The Line: an outdoor sculpture trail in East London
Date uploaded: February 19, 2014
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is part of a trio of visionaries who want to publicly exhibit outdoor sculptures that are currently languishing in museums and private collections all over the country; in a riverside trail across the East End.
Megan Piper, a young art dealer, has been working with Clive Dutton, an urban-regeneration expert, on a very simple but brilliant idea to create London's first sculpture trail. Subject to raising the necessary funding, The Line will open this summer.
The Line will provide the opportunity to release existing works that are currently unseen, and by so doing create a three-mile sculpture walk in east London connecting the O2 on the Greenwich Peninsula with the Olympic Park in Stratford.
The plan is to site 30 world-class sculptures as stepping-stones between these two sites of urban transformation. The Line runs through an area that was once the centre of London's industrial revolution and the main shipbuilding centre in southern England. It opens up a fresh new perspective on London. The canals and waterways offer up secrets that are unavailable to road users. They give a sense of uplift and discovery. Around every bend you are met with another facet of the fast-changing cityscape.
The route of the walk broadly follows the Greenwich Meridian, hence the project is called The Line. There is also an appreciative nod to the High Line in New York that has done so much to transform how people view Manhattan.
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