Skyline Sculpture

Antony Gornley has managed to get permission to install thirty sculptures of himself perched on rooftops across London. Each likeness faces his exhibiton at the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank.


To my mind they are magnificent additions to the London skyline and visible from a surprising distance. I spotted a couple while travelling along the Embankment on Sunday afternoon and was wowed by thier pose and elegance.

I had a powerful urge to go and stand alongside them, as though they had some pied-piper type power drawing me towards them (though this may well have had something to do with the couple of sherries I had enjoyed at the magnificent El Faro in Limehouse).

I think it's wonderful that this can happen accross so many sites in London as does Mr Gormley...

"it's a tribute to everybody that I've been allowed to get away with it. I feel so grateful to all the people who said, 'Why not?' That attitude - 'Let's do it' — seems to be possible in Britain at the moment"

You can see them for yourself at the following locations…

80 The Strand,
Arundel Great Court,
Brettenham House,
Bush House,
The Howard Hotel,
Thistle Hotel,
Waterloo Bridge (Westminster side)
Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward at the Southbank Centre,
Southbank Centre Square,
Union Jack Club,
White House Apartments at the Shell Centre,
Waterloo Bridge (Lambeth side),
The National Theatre,
King's College London - Franklin-Wilkins Building and the Waterloo Bridge Annexe,
The London Television Centre
United Grand Lodge of England