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  • Saved by the Whale's Tail, Saved by Art

    Saved by the Whale's Tail, Saved by Art

    Ahmet Öğüt

    Artist Ahmet Öğüt together with Art on the Underground and New Contemporaries are seeking stories about how art has saved lives.

    Read More Ahmet Öğüt, Stratford station, 2025. Photo: Benedict Johnson
  • Art on the Underground Staff Writer in Residence 2025 at St James's Park

    Art on the Underground Staff Writer in Residence 2025 at St James's Park

    Kristel Tracey

    The Angels of History Speak is the second work from Art on the Underground’s 2024/2025 Writer in Residence Kristel Tracey. Inspired by the ‘Angels of History’, a permanent work by Rosie Hastings and Hannah Quinlan, above the stairs to and from the platforms at the Broadway entrance of St James’s Park station.

    Read More Kristel Tracey with her work, 'The Angels of History Speak' at St James's Park station, 2025. Photo: Benedict Johnson
  • 2025 Programme Announcement

    2025 Programme Announcement

    Kristel Tracey

    Art on the Underground’s programme for 2025 comprises major new works by Ahmet Öğüt, Agnes Denes, Rory Pilgrim and Rudy Loewe.

    Read More Rory Pilgrim, Helicopter, 2023  Pencil, crayon, and nail polish on paper, 31 × 41 cm, Courtesy of Maureen Paley  
  • Angels of History

    Angels of History

    Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan

    Angels of History is a new permanent artwork by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings at St James’s Park station, the only Grade I listed station on the Tube network.

    Read More Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, ‘Angels of History’, 2024. St James’s Park station. Commissioned by Art on the Underground. Photo: GG Archard. Courtesy of the artists and Arcadia Missa.
  • The Fabric of Time

    The Fabric of Time

    Rita Keegan

    A new artwork for the 40th pocket Tube map cover by leading British artist Rita Keegan. The Fabric of Time is inspired by the fabrics of the seats on the London Underground and Keegan’s photographs of London from the 1980s.

    Read More Poster for: Rita Keegan, 'The Fabric of Time', 2024. 40th pocket Tube map cover. Commissioned by Art on the Underground. Photo: Benedict Johnson. © TfL from the London Transport Museum collection (Top line (left to right) Metropolitan line moquette design, artist unknown, circa 1995. District line moquette design (proposed), artist unknown, 2005. Elizabeth Line moquette design, by Wallace Sewell, 2015 Middle (left to right) Moquette design, by Marianne Straub, 1965. Central line check moquette design, by Jonathan Sothcott, circa 1990. Roundel or Bullseye moquette design, by Joy Jarvis, 1947. Bottom (left to right) RT-type bus moquette design, artist unknown, 1947. Moquette design, artist unknown, n.d. Barman moquette design, by Wallace Sewell, 2010. Background station image. District line, Jubilee line, Metrobus and Titan bus moquette design, by Design Research Unit (attributed to Jacqueline Groag), circa 1975))
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Saved by the Whale’s Tail, Saved by Art

Ahmet Öğüt

April 2025

Art on the Underground Staff Writer in Residence 2024 at St James’s Park
2025

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    Ahmet Öğüt

    April 2025

  • 2025 Programme Announcement

    Agnes Denes, Rudy Loewe, Ahmet Öğüt, Rory Pilgrim

    2025

  • Art on the Underground Staff Writer in Residence 2024

    2024

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  • 14 Oct 2022 Currently on view across London Underground: Rhea Storr, Larry Achiampong & more
  • 21 Mar 2023

    We’re delighted to present ‘Griffin and Guardian’ and ‘Underworlds Connect’, two new public artworks at Aldgate East Underground station by London based Canadian-Korean artist Zadie Xa.

    Find out more through the link in our bio

    📸: Benedict Johnson

  • 9 Mar 2023

    A new poster is on display across London Underground stations. Barby Asante’s, ‘Declaration of Independence’, 2023.

    Asante will collaborate with workers at #TransportforLondon on a performance, to create a new Declaration of Independence.

    Find out more: bit.ly/3kXQC3p

  • 13 Aug 2020 Download ‘The Image of Whiteness’ Introduction by Daniel C. Blight

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