# List of public art in the London Borough of Islington

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

## Barnsbury

| Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation |
| Thornhill Road Gardens War Memorial | Thornhill Road Gardens, junction of Thornhill Road and Richmond Avenue 51°32′20″N 0°06′37″W﻿ / ﻿51.5389°N 0.1102°W﻿ / 51.5389; -0.1102﻿ (Thornhill Road Gardens War Memorial) | 1920 | ? | War memorial with Celtic cross | Grade II |
| Huntingdon Arms sculpture | 115 Hemingford Road (former Huntingdon Arms pub) 51°32′27″N 0°06′49″W﻿ / ﻿51.5409°N 0.1136°W﻿ / 51.5409; -0.1136﻿ (Huntingdon Arms sculpture) | | ? | Relief sculpture | — |
| Animal Park | Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens 51°32′07″N 0°07′02″W﻿ / ﻿51.5353°N 0.1171°W﻿ / 51.5353; -0.1171﻿ (Animal Park) | 2006 | Monica Shanta Brown | Mosaics | — |

## Canonbury

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Horizon | Canonbury Square, eastern section 51°32′37″N 0°06′00″W﻿ / ﻿51.5437°N 0.0999°W﻿ / 51.5437; -0.0999﻿ (Horizon) | 2019 | David Harber | Armillary sphere | — | |

## Clerkenwell

| Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| Justice, Mercy, Portrait of George III and other motifs | Middlesex Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green | 1779–1782 (building) | Joseph Nollekens | Relief sculptures | Grade II* | |
| Postal Workers' War Memorial Western Postal District | Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Farringdon Road 51°31′29″N 0°06′40″W﻿ / ﻿51.5246°N 0.1111°W﻿ / 51.5246; -0.1111﻿ (Postal Workers' War Memorial) | 1920 | ? | Aedicule | Grade II | Unveiled 1 January 1920 at Wimpole Street Post Office, Marylebone. After that post office's closure in 1981 the memorial moved to the delivery offices in Rathbone Place; when they in turn closed in 2013 it moved to its current site. |
| Edgerunner | Owens Field, Goswell Road 51°31′50.8″N 0°06′18″W﻿ / ﻿51.530778°N 0.10500°W﻿ / 51.530778; -0.10500﻿ (Edgerunner) | | Paul Neagu | Sculpture | | Unveiled 25 July 2012 |
| JJ Mack Building V2 memorial | JJ Mack Building, Charterhouse Street 51°31′07″N 0°06′19″W﻿ / ﻿51.51865°N 0.10520°W﻿ / 51.51865; -0.10520﻿ (JJ Mack Building V2 memorial) | | | Memorial | | Memorial to victims of the V-2 rocket attack on 8 March 1945. The circles represent a cross-section of a V-2 rocket and its internal piping. |

## Farringdon

| Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| Samson and Deliah | Greenhill Rents 51°31′11″N 0°06′10″W﻿ / ﻿51.5198°N 0.1027°W﻿ / 51.5198; -0.1027﻿ (Samson and Delilah) | ~1609–1610 | Peter Paul Rubens | Painting | — | Copy made for the National Gallery's "On Tour" exhibition in 2007. |
| Memorial to Edward Johnston | Farringdon station | 2017 | Fraser Muggeridge | Mural | — | Unveiled 24 June 2019. Giant reversed wooden letters in the typeface Johnston designed for the London Underground. |
| Avalanche | Farringdon station | 2018 | Simon Periton | Glazing motif | — | A sequence of large diamonds appearing to tumble down the escalator, alluding to the jewellers, goldsmiths and ironsmiths of nearby Hatton Garden. |
| Spectre | Farringdon station | 2018 | Simon Periton | Glazing motif | — | Based on a drawing by Christopher Dresser titled Force and Energy (c. 1867–1873), contemporary with Smithfield Market which is adjacent to the station. Periton's design also references the etched glass found in Victorian pubs. |

