List of public art in Kensington

Royal Albert Hall frieze

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The exterior of the Royal Albert Hall (built in 1867–1871 to the designs of Francis Fowke and Henry Young Darracott Scott) is embellished with a mosaic frieze composed of sixteen separate designs by multiple artists. This was assembled from 800 slabs prepared by attendees of the South Kensington Museum's mosaic class; the terracotta was manufactured by Minton, Hollins and Company. The designs are listed below in anti-clockwise order from the north.^[22]

Royal Geographical Society

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Bust of Clements Markham	Courtyard	1921	F. W. Pomeroy		Bust	Grade II*	[23]
More images	Statue of Ernest Shackleton	Exhibition Road façade 51.5015°N 0.17479°W / 51.5015; -0.17479 (Statue of Ernest Shackleton)	1927–1932	Charles Sargeant Jagger		Statue in niche	Grade II*	[24][25]
More images	Statue of David Livingstone	Kensington Gore façade 51.50161°N 0.17498°W / 51.50161; -0.17498 (Statue of David Livingston)	1953	T. B. Huxley-Jones		Statue in niche	Grade II*	[23]

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Earl's Court

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Saint Gregory	St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens	1908	Gilbert Dutson Boulton	Hugh Roumieu Gough (1884–1885)	Statue in niche	Grade I	The only executed figure out of ten which Gough intended to fill the niches on the east front.[40]
More images	War memorial	St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens	1919	Guglielmo Tosi	J. Harold Gibbons (designer)	Calvary	—N/a	[41]
More images	Do It All	Royal Warwick Square	2023	Nick Hornby	—N/a	Multi-perspective sculpture	—N/a	Combines the profile of Nefertiti with the silhouette of the Albert Memorial. The brief called for a com­memor­ation of two residents of the area: George Gilbert Scott and Howard Carter.[42] A Post­modern­ist, Neo-Egyptian branch of Homebase formerly stood on the site, where Hornby shopped for supplies growing up.[39]

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Holland Park

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
More images	The Ancient Melancholy Man	Holland Park	16th century	?	—N/a	Statue	—N/a	[43]
More images	Milo of Croton Trying His Strength	Holland Park	19th century	After Edme Dumont	—N/a	Sculpture	—N/a	Donated by the Friends of Holland Park in 2003.[44]
More images	Statue of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland	Holland Park 51°30′15″N 0°12′12″W	1872	George Frederic Watts and Joseph Edgar Boehm	—N/a	Statue	Grade II	Unveiled 1926.[45]
More images	Boy with Bear Cubs	Holland Park	1902	John Macallan Swan	—N/a	Statue on pedestal	—N/a	[46]
More images	Sun Worshipper	The Café	1910	Jacob Epstein	—N/a	Limestone relief panel	—N/a	[47]
More images	Sibirica	Iris Garden	1999	William Pye	—N/a	Sculptural fountain	—N/a	The title is a reference to Iris sibirica (the Siberian iris).[48]
More images	Annunciation	Holland Park	2000	Andrew Burton	—N/a	Sculpture	—N/a	[49]
	Caesura VI	Holland Park	2000	Charles Hadcock	—N/a	Sculpture	—N/a	[50]
More images	Tortoises with Triangle and Time	Holland Park	2000	Wendy Taylor	—N/a	Sundial with sculpture in bronze	—N/a	[51]
More images	Tonda	Holland Park	2014	Jonathan Loxley	—N/a	Abstract sculpture in honey onyx	—N/a	[52]
More images	Walking Man	Holland Park	2014	Sean Henry	—N/a	Statue	—N/a	[53]

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North Kensington and Notting Hill

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Escutcheon with the Clément-Talbot trade mark	Ladbroke Hall (formerly the Clément-Talbot Motor Works), Barlby Road	1903	?	William T. Walker	Relief	Grade II	[54]
	Coat of arms of the National Bank Limited (Azure a harp Or within an orle of bezants)	Pembridge Gardens, on side of Royal Bank of Scotland, Notting Hill Gate 51.5092°N 0.1965°W / 51.5092; -0.1965 (Coat of arms of the National Bank Limited)	1950s	?		Architectural sculpture (relief)		The National Bank was based in Ireland, and had a branch here. Its British operations were eventually acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1985.[55]
	Mosaic of Saint Sava	Façade of St Sava's Serbian Orthodox Church, Notting Hill 51.5169°N 0.2088°W / 51.5169; -0.2088 (Mosaic of Saint Sava)	1952 c. 1952			Mosaic	—N/a	[56]
More images	Statue of Saint Volodymyr	Holland Park Avenue 51.5074°N 0.2041°W / 51.5074; -0.2041 (Statue of Saint Volodymyr)	1988	Leo Mol	—N/a	Statue	—N/a	Unveiled 29 May 1988. Com­memor­ates the 1,000th anni­versary of the Christian­isation of Kievan Rus'. Later in 1988, another statue of the saint by the same sculptor was erected in Rome.[57]
	Haiku Sculpture	Outside the Czech Embassy, at the junction of Notting Hill Gate and Palace Gardens Terrace	1996	Václav Vokolek	—N/a	Sculpture	—N/a	Six stainless steel rectangles arranged to resemble three open books, with letters cut out to varying degrees spelling out a haiku by Vokolek.[58]
	Carnival Elephant	Outside Waterstone's, Notting Hill Gate 51.5090°N 0.1957°W / 51.5090; -0.1957 (Carnival Elephant)	2003	Nadim Karam		Sculpture	—N/a	[59]
	Two Carnival Figures	On roof of Waterstone's, Notting Hill Gate 51.5090°N 0.1956°W / 51.5090; -0.1956 (Two Carnival Figures)	2003	Nadim Karam		Architectural sculpture	—N/a	[59]
	Sculptural reliefs and Triton weather-vane	Havona House, 57 Pembridge Villas, Pembridge Road	2011–2017 c. 2011–2017	Theo Gayer-Anderson	Mallinson Architects & Engineers	Architectural sculpture	—N/a	The reliefs are based on those of the Tower of the Winds as they appeared in Stuart and Revettt's Antiquities of Athens (1762).[60]

