List of public art in Wolverhampton
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This is a list of public art in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.
Wolverhampton
City Centre
Queen Square
St Peter's Gardens
Wolverhampton Station
University of Wolverhampton
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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File:Sculpture near the Molineux - Wolverhampton - Echelon with Concrete Pillars (16571422059).jpg | Echelon with Concrete Pillars | University of Wolverhampton – School of Art and Design – Ring Road St Peter's, Wolverhampton 52°35′22″N 2°07′42″W / 52.589317°N 2.128333°W |
1972 | Hubert Dalwood | Sculpture | Concrete | University of Wolverhampton | [15] | |||
File:University of Wolverhampton City Campus Molineux sculpture (32525388437).jpg | Sculpture near the University of Wolverhampton School of Art | University of Wolverhampton – School of Art and Design – Ring Road St Peter's, Wolverhampton 52°35′22″N 2°07′43″W / 52.589440°N 2.128677°W |
1970 | Sculpture | Concrete | University of Wolverhampton | |||||
File:University of Wolverhampton - Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton - sculpture - 1933 (16585123637).jpg More images |
Allegorical Figures and Cartouche | University of Wolverhampton – Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton 52°35′15″N 2°07′40″W / 52.587440°N 2.127700°W |
1933 | Col G. C. Lowbridge | Sculpture | Sandstone | 1.8m high x 1.2m wide | University of Wolverhampton | [16] | ||
File:Thinking Man bronze sculpture - Ambika Paul Building, University of Wolverhampton (54116233167).jpg | Thinking Man | Outside entrance of the Ambika Paul Building, University of Wolverhampton 52°35′17″N 2°07′43″W / 52.588158°N 2.128567°W |
2007 | André Wallace | Sculpture | Bronze | University of Wolverhampton | Is an Archimedes like figure, deep in thought and contemplation. The symbols in front of him are clues to the past occupants of the site, it's industrial heritage and discoveries of our time. The subtle engravings upon his head reveal the functions and activity of the brain.[17] | |||
File:Head bronze sculpture - Ambika Paul Building, University of Wolverhampton (54116233217).jpg | Head | Outside entrance of the Ambika Paul Building, University of Wolverhampton 52°35′17″N 2°07′43″W / 52.588068°N 2.128478°W |
2007 | André Wallace | Sculpture | Bronze | University of Wolverhampton | Resembles a machine in two parts but which fit perfectly together to make a whole. The Brain appears as a well-maintained mechanical part and makes reference to an internal involute gear and spur gear, both developed for the car industry.[17]
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Ring Road
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:BCN Main Line Canal - Wolverhampton - Small park - Gears - cogs sculpture (16560585807).jpg More images |
Gears sculpture | Small park between Ring Road St Patricks and Broad Street Basin, Wolverhampton 52°35′20″N 2°07′23″W / 52.588867°N 2.123001°W |
2012 | Sculpture | Steel | Wolverhampton City Council | One is near Little's Lane and one is near Wednesfield Road (first appears on Google Street Map view in October 2012) | |||
File:BCN Main Line Canal - Wolverhampton - Small park - Sculpture (16766711351).jpg More images |
Sarcophagus sculpture | Small park between Ring Road St Patricks and Broad Street Basin, Wolverhampton 52°35′21″N 2°07′23″W / 52.589134°N 2.123140°W |
Sculpture | Stone | Wolverhampton City Council | Kind of looks like a Sarcophagus | ||||
File:Wolverhampton Ionic Order.JPG More images |
Ionic Order | Wednesfield Road and Ring Road St Patricks, Wolverhampton 52°35′18″N 2°07′23″W / 52.588343°N 2.123059°W |
1991 | Hugh Tessier | Sculpture | Brick pedestal & Steel column | 500cm high approx | Wolverhampton City Council | Used to be on Pipers Row near the old Wolverhampton bus station before it was moved to this location[18]
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Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:BillyWrightStatue.jpg More images |
Billy Wright | The Molineux – Wolverhampton 52°35′24″N 2°07′55″W / 52.590039°N 2.131878°W |
1996 | James Butler | Statue | Bronze | Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. | [19] As of mid January 2017, the plaques below the statue have been damaged due to a car crash [20] | ||
File:StanCullisStatue.jpg More images |
Stan Cullis | The Molineux – Wolverhampton 52°35′28″N 2°07′51″W / 52.59111°N 2.1308°W |
2003 | James Butler | Statue | Bronze | Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. | Former player and manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers from 1934 to 1964 [21] | ||
File:Statue of Sir Jack Hayward at The Molineux in Wolverhampton (47467413961).jpg More images |
Sir Jack Hayward | The Molineux – Wolverhampton 52°35′22″N 2°07′53″W / 52.589441°N 2.131415°W |
2018 | James Butler | Statue | Bronze | Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. | Was the owner of Wolves for 17 years until 2007.[22]
