in The Art Newspaper<\/a> about the artist in 2022, the critic David Trigg said: \u201cFrom the nostalgic interiors of Birmingham\u2019s Black barbershops to the verdant landscapes of Jamaica, his art, shaped by an immersion in both British and Afro-Caribbean culture, interrogates places where history and memory collide.\u201d <\/p>\nFor her commission at Stratford station from September, Caroline Walker will explore what an Art on the Underground statement describes as \u201cthe often-invisible labour of women working on TfL\u2019s (Transport for London) networks at night\u201d. In developing the work, Walker has shadowed women working as train operators and cleaners during night shifts on Jubilee line trains.<\/p>\n
Walker\u2019s series of works about the experiences of women in contemporary society (Caroline Walker: Mothering) is on show at Pallant House gallery in Chichester until 10 May. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated monograph published by Lund Humphries.<\/p>\n
In March Phoebe Boswell will install photographic assemblages on escalator panels at Bethnal Green and Notting Hill Gate underground stations.\u00a0The works focus on Black swimming communities, highlighting families and individuals who have historically migrated to the capital. Nairobi-born Boswell was Whitechapel Gallery\u2019s writer in residence in 2022.<\/p>\n
Other 2026 commissions include a new audio work produced by the London-based composer and artist Ain Bailey. Created in partnership with the Mayor of London\u2019s Culture and Community Spaces at Risk programme, the work will be aired this summer (29 June-10 July) at Waterloo station. The piece, which features a recording by the British-Caribbean vocalist Elaine Mitchener, throws light on 60 London premises linked to Bailey which have since closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Art on the Underground programme will include new works by the artists Caroline Walker and Phoebe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[208175,748,393,4884,166253,257,11168,16,15],"class_list":["post-689238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-art-on-the-underground","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-hurvin-anderson","tag-london","tag-public-art","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115877381754516401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}