Bus Art: Year of the Bus Sculpture Trails - Around Westminster

Bus Art: Year of the Bus Sculpture Trails - Around Westminster is one of four trails part of the Year of the Bus event. The trail starts off in Covent Garden and then proceeding to work off further into central London passing through many famous sites such as Horse Guards Parade, House of Parliament and Westminster Cathedral. The trail ends at Edgeware Road which the best option would be to take the Tube which takes about 12 minutes or the bus for about 25 minutes. There are 17 bus sculptures for this trail: 


1. Accessibus. Artist: Liliana Ortega Garza. Location: London Transport Museum. 



2. Busby. Artist: Oliver Dean. Location: London Transport Musem.

3. Poppy Fields. Artist: Sarah Jane Grace. Location: Covent Garden.

4. Travels with Edward. Artist: Valerie Osment. Location: Edward Stanford Shop.

5. Swinging London. Artist: Sian Storey. Location: St Martins Close. *

6. Rock n Royal. Artist: Damien Jeffrey. Location: Leicester Square.

7. Cath Kidston London Scene. Artist: Cath Kidston. Location: Piccadilly Circus.

8. London Skyline Bus. Artist: Kristjana S WIlliams. Location: Charing Cross Road.

9. 360° Panorama of London. Artist: Rob Wilson. Location: Trafalgar Square.

10. Lest We Forget. Artist: Lee O’Brien. Location: Horse Guards Avenue.

11. London Telephone Bus. Artist: Stephen Mackay. Location: Parliament Street.

12. London Take the Bus. Artist: Rod Hunt. Location: Victoria Street.

13. Buckingham Palace Bus. Artist: Mandii Pope. Location: Victoria Street.

14. Gull Graeni Straeto. Artist: Kristjana S Williams. Location: Victoria Street.

15. Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster. Artist: Jenny Leonard. Location: Victoria Street.

16. Tunnel Vision. Artist: One Red Shoe. Location: Cardinal Place.

17. Come Rain or Come Shine. Artist: Thomas Dowdeswell. Location: Edgeware Road.

* Location is at St Martins Court.

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Bus Art: Year of the Bus Sculpture Trails - Around the River

Bus Art: Year of the Bus Sculpture Trails - Around the River is part of four trails making up the Year of the Bus event. The trail goes through some bridges, monuments and museums with some being Borough Market, Shakespeare’s Globe, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Tower of London. The trail allows opportunities to explore the culture of London and sights by the banks of River Thames. There are in total 13 bus sculptures on this trail:

1. Dazzle Bus. Artist: Stephen McKay. Location: London Bridge City Pier.

2. Spectrum. Artist: Kristel Pillkahn. Location: Glaciers Hall.

3. Orla Kiely. Artist: Sarah Jane Richards. Location: St Mary Overie's Dock.

4. Route Masters. Artist: Edward Carvalho-Monaghan. Location: Bankside.

5. Brollybus. Artist: Jane Veveris Callan. Location: Bankside.

6. New Routemaster. Artist: Candida Boyes. Location: Blackfriars Road.

7. Legible London. Artist: Fiona Stewart. Location: Blackfriars Road.

8. Punk' ed. Artist: Valerie Osment. Location: St Paul's Cathedral.

9. Childhood on a bus. Artist: Arizona Smith (ambassador for Kids Company). Location: Friday Street.

10. Push Once. Artist: Mini Moderns, painted by Sophie Green. Location: Cheapside.

11. All Aboard the Number 8. Artist: Anna Rawles and Jennifer Rodgers. Location: Threadneedle Street.

12. Tower Bridge Bus. Artist: Michelle Heron. Location: Old Billingsgate - Thames Path.

13. Twenty Four Seven. Artist: Deven Bhurke. Location: Gloucester Close.

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Bus Art: Year of the Bus Sculpture Trails

Year of the Bus Sculpture Trails is a trail of statues dotted around London to commemorate the 2014 Year of the Bus event this year in partnership with Wild in Art and Transport for London. They were designed by different artists depicting different aspects of London through the connections of London buses. The sculpture trails were launched on 20th October 2014 with the exception of the Croydon Trail which was launched in December 2014. The bus sculptures are to be auctioned off in early 2015 to raise funds for 3 charities: Kids Company, Transaid and London Transport Museum. 

You can find my posts here:

• Around Westminster
• Around the River
• Around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
• Around Croydon

Check out my post on LEGO Bus Stop which was also part of the 2014 Year of the Bus event.

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Sculpture in the City 2014

Sculpture in the City is a trail following a showcase of contemporary artists’ works dotted in the City of London. The artwork changes on a yearly basis with new works installed around the summer period.

This year’s artworks are as follow:

1. Secret Affair (Silver) – Jim Lambie. Location: St Botolph-without-Bishopgate Gardens.

2. Stairs – Lynn Chadwick. Location: Bishopsgate & Wormwood Street.

3. Deadly Nightshade – Julian Wild. Location: 15 Bishopsgate, opposite Great St Helen’s.

4. Flow; Edge; Flux; Within; Fall; - Paul Hosking. Location: St Helen’s Bishopsgate Churchyard.

5. Salvia – Julian Wild. Location: Undershaft.

6. Shapes in the Clouds I, IV, V – Peter Randall-Page. Location: Bury Court.

7. Box sized DIE featuring Unfathomable Ruination – João Onofre. Location: 30 St Mary Axe (Gherkin).

The artwork was not present in December 2014.
8. Work Scaffolding Sculpture – Ben Long. Location: 30 St Mary Axe (Gherkin).

9. High Wind IV – Lynn Chadwick. Location: 30 St Mary Axe (Gherkin).

10. Southern Shade I; Southern Shade V – Nigel Hall. Location: Lime Street, outside Willis.

11. Kiss – Nigel Hall. Location: Fenchurch Avenue, outside Willis.

12. False Ceiling – Richard Wentworth. Location: Leadenhall Market.

13. Time here becomes Space, Space here becomes Time – Cerith Wyn Evans. Location: Leadenhall Market.

Was a piece in Sculpture in the City 2013 as well. Removed in October 2014.
14. Parallel Field – Antony Gormley. Location: St Mary Axe.

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X-Men Experience

X-Men Experience is an exhibit and experience held in the Sky Studios at the O2. It was to coincide with the release of the X-Men Days of Future Past. It was on 28^th October to 17^th November 2014.

They had on display of costumes of Warpath, Magneto, Storm, Iceman, Wolverine and Quicksilver. They also had Cyclops’s visor and Professor X’s wheelchair. There was an. Augmented X-Men Experience where people were projected on to a screen through a live feed camera which showed off moves from Storm's lightning powers, Magneto's powers and Wolverine's claws. The present day Sentinel was on display until the 3rd November 2014 but I was much too late to capture it.

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