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03/09/2020

Have you seen our poster campaign? Currently displayed at Embankment, Gloucester Road, Charing Cross and White City! 👀
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The campaign celebrates the artworks we have brought to the network over the last 20 years and the people they have meant something to. 🎨
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Designed by , it explores the rich artistic legacy on which Art on the Underground builds. ✨
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We asked customers, TfL staff and our collaborators to pick their favourite artwork from the history of the programme and explain what makes it meaningful to them. Their stories have been brought together with the artworks, portraits by , and a new visual iconography created by Praline inspired by research in the London Transport Museum Archive. 🚂
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During this time of transition we feel our poster campaign acts as a reminder of the power of public art. Thank you to everyone who makes our work possible! ✨
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📸 Ⓒ Sara Esteves designbypraline
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01/09/2020

The first comprehensive monograph on Heather Phillipson is here!💥
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Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipson’s work is at the forefront of contemporary practice. This publication traces the breadth of Phillipson’s projects across video, sculpture, installation, music poetry and digital media, including her most recent work, the 13th Fourth Plinth commission. ‘THE END’ is a digital and sculptural installation, ‘a suggestive heap, a skidding anarchy of significances’ as described by Esther Leslie in her newly commissioned essay for the publication.💥
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See above spreads from the publication, designed by Pony Ltd, of ‘THE END’ in the making!💥
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‘Heather Phillipson’ is available to buy through the link in our bio.👆
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27/08/2020

‘You are deeper than what you think’ by Laure Prouvost 🔍 can still be seen at Heathrow T4, Bethnal Green, Notting Hill, Stratford!
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Prouvost’s major installations at Heathrow and Stratford stations bookend the project from east to west London. Her installation at Stratford, ‘ideally these words would pause everything now’ a 20 metre sign that formerly addressed the millions of passengers who commuted through Stratford station each day, now feels particularly poignant.
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‘You are deeper than what you think’, acts as a reminder that there is more inside all of us than we might initially think. 🔎✨
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1: Laure Prouvost, ‘You are deeper than what you think’, Stratford station, 2019.
2: Heathrow T4, 2019. Photos by
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25/08/2020

Brixton Mural Map 🗺 free download - available now! 👆
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Our Mural Map celebrates Brixton’s murals and shares the stories behind them, making these overlooked public artworks more visible. A free downloadable copy is available our website. Link in bio. 🔎
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During the 1970s and 80s, London became an important centre for mural production. Murals from this period represent the political climate, social context and communities who collaboratively made them. These qualities define the murals that populate Brixton today. However, as London is further developed, many murals are being damaged or destroyed. The surviving murals reveal the rapid change London has undergone in the past few decades, but they have not received the same recognition, protection and conservation as other public artworks or heritage sites in the city.
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Pictured:
1: Brixton Mural Map, 2018. 📸 Benedict Johnson
2: Children at Play, 1981-1982, Stephen Pusey, Brixton Academy, Stockwell Park Walk, SW9 📸 , 2018
3: Big Splash, 1985, Christine Thomas, Diana Leary, Dave Bangs and local residents, Strathleven Road & Glenelg Road, SW2 📸 , 2018
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@ Underground-Brixton

21/08/2020

: ‘THE END’ by Heather Phillipson🍦🍒🦟 The 13th Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square.
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Unveiled at the end of July, ‘THE END’ is a vast sculpture and digital artwork which tops the Fourth Plinth in a swirl of cream, a cherry, a fly and drone which transmits a live feed of the view from the plinth. Measuring 9.4m high and weighing 9 tonnes, ‘THE END’ reflects on Trafalgar Square as a site of protest and celebration, and in the words of Heather Phillipson, transforms the plinth into a ‘monument to hubris and impending collapse’.
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‘THE END’ is on view in Trafalgar Square until 2022. As a counterpoint in tone to ‘THE END’, Art on the Underground commissioned an audio-artwork by Heather Phillipson, ‘VOLTA’, which reflects on renewal and possibility. Listen to ‘VOLTA’ on our website through the link in our bio 🔝 or on theend.today where you can also watch the live drone feed from ‘THE END’.
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will be a weekly series from the Art on the Underground team. We will be sharing the exhibitions, installations, interviews, articles, and podcasts (and much more besides!) that we have been enjoying. Keep your eyes peeled for weekly updates. 👀
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20/08/2020

‘The Bower of Bliss’ by Linder is still on view at Southwark station! 🌹
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The work, the first large-scale public commission by Linder in London, consists of an ‪85 metre long street‬-level billboard at Southwark station.✨
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‘The Bower of Bliss’ manifests at Southwark station in the histories, myths and fables of the many women Linder uncovered during her residency in Southwark. From Londinium s*x workers in AD 43; to an 1815 illustration of the Night Queen from Mozart’s opera ‘The Magic Flute’ inspiration for the station architects; to the women who run London Underground today, Linder’s photomontage reclaims the representation of women from the male gaze to form a picture of empowerment for women everywhere. 👊💥
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Swipe to see how TfL archive images of women in transport, found during Linder’s research, made it into the final artwork.👩‍✈️👀
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Image 1: ‘The Bower of Bliss’, 2018, Southwark Station. 📸:
Image 2: ‘Seeing it through; station woman, by Eric Henri Kennington, 1944. archive
Image 3: Bus conductor Agatha Claudette Hart, by Dr Heinz Zinram, 1962. archive
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Image 5: Young black woman, new applicant for job at Westbourne Park garage, sitting in cab of midibus by Julia Spiegl, Jan 1988 - May 1989 archive.
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@ Southwark tube station