## Finsbury

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Science and Agriculture | City, University of London, College Building | 1894 c. 1894 – c. 1896 | Paul Raphael Montford | Frieze | Grade II | |
| More images | Finsbury War Memorial | Rosebery Avenue | 15 August 1921 | Thomas Rudge | War memorial with statue | Grade II | |
| More images | Faceted Column | Corner of Chiswell Street and Finsbury Pavement 51°31′13″N 0°05′15″W﻿ / ﻿51.5204°N 0.0875°W﻿ / 51.5204; -0.0875﻿ (Faceted Column) | 1999 | Stephen Cox | Sculpture | — | |
| | Memorial to the Moorgate tube crash | Finsbury Square | 2013 | ? | Memorial | — | Unveiled 28 July 2013. |
| | Mercury | Top of Triton Court, Finsbury Square | | ? | | | |
| | 2 figures of Triton the God | Triton Court, Finsbury Square | | | | | |
| | 4 females | Triton Court clock tower, Finsbury Square | | | | | |

## Finsbury Park

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| More images | Crossed pistols tile motif | Finsbury Park station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Tom Eckersley | | — | |
| | Balloon mosaics | Finsbury Park station, Piccadilly line platforms | 1983 | Annabel Grey | | — | |
| | Sustrans Portrait Bench | Outside Finsbury Park station 51°33′54″N 0°06′20″W﻿ / ﻿51.5649°N 0.1056°W﻿ / 51.5649; -0.1056﻿ (Sustrans Portrait Bench) | 2013 | ? | Sculpture | — | Depicts Jazzie B, Edith Garrud and Florence Keen. |
| | Gillespie Park triptych | Seven Sisters Road, by the entrance to Gillespie Park 51°33′50″N 0°06′21″W﻿ / ﻿51.5640°N 0.1058°W﻿ / 51.5640; -0.1058﻿ (Gilespie Park triptych) | 2013 | London School of Mosaic | Mosaic | — | Made with two local schools and approximately 20 volunteers; represents the flora and fauna of the park. Unveiled 2 December 2013. |
| | Elm Tree of Life | Finsbury Park station Wells Terrace entrance 51°33′55″N 0°06′27″W﻿ / ﻿51.5653°N 0.1076°W﻿ / 51.5653; -0.1076﻿ (Elm Tree of Life) | 2020 | Carrie Reichardt, Karen Francesca and ATM | Mosaic | — | Opened 22 October 2020. |
| | CIL Mosaic | City North Place, at junction with Goodwin Street 51°33′52″N 0°06′27″W﻿ / ﻿51.5645°N 0.1075°W﻿ / 51.5645; -0.1075﻿ (CIL Mosaic) | 2021 | Carrie Reichardt | Mosaic | — | Opened during the week of 20 September 2021. Commissioned by the Business Design Centre Group (BDCG) to honour Sam Morris, founder of BDCG and City Industrial Limited (CIL). |

## Highbury

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation |
| More images | Boer War Memorial | Highbury Fields | 1905 | Bertram Mackennal | War memorial with statue | Grade II |
| | Statue of Francis Bacon | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II |
| | Statue of Edmund Spenser | Islington Central Library, Holloway Road | 1906 | Frederick Schenck | Statue in niche | Grade II |
| | The Neighbours | Highbury Quadrant Estate 51°33′31″N 0°05′37″W﻿ / ﻿51.5585°N 0.0936°W﻿ / 51.5585; -0.0936 | 1957 | Siegfried Charoux | Sculptural group | Grade II |
| More images | Highbury Manor tile motif | Highbury & Islington station, Victoria line platforms | 1968 | Edward Bawden | | — |

