Monday, July 26, 2021
In "a bit special" local art news, Bromley-by-Bow has gained a set of Tracey Emin sculptures.
The work's called A Moment Without You and comprises five sculpted bronze birds perched atop of a series of high poles. They're so high that the individual birds are quite hard to see but that's all part of Tracey's plan to create "something which would appear and disappear and not dominate". It's also not an original commission - the birds have already appeared in Regent's Park and Hong Kong and an identical flock is currently flying high beside the Delaware in Philadelphia - but it is quite a coup for the E3 postcode.
The feathered quintet has been positioned beside the towpath at Three Mills as part of East London art walk The Line, a project that's upped its game of late. Also new here is a juniper tree weathervane on the roof of the House Mill, deftly evoking the site's gin-distilling past, and arguably even harder to spot. If a cormorant lands on the roof while you're here, that's a bonus.
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