List of Art on the Underground Tube map covers

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Since 2004, Art on the Underground has commissioned artists to create covers for London Underground's pocket Tube map. [1] These free maps are one of the largest public art commissions in the UK. [2] Over 35 different designs have been produced, with designs from a wide variety of British and international artists. [3] Around 2 million maps are printed for each cover, down from a high of around 12 million in the early 2010s. [2] [4] In 2014, The Guardian published a pictorial survey of the first 10 years' designs, [5] and The Londonist has a survey up to 2017. [6] Between 2016 and 2018, there were also a series of covers for Night Tube. [7]

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Tube map covers

NoYearMonthArtistTitle
12004August Emma Kay You Are in London [8]
22005June Gary Hume Untitled [9]
32006February David Shrigley Untitled [10]
4June Yinka Shonibare Global Underground Map [11]
52007January Liam Gillick The Day Before (You Know What They'll Call It? They'll Call it the Tube) [12] [13]
6July Jeremy Deller and Paul RyanPortrait of John Hough (TfL's longest serving member of staff - 45 years of service) [14] [15]
72008January Cornelia Parker Underground Abstract [16] [17]
8March Mark Wallinger Going Underground [18]
9October Pae White ...fragment of a Magic Carpet, circa 1213 [19]
102009March Paul Noble Untitled [20]
11September Richard Long Earth [21]
122010May Barbara Kruger Untitled (Tube Map) [22] [23]
132011March Eva Rothschild Good Times [24]
14August Michael Landy All My Lines in the Palm of Your Hand [25] [26]
15December Yayoi Kusama Polka Dots Festival [27]
162012June Tracey Emin The Central Line [28] [29]
17December Sarah Morris Petrobas (Rio) [30]
182013May Mona Hatoum London: The World [31]
19DecemberImran QureshiAll Time Would Be Perpetual Spring [32]
202014May Rachel Whiteread The Hole of London 2014 [33] [34]
21December Daniel Buren From A Single One To Millions: Ink On Paper [35] [36]
222015May Pablo Bronstein Design for a magnificent London Underground Grand Pendulum in gilt bronze [37] [38]
232016January Tomma Abts Untitled [39]
24June Hew Locke Tunnel Vision [40] [41]
25December Gillian Carnegie Metropolitan Diamonds [42] [43]
262017June Lily van der Stokker Out Next Stop [44]
272018January Marc Camille Chaimowicz Untitled [45]
28May Geta Brătescu Game of Forms [46] [47]
29December Linder The Bower of Bliss [48] [49]
302019June Laure Prouvost You are deeper than what you think [50] [51]
31December Bedwyr Williams Morden [52] [53]
322020MayElisabeth WildFantasías [54] [55]
33December Phyllida Barlow helter skelter [56]
342021September Helen Cammock sit alongside and feel me breathe [57]
352022January Larry Achiampong What I Hear I Keep [4]
36MayJoy LabinjoTwist Out [58]
37November Do Ho Suh Routes/Roots: London [59]
382023May Sharon Hayes Come Out, Come Out [60]
39December Joy Gregory A Little Slice of Paradise [61]

Night Tube map covers

NoYearMonthArtistTitle
12016DecemberSamara ScottNight Tube Map Commission [62]
22017MayPio AbadEddie [63]
3December Marianna Simnett Wing-sleepers [64]
42018MayMarie JacoteyYou in my bedroom [65]
5December Jade Montserrat hand this piece to one Jacob Aston West (b. approx. 1941–43, Montserrat) [66] [67]

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