Estate Art
Full Stops
Fiona Banner’s glistening black and bold ‘Full Stop’ sculptures are positioned around the spacious public plaza on the More London riverfront with Tower Bridge as a contrasting backdrop. Each sculpture invites close inspection and the five separate Full Stops have become a major draw to visitors with their particularly tactile surfaces. Each form is an accurate 3D, vastly enlarged version of a full stop from a variety of commonly used typefaces, which lend their names and titles for each sculpture – ‘Slipstream’, ‘Optical’, ‘Courier’, ‘Klang’ and ‘Nuptail’ - all cast in bronze and coated in shiny black paint, the same appropriately as that of London Taxis, giving a highly reflective surface that mirrors the surrounding buildings and reflects light and water.
The Navigators
David Kemp's The Navigators has been in Hay's Galleria since 1986. Inspired by the historic wharf, stories of maritime commerce and Victorian adventures & sea-voyages; Kemp combined Gothic fantasy, sea monsters, man & machine in the sculpture. The 60-foot sculpture was installed during the renovation of Hay’s Galleria and when activated, its oars move through the water at its sides. Following the tradition of tossing coins into fountains, the money collected from the Navigators waters is donated to London Bridge City's chosen charity partner.