19/08/2020

‘my name is lettie eggsyrub’, Heather Phillipson, Gloucester Road station, 2018. 💥🍳
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As Heather Phillipson’s Fourth Plinth commission, ‘THE END’ stands proud in Trafalgar Square following it’s launch at the end of July, we have been reminiscing about her Art on the Underground commission at Gloucester Road in 2018. Swipe for behind the scenes production shots! 👉
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For her first public UK commission, Heather Phillipson filled the 80 metre disused platform at Gloucester Road with an ambitious sculptural and video installation. Relationships between human and non-human animals are a recurring theme in her work and for this commission she focused on the egg as an object of reproduction, subject to human interference.
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🍳’THE END’ will be on view in Trafalgar Square until 2022. Listen to ‘VOLTA’, Phillipson’s audio-collage commissioned by Art on the Underground to accompany ‘THE END’, through the link in our bio.🔝🍳
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📸 of Artwork in situ: , 2018
📸 of behind the scenes production: ,2018
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@ Gloucester Road Tube Station

14/08/2020

✨The brilliant are launching HATO GUIDES, a scheme which connects students with industry professionals such as Art on the Underground Curator, via one-on-one Zoom sessions. ✨
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Sign up for your chance to have your portfolio reviewed by an industry professional for free. 😱 The sessions will be released on a first come first served basis so don’t miss out! You will have the opportunity to ask your HATO GUIDE for advice and guidance, and have your portfolio reviewed in a 30 minute video call.
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Follow the link in ‘s bio to sign up. Slots will be announced via email soon. Don’t miss out! 👆👈
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13/08/2020

‘The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization’, — download the introduction for free on our website.
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‘The Image of Whiteness’ introduces readers to important extracts from the troubling story of whiteness, describing its falsehoods, its paradoxes and its oppressive nature, and highlights some of the crucial work contemporary photographic artists are doing to subvert and critique its image and its continuing power. 📸
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The Image of Whiteness edited by Daniel C. Blight was co-published by and Art on the Underground in 2019. The book grew out of a symposium organised by Daniel C. Blight and Art on the Underground in 2017, which explored the workings of race and white privilege in contemporary culture. This symposium which took its title from Linda Martín Alcoff’s essay, ‘What Should White People Do?’, was the beginning of a conversation about who gets represented and who gets to decide.
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Download the introduction for free and purchase the book on our website. Link in bio.🔝
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12/08/2020

✨’Clay station’, the kiosk at Seven Sisters station by and ceramicist matthew raw has reopened! ✨
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The Coffee Run () are serving their delicious coffee once again! ☕️ Check their social channels for opening times and why not stop by?
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‘Clay station’ builds on London Underground’s rich heritage of ceramics, the hand-made tiles that cover the kiosk were produced as part of the refurbishment and remodelling of a commercial unit at the entrance to the Seven Sisters Underground station which had lain empty for more than a decade.
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Assemble & Matthew Raw, ‘Clay Station’, 2017, Seven Sisters. 📸 by Archard, July 2019
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@ Underground-Seven Sisters

10/08/2020

TfL Go app is now live - featuring ‘Wrapper’ by Jacqueline Poncelet!⚡️
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The new TfL Go app, which helps Londoners plan their journeys, features Jacqueline Poncelet’s permanent artwork at Edgware Road station on its launch screen. ⚡️
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The app, available on iOS devices with an Android version launching in the autumn, provides live journey information, including easy-to-navigate ‘step-free’ options, as well as walking and cycling options. ⚡️
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‘Wrapper’ by Jacqueline Poncelet was commissioned by Art on the Underground in 2012. The permanent artwork, created in vitreous enamel, dresses the Circle Line entrance at Edgware Road in a grid of patterns. ⚡️
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Download TfL Go on the App Store and through the link in our bio. 👉🚇
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Read more about ‘Wrapper’ by Jacqueline Poncelet through the link in the app and in our bio.👆
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06/08/2020

💥The first monograph on the work of Heather Phillipson – available now!💥
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‘Heather Phillipson’ is edited by and Heather Phillipson. With contributions from , ,
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The book features Phillipson’s writing and poetry as well as three newly-commissioned essays by writer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris, the experimental London-based writer Charlie Fox, and Professor Chus Martinez.
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Published by in association with Art on the Underground, Fourth Plinth,
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💥Available to purchase on our website. Link in bio. And while you’re there, listen to Phillipson’s new audio-collage, ‘VOLTA’. 💥
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