The 2026 Artwork on the Underground programme will embrace new works by the artists Caroline Walker and Phoebe Boswell, it was introduced yesterday. The programme, which turns London into an enormous public artwork gallery, may also function works by Hurvin Anderson, whose survey exhibition opens at Tate Britain in March that includes 80 work.
Anderson’s fee for Brixton Underground station, which launches in November, attracts on the artist’s hyperlinks to the world, the place he has run a studio since 1998. Claudette Johnson and Denzil Forrester are among the many artists beforehand commissioned within the Brixton mural collection.
A Tate assertion launched forward of Anderson’s exhibition says: “By means of colour-drenched landscapes and interiors, Anderson meanders backwards and forwards throughout the Atlantic, between the UK and the Caribbean,”
Writing in The Artwork Newspaper in regards to the artist in 2022, the critic David Trigg stated: “From the nostalgic interiors of Birmingham’s Black barbershops to the verdant landscapes of Jamaica, his artwork, formed by an immersion in each British and Afro-Caribbean tradition, interrogates locations the place historical past and reminiscence collide.”
For her fee at Stratford station from September, Caroline Walker will discover what an Artwork on the Underground assertion describes as “the often-invisible labour of ladies engaged on TfL’s (Transport for London) networks at evening”. In growing the work, Walker has shadowed girls working as prepare operators and cleaners throughout evening shifts on Jubilee line trains.
Walker’s collection of works in regards to the experiences of ladies in modern society (Caroline Walker: Mothering) is on present at Pallant Home gallery in Chichester till 10 Could. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated monograph printed by Lund Humphries.
In March Phoebe Boswell will set up photographic assemblages on escalator panels at Bethnal Inexperienced and Notting Hill Gate underground stations. The works give attention to Black swimming communities, highlighting households and people who’ve traditionally migrated to the capital. Nairobi-born Boswell was Whitechapel Gallery’s author in residence in 2022.
Different 2026 commissions embrace a brand new audio work produced by the London-based composer and artist Ain Bailey. Created in partnership with the Mayor of London’s Tradition and Group Areas at Danger programme, the work will probably be aired this summer season (29 June-10 July) at Waterloo station. The piece, which includes a recording by the British-Caribbean vocalist Elaine Mitchener, throws mild on 60 London premises linked to Bailey which have since closed.
