Art

Quantum Cloud

Exhibit 7 Quantum Cloud
Second only to Henry Moore in the ubiquity of his international placements of large-scale figurative public sculptures, Turner Prize-winner Antony Gormley is most famous for his ‘Angel of the North’ in Gateshead, which at 20 metres high, is taller than four double-decker buses. ‘Quantum Cloud’ (1999), however, located on the river by the Greenwich Peninsula, tops that at 30 metres and is one of Britain’s tallest sculptures. Commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company for the opening of the Dome, Gormley’s sculpture was designed using fractal growth computer software and constructed from over 3,500 seemingly randomly joined tubes of galvanised steel, each a metre and a half in length. When viewed from a certain angle it creates the appearance of a 20-metre tall figure within it. Gormley’s sculpture will become an integral part of the new development of the site.
Queen Elizabeth II Pier, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10. North Greenwich tube. Feature continues

Eye-I
Emerging from the pavement in Bishopsgate, Bruce McLean’s 1993 huge, garish outline of a face is made from brightly coloured steel
I-beams. To avoid potential injuries to the visually impaired, raised stones at the base warn that there’s something hard ahead.
Pindar Plaza, Bishopsgate, EC2. Liverpool St tube/rail.

Restless Dream
Part of the £250,000 London Docklands Development Corporation commission for the Limehouse Link in 1993, a huge circular sculpture by Zadok Ben-David, of silhouetted figures, marks the entrance to Docklands.
Western Services Building end of the Limehouse Link tunnel, E1. Limehouse DLR.

Wapping Big Bear
Situated in Tobacco Dock, a 1.9 metre-high bear commemorates local shopowner Charles Jamrach, who died in 1891. Jamrach imported and sold wild animals, including alligators, tigers, elephants, monkeys and birds.
Porters Walk, off Pennington St, E1. Shadwell tube/DLR.