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South Kensington

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Architectural sculpture	39 Harrington Gardens	1882–1883	?	Ernest George and Peto	Architectural sculpture	Grade II	The house was built for the librettist W. S. Gilbert; the sculpted ship and dolphins on the gable allude to his supposed ancestor Sir Humphrey Gilbert.[61]
More images	Statue of Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala	Queen's Gate 51.5013°N 0.1803°W / 51.5013; -0.1803 (Statue of Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala)	1891	Joseph Edgar Boehm	—N/a	Equestrian statue	Grade II	Originally stood in Waterloo Place; moved to its current site in 1921. A replica of the statue to Napier in Kolkata. The boundary line with the City of West­minster bisects the length of this statue.[7] In 2004 the artist Eleonora Aguiari wrapped the statue in bright red tape as a comment on Britain's imperialist past.[8]
	Bust of Julius Wernher	Royal School of Mines 51.4999°N 0.1757°W / 51.4999; -0.1757 (Bust of Julius Wernher)	1910	Paul Raphael Montford	Aston Webb	Bust	Grade II	[62]
	Bust of Alfred Beit	Royal School of Mines 51.4999°N 0.1758°W / 51.4999; -0.1758 (Bust of Alfred Beit)	1910	Paul Raphael Montford	Aston Webb	Bust	Grade II	[62]
	War memorial	Outside St Augustine's Church, Queen's Gate 1.4932°N 0.1783°W / 1.4932; -0.1783 (St Augustine's Church War Memorial)	After 1918	?		Calvary		[63]
More images	Yalta Memorial (Twelve Responses to Tragedy)	Yalta Memorial Garden, Cromwell Road 51.4957°N 0.1724°W / 51.4957; -0.1724 (Yalta Memorial)	1986	Angela Conner			—N/a	Replaced original version of 1981, destroyed by vandals in 1982.
	Unfurl	Palace Gate, at the corner with Kensington Gate 51.4998°N 0.1836°W / 51.4998; -0.1836 (Unfurl)	2000	Eilis O'Connell	—N/a	Sculpture	—N/a	A sheet of bronze curved into a shape resembling an arum lily, commissioned to mark the turn of the millennium.[64]
More images	Statue of Béla Bartók	South Kensington tube station 51.4937°N 0.17381°W / 51.4937; -0.17381 (Statue of Béla Bartók)	2004	Imre Varga	—N/a	Statue	—N/a	The statue, a copy of one in Budapest, faces the house on Sydney Place where the composer stayed on several visits to London.[65]
More images	Memorial to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami	Darwin Centre courtyard, Natural History Museum 51.4963°N 0.1784°W / 51.4963; -0.1784 (Memorial to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami)	2011	—N/a	Carmody Groarke Architects	Memorial	—N/a	Unveiled 6 July 2011 by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.[66] 4.1m³ of granite with one corner cut away, the largest single block of stone to be transported in Great Britain since the building of Stonehenge. Michael Holland, the memorial's principal organiser, lost his mother, wife and daughter to the tsunami.[67]
More images	Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace	Natural History Museum. Originally outside the Darwin Centre 2 building, near the wildlife garden, later moved indoors [68]	2013	Anthony Smith	—N/a	Statue	—N/a	Unveiled 7 November 2013, the centenary of Wallace’s death, by David Attenborough. The statue depicts Wallace at the moment of his discovery of the golden birdwing butterfly in the Bacan Islands of Ind­o­nesia.[69]
	Fern Diplodocus	Evolution Garden, Natural History Museum	2024	—N/a	Factum Arte and Structure Workshop	Sculpture	—N/a	Unveiled 16 July 2024. A bronze cast of the famous specimen Dippy; the name was chosen by local school­children.[70][71]
	Hypsilophodon	Evolution Garden, Natural History Museum	2024	—N/a		Sculpture	—N/a	[70]

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