List of public art in Cardiff

The area is bounded by the River Taff to the west, the Civic centre to the north and railway lines and two railway stations – Central and Queen Street – to the south and east respectively.

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Image	Title / individual commemorated	Type	Location	Date	Sculptor	Architect / Designer	Notes	Source
	Alight	Sculpture	Mary Anne Street, outside Tŷ Admiral	2014	S. Mark Gubb	—N/a	Unveiled 17 December 2014. A 10-metre-tall, illuminated steel and glass lightning bolt.	[91]
	Allegories of the drapery business	Relief sculpture	Howells department store	1930	—	Percy Thomas		[92]
	All Hands	Sculpture	Custom House Street	2001	Brian Fell	—N/a	Sculpture runs on the path of the Glamorganshire Canal depicting canal workers pulling boats with ropes.[92] Commissioned by CBAT the Arts & Regeneration Agency on behalf of Cardiff Bay Development Corporation.	[92]
	Alliance	Sculpture	Hayes Place	2009	Jean-Bernard Métais	—N/a	Includes glowing liquid, projected light and text (written by Peter Finch). Commissioned by CBAT the Arts & Regeneration Agency on behalf of Land Securities.	[93][94]
	An Eye for People	Mosaic	Thomson House, Havelock Street	1959	Ray Howard-Jones	—N/a	In 1958 Howard-Jones won a national competition held by the Western Mail for a mosaic outside their new headquarters. The mosaic (and building) was destroyed in 2008.	[95]
	Aneurin Bevan	Statue	Queen Street	1987	Robert Thomas	—N/a		[96]
	Betty Campbell	Bust with sculpture group	Central Square	2021	Eve Shepherd	—N/a	[97][98]
	Boots, 36 to 38 Queen Street	Painting	Queen Street			Stephen Bonutto	Original design is mosaic which would be behind the painting.	[99]
	Cardiff Central Station Mosaics	Mosaic	Cardiff Central railway station	2003	Rob Turner	—N/a		[100]
	Chess Sets	Street furniture	The Hayes	2009	Bedwyr Williams	—N/a	Commissioned by CBAT the Arts & Regeneration Agency on behalf of Land Securities.	[101]
	Connect 4 or 5	Light sculpture	Wood Street Railway Bridge	2009	Adrian Stuart	DO-Architecture Ltd	Illuminated LED installations beneath the arches of the bridge.	[102][103]
	Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well	Drinking fountain	Dock Feeder	1862	W. and T. Wills	—N/a	Donated by William Alexander, Mayor of Cardiff from 1859 to 1860.	[104]
	Jim Driscoll	Statue	Bute Terrace	1997	Philip Blacker	—N/a	Commissioned by CBAT the Arts & Regeneration Agency on behalf of Cardiff Bay Development Corporation.	[25]
	Family Group	Sculptural group	Queen Street	2009	Robert Thomas	—N/a		[105]
	Giant Daffodils	Mural	Cardiff Central Water Tower	1984	Dennis Bridge (team leader)	—N/a	Work was carried out in June 2012 to repaint the tower in beige and brown.[106]	[107]
	Grecian Woman	Statue in niche	The Prince of Wales public House (formerly a theatre), St Mary Street	c. 1920	—N/a	—N/a	Installed when the building was a theatre[108]	[109]
	John Batchelor	Statue	The Hayes	1883–6	James Milo Griffith	—N/a	The statue of this Liberal politician John Batchelor roused opposition from his opponents when it was first erected. The council was presented with a petition for its removal and, in 1887, the statue was daubed with coal tar and paint.	[110]
	John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute	Statue	Callaghan Square	1848–53	John Evan Thomas	—N/a	Originally located in front of the old Town Hall in St Mary Street and moved to Callaghan Square in 2000.[111]	[112]
	Miner	Statue	Queen Street	2005	Robert Thomas	—N/a		[84]
	Mother and Son	Sculptural group	Queen Street	2005	Robert Thomas	—N/a		[113]
	Nereid	Sculpture	Kingsway	1995–6	David Nathan	—N/a		[114]
	Pierhead Clock	Clock	St Mary Street	2011	Marianne Forrest	—N/a	The clock mechanism, dating to 1897, was formerly used by the clock of the Pierhead Building. It was replaced in 1973 and sold to an American collector, who decided to return it to Cardiff in 2005. The monkeys on swinging on the pendulums are a reference to the 3rd Marquess of Bute's opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution.	[115]
	Sir Tasker Watkins	Statue	Outside the Millennium Stadium	2009	Roger Andrews	—N/a		[116]
	Untitled	Sculpture	Formerly on The Hayes (now removed)	1972	Garth Evans	—N/a	40-metre long black steel sculpture commissioned by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation in 1972 and exhibited for 6 months. Returned to The Hayes in September 2019 for another 6 months.	[117][118]
	Without Place	Sculpture	Junction of Charles Street and Queen Street	2011	Denis O'Connor and Bernie Rutter	—N/a		[119]

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