Special thanks to: Hobby Limon & TAG Fine Arts; Simon Marsh and Michael Taylor (Paupers Press); Tabitha Philpott-Kent & Bernard Shapero (Shapero Modern); Tim Bryars (Bryars & Bryars); Tabitha Philpott-Kent & Bernard Shapero (Shape
In 43AD, the Romans choose the location for their Londinium on a spot of the northern shoreline of the Thames - narrow enough to be bridged and serviced by the tides. Here, they would link this new capital with the rest of their sprawling empire. Th
Its network of rivers, brooks and streams has gifted Londoners with drinking water, food, trade routes, travel highways and exchanges of many kinds for thousands of years. Today, they do the job of carrying away our waste and sewage. These life givi
The Rivers of London, 2014, traces their meandering routes. It shows the Fleet tributaries springing from the Hampstead ponds in the Vale of Health, down through Camden and into the Thames at Blackfriars. Better-known streams like the Walbrook, the
The map picks up on the etymologies of certain place names that have emerged alongside these waters from which they get their name - Wandsworth on the Wandle, Haca’s Island, Peckham along the River Peck. Other names describe the landscape shaped by
This work celebrates the existence and the shapes of these rivers to evoke earlier times when they formed more of a presence on the landscape - before their degradation. Some of the most distinctive episodes in their histories are mentioned - the Ri
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