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Other city centre areas
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:The Wheatsheaf - Tower Street, Wolverhampton (16158236433).jpg More images |
The Wheatsheaf | The Wheatsheaf – Tower Street, Wolverhampton 52°35′05″N 2°07′31″W / 52.584689°N 2.125276°W |
Sculpture | |||||||
File:Thornley Street, Wolverhampton - Gateway East sculpture (16138514113).jpg More images |
City Gateway | Either side of Stafford Street, Wolverhampton 52°35′20″N 2°07′35″W / 52.589004°N 2.126327°W |
2008 | Julia Rowley | Sculpture | Stainless steel, glass & acrylic | 5 metres | Gateway East near Thornley Street. Gateway West near a University of Wolverhampton building[23] | ||
File:Sunbeam record attempt bronze panel.JPG | Sunbeam Car Panels | St. John's Retail Park, Wolverhampton 52°34′47″N 2°07′38″W / 52.57963°N 2.12734°W (approx) |
1995 | Steve Field, John McKenna | Relief sculpture | Bronze | 3m by 2m | St John's Retail Park | [24] | |
File:Wolverhampton St John's Retail Park Railings 2.JPG More images |
Historical Car and Motorcycle Company Logos | Railings of St John's Retail Park, Wolverhampton 52°34′47″N 2°07′34″W / 52.579655°N 2.126114°W |
1995 | Steve Field, John McKenna | Sculpture | Steel, with applied surface, silver/grey | Fence panels: Slight variations but one is 36cm high x 62 cm wide, another is 50cm diameter. Large panel:100cm diameter approx | St John's Retail Park | Logos for Guy, The Sunbeam, Clyno etc[25] | |
File:Wolverhampton Sainsbury's Sculpture.JPG | Out of the Darkness Cometh Light | Sainsbury's – St Mark's Street, Wolverhampton 52°35′02″N 2°08′08″W / 52.583931°N 2.135516°W |
2014 | Planet Art (Julie Edwards & Ron Thompson) | Sculpture | Stainless steel | 8m | Sainsbury's | Stainless steel vase sculpture for the new Sainsbury's Raglan Street store[26] | |
File:Horseley Fields sculptures in Wolverhampton (51287598045).jpg | Horseley Fields horses | Corner of Horseley Fields and Corn Hill, Wolverhampton 52°35′08″N 2°07′12″W / 52.58557815479327°N 2.119887769172608°W |
Horse sculptures | On the corner of the Horseley Fields housing development
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West Park
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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File:Statue of Charles Pelham Villiers at West Park, Wolverhampton (47481219521).jpg More images |
Charles Pelham Villiers | West Park, Wolverhampton 52°35′23″N 2°08′27″W / 52.58984°N 2.1408°W |
1878 | W.Theed the younger | Statue | Ashlar | Grade II listed[27] | Wolverhampton City Council | Q26497586 | MP for Wolverhampton for 63 years. The statue was moved from its original position in Snow Hill in 1931. | |
File:Wolverhampton West Park Victorian Sewer.JPG More images |
Victorian Sewer | West Park, Wolverhampton 52°35′14″N 2°08′19″W / 52.587238°N 2.138652°W |
1970s | Sculpture | Brick | Wolverhampton City Council | Built for a Wolverhampton Fiesta in the 1970s
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Blakenhall
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:Lone Rider - Steve Field.jpg | The Lone Rider | Penn Road, Blakenhall, Wolverhampton 52°34′33″N 2°08′09″W / 52.575861°N 2.135798°W |
1996 | Steve Field | Sculpture | Hoptonwood limestone | Marks the site of the former AJS motorcycle factory. Carved by Robert Bowers, assisted by Michael Scheuermann.[24][28]
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Heath Town
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:Wolverhampton Reflective Metal Bridge.JPG | Reflective Metal Bridge | Wyrley and Essington Canal – Heath Town, Wolverhampton 52°35′35″N 2°06′05″W / 52.593075°N 2.101318°W |
Sculpture | Steel | [29]
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New Cross Hospital
Bilston
Town Centre
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:Bilston teails area sculpture.JPG More images |
High Street entrance marker | Junction of Dudley Street and High Street, Bilston 52°33′52″N 2°04′45″W / 52.564334°N 2.079195°W |
1999 | Kate Maddison of Chrysalis Arts | Sculpture | Steel, natural, gold and blue | 6.5m high | Wolverhampton City Council | The top of the spiral has two flying doves on it. [32][33] | |
File:Bilston Retail area sculpture.JPG More images |
Church Street entrance marker | Junction of Lichfield Street and Church Street, Bilston 52°33′58″N 2°04′27″W / 52.566198°N 2.074051°W |
2004 | Kate Maddison of Chrysalis Arts | Sculpture | Steel | 7.5-metre column | Wolverhampton City Council | Has a gilded rising sun and a stainless steel mantle[33] | |
File:Church Street, Bilston - Women's Work (27915052339).jpg More images |
Women's Work | Outside the Horse and Jockey, Church Street, Bilston 52°33′56″N 2°04′35″W / 52.565688°N 2.076406°W |
May 1998 | Rose Garrard | Sculpture | Bronze | Wolverhampton City Council | A female figure beside a pit-head gantry, commemorates the impoverished women working in the 19th century coal and iron industries of the Black Country. [34] Based on a 19th Century photograph of a pit bank wench or coal picker from Bilston [35] | ||
