Photograph by Robyn Barrow
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Tag Archives: Art On the Underground
Please Mind the Art
The Hut Project // 2008
A soothing female voice echoes throughout the London underground. “Please mind the gap between the train and the platform.” It serves as a reminder to be careful where I step. However, there is no calming voice telling me to please mind the art that is displayed on the same tube platform. Launched in 2000, various contemporary artists are commissioned to create works for the underground. These four works I saw in the South Kensington tube station.
Dealing La Bas // 2008
Henrik Håkansson // 2008
Charlie Tweed // 2008
Underground Art
Lucy // The Grey Coat Hospital School // 2013
What better way to commemorate the Tube, London’s underground metro system, than to have school children, inspired by working artists, create works of art to hang below ground in a project titled Tracing the Line. Using the walls of the tube stations as a gallery, these 331 students ranging in age worked together to create pieces to hang in their new exhibition space, the London Underground. How many have you seen?
Anne Harild // Pause // Drawing and collage on paper // 2014
Anne Harild // Cluster // Drawing and collage on paper // 2014
For more information on Tracing the Line visit http://art.tfl.gov.uk/labyrinth/tracing-the-line/
