List of public art in the London Borough of Hackney

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

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Map of public art in the London Borough of Hackney

Dalston

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Shacklewell Green War Memorial.jpg Shacklewell Green War MemorialShacklewell Lane

51°33′11″N0°04′11″W / 51.5531°N 0.0697°W / 51.5531; -0.0697 (Shacklewell Green War Memorial) 		1920 ?War memorial Grade II [1]
Rudimental wuz 'ere.jpg Hackney Peace Carnival Mural13 Dalston Lane1985Mick Jones and Ann Walker after Ray Walker Mural— [2]

Hackney Central

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
The Nelsons drinking fountain next to St Thomas Square (geograph 4015171 cropped).jpg Esther Nelson Memorial Drinking FountainSt Thomas's Square

51°32′31″N0°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. [3]
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″N0°03′17″W / 51.5476°N 0.0546°W / 51.5476; -0.0546 (Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae)) 		2021 Veronica Ryan Sculptures—Unveiled 1 October 2021. The three sculptures represent Caribbean fruits and vegetables, in reference to the nearby Ridley Road Market. [4] [5]
Warm Shores artwork by Thomas J Price.jpg Warm ShoresOutside Hackney Town Hall 2022 Thomas J. Price Statues—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. [6]

Hackney Downs

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Hackney Mosaic, The Downs, Clapton.jpg MosaicsHackney Downs Pavilion2014 Hackney Mosaic Project Mosaics— [7] [8]

Hackney Marshes

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Water Jugglers artwork, Hackney Marshes 2022-03-19.jpg Water Jugglers Hackney Marshes

51°33′22″N0°02′08″W / 51.5560°N 0.0356°W / 51.5560; -0.0356 		2004Peter DunnSculpture— [9]

Hackney Wick

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Crucifixion and war memorial, St Mary of Eton, Hackney Wick E9.jpg War memorial St Mary of Eton After 1918 ?Crucifix [10]
Granite Boulder Hackney Wick.jpg Boulder Mabley Green

51°32′56″N0°01′57″W / 51.5490°N 0.0326°W / 51.5490; -0.0326 		2008John FranklandSculpture— [11] [12]

Haggerston

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Haggerston All Saints War Memorial.jpg War memorial All Saints' churchyard, Livermere Road

51°32′21″N0°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 [13]
Stonebridge Common War Memorial.jpg Haggerston Road School War MemorialStonebridge Common, at the junction of Haggerston Road and Mayfield Road

51°32′24″N0°04′29″W / 51.5399°N 0.07466°W / 51.5399; -0.07466 (Haggerston Road School War Memorial) 		1921 ?Obelisk—The school was demolished in the 1930s. [14]
Haggerston interior1.jpg The Elliptical Switchback Haggerston railway station 2010 Tod Hanson Ceramic mural—Commemorates the astronomer Edmond Halley, who was born in Haggerston. [15] The first permanent artwork commissioned by the London Overground. [16]

Homerton

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Homerton War Memorial.jpg Homerton War MemorialSt Barnabas' churchyard, facing Homerton High Street

51°32′55″N0°02′33″W / 51.5487°N 0.0426°W / 51.5487; -0.0426 (Homerton War Memorial) 		1919 ?Celtic cross Grade II [17]

Hoxton

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
NLR War Memorial rededication panel portrait.jpg
More images 		North London Railway War Memorial Hoxton railway station

51°31′53″N0°04′33″W / 51.5315°N 0.0758°W / 51.5315; -0.0758 (North London Railway War Memorial) 		1921 Reginald 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. [18]
Juggling Figure by Simon Stringer, Hoxton.jpg Juggling FigureHoxton Market1994Simon StringerStatue— [19]
Dripping Flowers71 Fanshaw Street

51°31′48″N0°04′49″W / 51.5300°N 0.0804°W / 51.5300; -0.0804 (Dripping Flowers) 		2019NeroneMural— [20] [21]
Stik in Hoxton Square.jpg Holding Hands Hoxton Square 2020 Stik Sculpture— [22]

Lea Bridge

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve, 'Nature's Throne' view 1.jpg
More images 		Nature's ThroneMiddlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve

51°33′41″N0°02′38″W / 51.56125°N 0.04385°W / 51.56125; -0.04385 		1990Paula HaughneySculpture—Made of granite blocks from a former engine house [23] [24]
'Friendship Tree' by Joel Parkes and Southwold Primary School Pupils, Millfields Park (39445160804).jpg Friendship TreeMillfields

51°33′48″N0°02′52″W / 51.56332°N 0.04768°W / 51.56332; -0.04768 		2008Joel Parkes and pupils of Southwold Primary SchoolSculpture— [25]