File:Amber the Fire Breather.JPG | Amber the Fire Breather | back garden of Bilston Craft Gallery and Museum – Mount Pleasant, Bilston 52°34′05″N 2°04′18″W / 52.568003°N 2.071568°W |
1994 | Graham Jones | Sculpture | Oak and sweet chestnut | 12m long | Wolverhampton City Council | [36] | |
File:Job Centre Artwork.JPG More images |
Industrial Images | Job Centre Plus – Junction of Smith Street and High Street, Bilston 52°33′51″N 2°04′47″W / 52.564262°N 2.079809°W |
1995 | John McKenna | Relief | Brick, red and buff, partially painted | 3m x 2.75m | Job Centre Plus | [37] Brick relief panel was depicting former Bilston Industry[38] | |
File:Witness.JPG More images |
Witness | Church Street bridge, Bilston 52°33′58″N 2°04′32″W / 52.566021°N 2.075504°W |
1997 | Bettina Furnee | Sculpture | Cast iron | Wolverhampton City Council | Text composed using tape recordings from an oral history project looking back at the local steel industry which came to an end in the 1980s. On 14 panels. [39] [40]
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Black Country Route
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:Hovering kestrel by John McKenna sculptor (2).jpg More images |
Hovering kestrel | Citadel Logistics Building on the Black Country Route, Bilston 52°34′07″N 2°03′18″W / 52.568519°N 2.055003°W |
2009 | John McKenna | Sculpture | Stainless steel | Wolverhampton City Council | [41] | ||
File:Steel Columns by Robert Koenig.JPG More images |
Steel Columns | next to footpath adjacent to Oxford Street Roundabout near Black Country Route, Bilston 52°33′54″N 2°04′16″W / 52.565072°N 2.071207°W |
1996 | Robert Koenig | Sculpture | Sweet Chestnut trunks, painted black, red, and yellow | Front row: 450cm high x 38cm diameter, middle row: 505cm high x 40cm diameter, back row: 560cm high x 45cm diameter | Wolverhampton City Council | [42] | |
File:Three Columns sculpture.JPG More images |
Steel Monoliths | Roundabout between Millfields Road, High Street, Wolverhampton Street and Coseley Road near Black Country Route, Bilston 52°33′49″N 2°05′00″W / 52.563571°N 2.083344°W |
1996 | Miles Davis | Sculpture | Core-ten steel | Approximately 10m high | Wolverhampton City Council | [43] Sculpture consisting of 3 steel monoliths about 10 meters high to reflect Bilston’s engineering past. [44] | |
File:Tower of light.JPG More images |
Tower of Light | Adjacent to Bilston Football Club – Vulcan Roundabout – Black Country Route, Bilston 52°33′56″N 2°03′55″W / 52.565571°N 2.065191°W |
1998 | Eilis O'Connell | Sculpture | Stainless steel, glass and fibre optics | 16.5m high x 2m diameter at base | Wolverhampton City Council | [45][46] | |
File:Beth's Arch, Bilston, Wolverhampton - geograph.org.uk - 1801822.jpg More images |
Beth's Arch | Roundabout adjacent to Bilston firestation – Black Country Route, Bilston 52°33′44″N 2°04′59″W / 52.562183°N 2.082981°W |
1996 | Sarah Tombs | Sculpture | Steel, painted black and brown | 8m | Wolverhampton City Council | named after Elizabeth one of the Blast Furnaces located at the Steelworks that once stood nearby [47][48] | |
File:Enshrined Pressure.JPG More images |
Black Country Route Special Features Project | Black Country Route, Bilston 52°33′49″N 2°04′42″W / 52.563576°N 2.078437°W |
1993 | Richard Criddle | Sculpture | Fabricated steel, painted blue | Wolverhampton City Council | At least 7 sculptures along the route [49] [50] Wall relief (x4) in small gardens. [51] | ||
File:Morrisons - Black Country Route, Bilston - Tower Panels (38795281835).jpg More images |
Tower Panels | Morrisons, Black Country Route, Bilston 52°33′50″N 2°04′34″W / 52.563921°N 2.076137°W |
1995 | Steve Field | Panels | sheet steel against a background of plate glass | Four metal panels 4m high x 3m wide | Morrisons | Three panels on four sides, depicting work in a rolling mill, mining and an imaginative panel | |
File:Bert Williams Leisure Centre - Black Country Route, Bilston - Fire & Water sculpture (39692960531).jpg | Fire & Water | Bert Williams Leisure Centre, Nettlefolds Way, Bilston 52°33′47″N 2°04′39″W / 52.563001°N 2.077436°W |
Circling the Square | Lighting sculpture | coloured LED's, cast glass, stainless steel & photographic panels. | WV Active | It lights up at night [52]
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Spring Vale
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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File:Stainless steel sculpture near Spring Vale, Wolverhampton - geograph.org.uk - 2320860.jpg | Roll Down | Springvale Avenue 52°33′36″N 2°05′18″W / 52.559911°N 2.088309°W |
1994 | Robert Erskine | Sculpture | Stainless steel | 10.5m high | The sculpture represents an ingot passing through a rolling mill.[53]
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Wednesfield
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