New art will be added to East London’s The Line this summer, with works by Yinka Ilori, Mahtab Hussain, and Simon Faithfull joining the trail, as reported by the Newham Recorder.
The free trail, which takes around four hours to walk, boasts sculptures as well as performances and 2D artworks.
Running through Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Greenwich, The Line was founded in 2015, with inaugural loans including work by Eduardo Paolozzi, Abigail Fallis, and Thomas J Price.
It was founded with the aim to “democratise access to art by introducing sculptures that were previously hidden from public view into the public realm for audiences to experience for free”, and was developed alongside local grassroots organisations.
The trail currently features work by artists Tracey Emin and Anish Kapoor, and has previously featured work by Damien Hirst and Martin Creed.
Now, the trail, which runs from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford to the Greenwich Peninsula, is set to welcome new work over the coming months.
Yinka Ilori’s 2019 piece, Types of Happiness, will join the trail on June 19. The piece is made up of two 10ft tall chairs — part of a wider collection of six chairs — that explores the different types of happiness.
Meanwhile, Mahtab Hussain’s Please Take a Seat, a collaboration between The Line, the National Portrait Gallery, and the London College of Fashion, will be on display from September.
Hussain’s piece is a bench featuring local references that invites the public to engage with the work by writing a response to it as part of an online archive.
Simon Faithfull’s work, 0o00 Navigation, will also join the trail in September, featuring 45 engraved paving stones depicting landscapes from various countries.
The artwork will launch on September 17, with Faithfull presenting a performance lecture at Cody Dock to mark the occasion.
Guided tours of The Line are hosted frequently, while visitors are free to walk the trail at any time.
