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A new public sculpture by Tracey Emin unveiled in London
Tracey Emin, A Moment Without You, Three Mills, The Line. Photo: Angus Mill.
LONDON
.- Established in 2015, The Line is Londons first dedicated public art walk; an outstanding, free outdoor art gallery, following the waterways and line of the Greenwich Meridian along a route which passes through 3 of the most diverse boroughs in the UK: Newham, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich.
The Line announced the unveiling on 21st July of A Moment Without You by the acclaimed British artist, Tracey Emin. The only public sculpture by Emin currently in London, the work features 5 bronze birds perched above head height resting in sight of historic Three Mills, home to the House Mill and the worlds largest surviving tidal mill. Although rendered in bronze, the birds retain the delicate fragility of their living counterparts, as well as the intimacy of the sculptors physical touch in the modelling of each hand-sized form.
An artist s impression of the rebuilt centre (LVRPA) Waltham Forest Council’s leadership has agreed to pay £1 million towards the cost of rebuilding the Lee Valley Ice Centre to prevent the project from failing. The Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA), which owns the ice rink and the land, will receive a grant of £200,000 a year for the next five years, the council’s cabinet decided today (May 4). Plans to rebuild and nearly double the size of the centre were approved by the planning committee last October, despite concerns about the encroachment onto “precious green space”. Now, a report prepared for the cabinet reveals, the LVRPA is struggling to cover” the estimated £30 to 40 million cost of construction, “which could put the entire project in jeopardy”.