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  • my name is lettie eggsyrub

    my name is lettie eggsyrub

    Heather Phillipson

    Art on the Underground present a major new commission by British artist Heather Phillipson for the disused platform at Gloucester Road Underground station. my name is lettie eggsyrub, Phillipson’s first public commission in the U.K, will fill the 80m platform at the station and be on view for one year.

    Read More my name is lettie eggsyrub, Heather Phillipson, Gloucester Road station, 2018. Commissioned by Art on the Underground. Photo: G.G Archard, 2018
  • Game of Forms

    Game of Forms

    Geta Brătescu

    For the 28th edition of the pocket Tube map, Art on the Underground have commissioned Romanian artist Geta Brătescu to create a new artwork – marking the nonagenarian artist’s first public commission in the UK.

     

    Read More Geta Brătescu, Game of Forms, 2018. Photo: Benedict Johnson, 2018
  • You in my bedroom

    You in my bedroom

    Marie Jacotey

    For the 4th edition of the Night Tube map, Marie Jacotey presents You in my bedroom. A staged voyeuristic image of a young man looking through his bedroom window at night, in which the male gaze is turned on its head.

    Read More Marie Jacotey, You in my bedroom, 2018. Photo: Benedict Johnson, 2018
  • Claystation

    Claystation

    Assemble and Matthew raw

    Clay Station is a collaboration between Assemble and the artist Matthew Raw involving the production of more than a thousand hand-made tiles as part of the refurbishment and remodelling of a commercial unit at the entrance to Seven Sisters Underground Station which has lain empty for more than a decade.

    Read More Clay Station, Assemble & Matthew Raw, Seven Sisters station, 2017. Photo; G.G. Archard, 2017
  • Rainbow Aphorisms

    Rainbow Aphorisms

    David McDiarmid

    Art on the Underground have worked with Studio Voltaire and the Estate of David McDiarmid to present a selection of the artist’s Rainbow Aphorisms series at Brixton Underground station.

    Read More David McDiarmid, from the Rainbow Aphorims series, 1994, Image courtesy the David McDiarmid Estate, Sydney, Art on the Underground and Studio Voltaire. Photo; Benedict Johnson, 2017
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Game of Forms

Geta Brătescu

May 2018

Current Projects

  • my name is lettie eggsyrub

    Heather Phillipson

    June 7 2018

  • You in my bedroom

    Marie Jacotey

    May 2018

  • Game of Forms

    Geta Brătescu

    May 2018

  • 2018 Programme Announcement

    Linder, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Geta Brătescu, Marie Jacotey, Jade Montserrat, Heather Phillipson, Nina Wakeford

    2018

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News

  • 18 Jun 2018 Art on the Underground are looking for a Curator to join the team on a 12 month Maternity cover basis beginning September 2018. Find out more about the role and apply online here.
  • 11 Jun 2018 Head to Gloucester Road to see Heather Phillipson’s new commission ‘my name is lettie eggsyrub’
  • 21 May 2018 Today we launch our new Day and Night Pocket Tube maps by Geta Brătescu and Marie Jacotey. Available for free in all Tube station.

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