London Fields

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
London fields flower sellers 1.jpg Flower SellersSouthern end of London Fields park

51°32′18″N0°03′36″W / 51.5382°N 0.0600°W / 51.5382; -0.0600 (Flower Sellers) 		1988Freeform Arts TrustMosaic sculpture—Restored in 2018. [26] [27]

Shoreditch

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Drinking fountain at junction of Paul Street and Tabernacle Street, Hackney - viewed from west.jpg Drinking fountainGreat Eastern Street, at the junction of Paul Street and Tabernacle Street

51°31′33″N0°05′02″W / 51.5259°N 0.0839°W / 51.5259; -0.0839 (Drinking fountain) 		1880A. NicholsonColumnar drinking fountain Grade II [28]
Statue of Robert Geffrye, Museum of the Home.jpg
More images 		Statue of Robert Geffrye Museum of the Home, Kingsland Road

51°31′54″N0°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 [29] [30]
The war memorial, St John-at-Hackney (geograph 4251871 cropped).jpg
More images 		Hackney War MemorialChurchyard of St John-at-Hackney

51°32′59″N0°03′13″W / 51.5497°N 0.0536°W / 51.5497; -0.0536 (Hackney War Memorial) 		1921 Joseph Hermon Cawthra Pillar/obelisk with sculpture Grade II [31] [32]
Hitchcock's Reel.JPG Hitchcock's Reel Shoreditch Park (formerly Leonard Street / St Paul Street)1996John EdwardsSculpture— [33]
Alfred Hitchcock sculpture, Gainsborough Studios, London, 2007.jpg Master of Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock 		Gainsborough Studios, Poole Street

51°32′09″N0°05′19″W / 51.5359°N 0.0887°W / 51.5359; -0.0887 		2001Anthony DonaldsonSculpture— [34]
Eine (4385070477).jpg ScaryRivington Street, under railway bridge

51°31′35″N0°04′43″W / 51.5263°N 0.0787°W / 51.5263; -0.0787 (Scary) 		2007 Ben Eine Street art—Repainted 2019. [35]
Shoreditch Park. The Boulder with Construction site, N1.jpg Boulder Shoreditch Park

51°32′04″N0°05′12″W / 51.5345°N 0.0867°W / 51.5345; -0.0867 (Boulder) 		2008John FranklandSculpture— [11] [12]
Ramp to Queensbridge Road from Regents Canal, London E2 - geograph.org.uk - 1386703.jpg Queensbridge SculptureQueensbridge Road/Regent's Canal

51°32′10″N0°04′12″W / 51.5360°N 0.0701°W / 51.5360; -0.0701 (Queensbridge Sculpture) 		Joel ParkesSculpture— [36]
Don't shoot Bambi.jpg Don't ShootRivington Street, west of East London Line viaduct

51°31′34″N0°04′44″W / 51.5262°N 0.0789°W / 51.5262; -0.0789 (Don't Shoot) 		2014 Bambi Stencil— [37]
The Restless Course clock, Shoreditch, London.jpg The Restless CourseCorner of Scrutton Street and Clifton Street

51°31′24″N0°04′59″W / 51.5233°N 0.08298°W / 51.5233; -0.08298 (The Restless Course) 		2018Pritchard ThemisClock— [38] [39]

South Hackney

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
St John of Jerusalem Church War Memorial, Hackney 04.jpg
More images 		War memorialChurchyard of St John of Jerusalem's Church, Lauriston Road

51°32′25″N0°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. [40]

Stoke Newington

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates		DateArtist / designerTypeDesignationNotes
Abney park watts.jpg
More images 		Statue of Isaac Watts Abney Park Cemetery

51°33′49″N0°04′39″W / 51.5637°N 0.0774°W / 51.5637; -0.0774 (Statue of Isaac Watts) 		1845 Edward Hodges Baily Statue Grade II [41]
St Mary, Church Street, Stoke Newington - War Memorial (geograph 4398899).jpg War memorialChurchyard of St Mary's New Church

51°33′39″N0°05′05″W / 51.5609°N 0.0848°W / 51.5609; -0.0848 (War memorial at St Mary's New Church) 		1920 Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott Memorial cross Grade II Unveiled 11 October 1920. [42]
Bust of Edgar Allan Poe, Stoke Newington, London.jpg Bust of Edgar Allan Poe Stoke Newington Church Street2011Ralph PerrottBust— [43]
Clissold Park London - panoramio (cropped).jpg Tree sculpture Clissold Park

51°33′32″N0°05′23″W / 51.55899°N 0.08968°W / 51.55899; -0.08968 		—

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