″W / 51.5318°N 0.0764°W / 51.5318; -0.0764 (Statue of Robert Geffrye)
1913 (after an original of 1723) After John Nost Statue in niche Grade I
The war memorial, St John-at-Hackney (geograph 4251871 cropped).jpg Hackney War Memorial Churchyard of St John-at-Hackney

51°32′59″N 0°03′13″W / 51.5497°N 0.0536°W / 51.5497; -0.0536 (Hackney War Memorial)
1921 Cawthra, Joseph HermonJoseph Hermon Cawthra Pillar/obelisk with sculpture Grade II
Hitchcock's Reel.JPG Hitchcock's Reel Shoreditch Park (formerly Leonard Street / St Paul Street) 1996 Edwards, JohnJohn Edwards Sculpture N/A
Alfred Hitchcock sculpture, Gainsborough Studios, London, 2007.jpg Master of Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
Gainsborough Studios, Poole Street

51°32′09″N 0°05′19″W / 51.5359°N 0.0887°W / 51.5359; -0.0887
2001 Donaldson, AnthonyAnthony Donaldson Sculpture N/A
Eine (4385070477).jpg Scary Rivington Street, under railway bridge

51°31′35″N 0°04′43″W / 51.5263°N 0.0787°W / 51.5263; -0.0787 (Scary)
2007 Eine, BenBen Eine Street art N/A Repainted 2019.
Shoreditch Park. The Boulder with Construction site, N1.jpg Boulder Shoreditch Park

51°32′04″N 0°05′12″W / 51.5345°N 0.0867°W / 51.5345; -0.0867 (Boulder)
2008 Frankland, JohnJohn Frankland Sculpture N/A
Ramp to Queensbridge Road from Regents Canal, London E2 - geograph.org.uk - 1386703.jpg Queensbridge Sculpture Queensbridge Road/Regent's Canal

51°32′10″N 0°04′12″W / 51.5360°N 0.0701°W / 51.5360; -0.0701 (Queensbridge Sculpture)
Parkes, JoelJoel Parkes Sculpture N/A
Don't shoot Bambi.jpg Don't Shoot Rivington Street, west of East London Line viaduct

51°31′34″N 0°04′44″W / 51.5262°N 0.0789°W / 51.5262; -0.0789 (Don't Shoot)
2014 Bambi Stencil N/A
The Restless Course clock, Shoreditch, London.jpg The Restless Course Corner of Scrutton Street and Clifton Street

51°31′24″N 0°04′59″W / 51.5233°N 0.08298°W / 51.5233; -0.08298 (The Restless Course)
2018 Pritchard Themis Clock N/A

South Hackney

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
St John of Jerusalem Church War Memorial, Hackney 04.jpg War memorial Churchyard of St John of Jerusalem's Church, Lauriston Road

51°32′25″N 0°02′47″W / 51.5402°N 0.0465°W / 51.5402; -0.0465 (War memorial at St John of Jerusalem's Church)
1921 ? Memorial cross Grade II Unveiled 22 October 1921.

Stoke Newington

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates
Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Abney park watts.jpg Statue of Isaac Watts Abney Park Cemetery

51°33′49″N 0°04′39″W / 51.5637°N 0.0774°W / 51.5637; -0.0774 (Statue of Isaac Watts)
1845 Baily, Edward HodgesEdward Hodges Baily Statue Grade II
St Mary, Church Street, Stoke Newington - War Memorial (geograph 4398899).jpg War memorial Churchyard of St Mary's New Church

51°33′39″N 0°05′05″W / 51.5609°N 0.0848°W / 51.5609; -0.0848 (War memorial at St Mary's New Church)
1920 Scott, Charles Marriott OldridCharles Marriott Oldrid Scott Memorial cross Grade II Unveiled 11 October 1920.
Bust of Edgar Allan Poe, Stoke Newington, London.jpg Bust of Edgar Allan Poe Stoke Newington Church Street 2011 Perrott, RalphRalph Perrott Bust N/A
Clissold Park London - panoramio (cropped).jpg Tree sculpture Clissold Park

51°33′32″N 0°05′23″W / 51.55899°N 0.08968°W / 51.55899; -0.08968
N/A

See also

  • The Towers of Hackney (1970s – 2009)
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