Tyburn Quay, Victoria Embankment, Tideway, London
Tyburn Quay, Victoria Embankment, London: Richard Wentworth
Year
2025
Client
fereday pollard for Tideway
Artist
Richard Wentworth
Service
Commission Management
Location
Victoria Embankment,London WC2N 5DJ
A permanent commission for Tyburn Quay, Victoria Embankment
Richard Wentworth has been commissioned by Tideway to create an artwork for this new area of public realm within the River Thames.
Richard Wentworth is a Londoner with a particular interest in the materiality of the city, how it is formed and who makes the shapes which we encounter every day.
“Sacks and barrels are the most elementary containers for the movement of materials and Wentworth’s sacks rhyme with the panniers carried by camels found on benches along the nearby Embankment. Like bodies and bales, sacks accommodate to each other in a frank conversation with gravity. Cast bronze sculptures are also ‘containers’, hollow within even though the popular view is that they are solid.”
Lockbund Sculpture Foundry, has authentically been able to recreate the forms and hessian texture of the sandbags.
Richard Wentworth lives and works in London. He has played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 1970s. His work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture as well as photography. By transforming and manipulating industrial and/or found objects into works of art, Wentworth subverts their original function and extends our understanding of them by breaking the conventional system of classification. The sculptural arrangements play with the notion of ready-made and juxtaposition of objects that bear no relation to each other. Whereas in photography, as in the ongoing series Making Do and Getting By, Wentworth documents the everyday, paying attention to objects, occasional and involuntary geometries as well as uncanny situations that often go unnoticed.
“Contriving something for these new sites which employs the language of the bale and the sack seemed apposite”
Recent exhibitions have been held at Prats Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona (2024); Prats Nogueras Blanchard, Girona (2024); NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid (2019); SWG3, Glasgow with Victoria Miguel (2018); NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona (2017); Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, France (2017); Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, USA (2015); Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London (2015); 'Black Maria' (in collaboration with Gruppe), Kings Cross, London (2013); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010). His work is held in a number of national and international public and private collections.
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