## Highgate

    Highgate is partly located outside the borough of Islington; for works not listed here see the relevant sections for the boroughs of Camden and Haringey.
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | St Aloysius' College War Memorial | Hornsey Lane 51°34′13″N 0°08′20″W﻿ / ﻿51.5703°N 0.1388°W﻿ / 51.5703; -0.1388﻿ (St Aloysius' College War Memorial) | after 1918 | ? | Canopied calvary with relief | Grade II | The Carrara marble relief shows the Crucifixion with the Three Maries at the foot of the Cross. |
| More images | Dick Whittington's cat | Whittington Stone, Highgate Hill 51°33′59″N 0°08′13″W﻿ / ﻿51.5665°N 0.1369°W﻿ / 51.5665; -0.1369 | 1964 | Jonathan Kenworthy | Sculpture | Grade II | |

## Holloway

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Prayer of Peace | Elthorne Park, Upper Holloway | 1986 | Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede | Sculpture | — | |
| More images | Statue of Tony Adams | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 9 December 2011. |
| More images | Statue of Herbert Chapman | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 9 December 2011. |
| More images | Statue of Thierry Henry | Emirates Stadium | 2011 | Margot Roulleau-Gallais | Statue | — | Unveiled 9 December 2011. |
| More images | Statue of Dennis Bergkamp | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 22 February 2014. |
| More images | Statue of Ken Friar | Emirates Stadium | 2014 | MDM | Statue | — | Unveiled 28 February 2014. |
| | Memorial to Windrush and Commonwealth NHS nurses and midwives | Whittington Hospital | 2021 | ? | Sculpture | — | Unveiled 10 September 2021. |
| | Statue of Arsène Wenger | Emirates Stadium | 2023 | Jim Guy | Statue | — | Unveiled 28 July 2023. |
| | Whittington Cat | Whittington Hospital | ? | Art Contact | Architectural sculpture | — | A parallax sculpture which appears to assemble or disassemble depending on where the viewer stands. |

## Newington Green

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft | Newington Green 51°33′05″N 0°05′06″W﻿ / ﻿51.5515°N 0.0851°W﻿ / 51.5515; -0.0851﻿ (A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft) | 2020 | Maggi Hambling | Sculpture | — | Unveiled 10 November 2020. |

## Pentonville

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | War memorial at St Silas's Church | Risinghill Street 51°32′01″N 0°06′42″W﻿ / ﻿51.5335°N 0.1117°W﻿ / 51.5335; -0.1117﻿ (War memorial at St Silas's Church) | 1917 | Arthur George Walker | Memorial cross | Grade II | |
| | An Invitation to Dance on the Grave... Grimaldi/Dibdin | Joseph Grimaldi Park | 2010 | Henry Louis Krokatsis | Sculpture | — | Two coffin shapes set into the ground, with bronze tiles which play the tune "Hot Codlins" when they are danced upon. |

## St Luke's

| Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| Christ Healing the Blind Man | Moorfields Eye Hospital, King George V Extension | 1933–1935 (building) | Eric Gill | Relief sculpture | | |
| Opening the Lock Gate | Outside 250 City Road, opposite City Road Basin 51°31′46″N 0°05′48″W﻿ / ﻿51.52936°N 0.09666°W﻿ / 51.52936; -0.09666﻿ (Opening the Lock Gate) | 2020 | Ian Rank-Broadley | Sculptural group | — | Unveiled March 2020. Marks the bicentenary of the Regent's Canal. This and the two sculptures unveiled in 2024 were commissioned in February 2018. |
| Lady and Rope | Public courtyard at 250 City Road 51°31′44″N 0°05′46″W﻿ / ﻿51.52888°N 0.09622°W﻿ / 51.52888; -0.09622﻿ (Lady and Rope) | 2024 | Ian Rank-Broadley | Sculpture | — | |
| Man Leading Horse | Public courtyard at 250 City Road 51°31′44″N 0°05′45″W﻿ / ﻿51.52886°N 0.09596°W﻿ / 51.52886; -0.09596﻿ (Man Leading Horse) | 2024 | Ian Rank-Broadley | Sculpture | — | |

## St Mary's

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Frieze from Hall of Commerce, probably untitled, known as Commerce Welcoming All Nations and The Benefice of Commerce | Battishill Street Gardens, Napier Terrace. Originally in Edward Moxhay's Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle Street, demolished 1922. 51°32′23″N 0°06′15″W﻿ / ﻿51.539821°N 0.104189°W﻿ / 51.539821; -0.104189 | 1842 1975 (unveiled on present site) | Musgrave Watson | Sculpted frieze | — | Frieze relocated for garden opening in 1975. |
| | Sculpture of hen with chicks | Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar, 109 St Paul's Road 51°32′46″N 0°06′07″W﻿ / ﻿51.5461°N 0.1020°W﻿ / 51.5461; -0.1020 | 1854 | ? | Relief sculpture | — | |
| | Sculpture of hounds chasing hare | 181 Upper Street (formerly the Hare and Hounds pub) 51°32′32″N 0°06′11″W﻿ / ﻿51.5421°N 0.1031°W﻿ / 51.5421; -0.1031 | 1856 c. 1856 | ? | Relief sculpture | — | |
| More images | Statue of Hugh Myddelton | Islington Green 51°32′09″N 0°06′13″W﻿ / ﻿51.5357°N 0.1036°W﻿ / 51.5357; -0.1036 | 1862 | John Thomas | Statue | Grade II | |
| | Sculpture of three wheatsheaves | 56 Upper Street (formerly the Three Wheatsheaves pub) 51°32′08″N 0°06′15″W﻿ / ﻿51.5355°N 0.1042°W﻿ / 51.5355; -0.1042 | 1864 c. 1864 | ? | Relief sculpture | — | |
| | Four caryatids | 116–118 Upper Street (formerly the Northern District Post Office) 51°32′18″N 0°06′09″W﻿ / ﻿51.5384°N 0.1025°W﻿ / 51.5384; -0.1025﻿ (Four caryatids) | 1906 c. 1906 | ? | Statues | Grade II | |
| | Female figure | 75 and 75A Upper Street (originally the entrance to the Electric Theatre cinema, 1908–1916) 51°32′11″N 0°06′13″W﻿ / ﻿51.5364°N 0.1037°W﻿ / 51.5364; -0.1037 | 1908 | ? | Statue on dome | Grade II | The figure originally held an electric lighted globe. |
| | Memorial to Thomas Paine | Angel Court, Owen Street | 1991 | Kevin Jordan | Obelisk | — | |
| | Angel | Angel tube station | 1996 | Kevin Boys | Statue | — | |
| | Angel on the Green | Anderson Square garden 51°32′12″N 0°06′09″W﻿ / ﻿51.5366°N 0.1026°W﻿ / 51.5366; -0.1026﻿ (Angel on the Green) | 1999 | John Roberts | Statue | — | Unveiled 6 September 1999. |
| More images | Angel Wings | N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | — | |
| | Halo | N1 Retail Plaza, The Angel, Islington | 2003 | Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron | Sculpture | — | |
| | Islington Green War Memorial | Islington Green | 2004 (replacing an earlier "temporary" war memorial) | John Maine | War memorial | — | |
| | Street Cat Bob | Islington Green 51°32′11″N 0°06′09″W﻿ / ﻿51.5363°N 0.1026°W﻿ / 51.5363; -0.1026 | 2021 | Tanya Russell | Bronze sculpture | — | Unveiled 15 July 2021. |
| | Sculpture of Old Parr's head, plus other designs | 66 Cross Street / 290 Upper Street (formerly the Old Parr's Head pub) 51°32′23″N 0°06′08″W﻿ / ﻿51.5396°N 0.1023°W﻿ / 51.5396; -0.1023 | | ? | Relief sculptures | — | |

## Shoreditch

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
| More images | Statue of John Wesley | Wesley's Chapel, City Road 51°31′25″N 0°05′14″W﻿ / ﻿51.5237°N 0.0872°W﻿ / 51.5237; -0.0872 | 1891 | John Adams-Acton | Statue | Grade II | |