Mosaic at London Bridge Station to be completed this May

May will see the completion of a major 57-metre-long Mosaic art installation titled ‘In a River a Thousand Streams’ at London Bridge Station on the retaining wall defining the space buses enter on station approach. Designed by internationally renowned artist Adam Nathaniel Furman manufactured and installed by the London School of Mosaic.    

The production process included workshops in local offices including The Shard and community spaces, so we want to celebrate this 57 metre long art work and will be seen by an estimated 21 million people a year. To put this into context, 7 million people visit The National Art Gallery every year.   

The concept behind Adam Nathaniel Furman’s vision for the work:  

‘London is a city of astonishing diversity, a city of a thousand communities and identities qualities that have formed who I am, a mixed child of this great melting pot of acceptance and mixed-ness. Southwark and London Bridge are at the heart of this, a great node of people coming in and out, and moving around the city and the wider region every day, as well as being home to a super diverse population. All the amazing contrasts of the wider city are compressed into an intense and thrilling microcosm. ‘In a River A Thousand Streams’ takes these qualities and expresses them in an immediately comprehensible, visually engaging way. All the rich and various stories and histories and identities and communities and diverse figures that together form the brilliantly mixed unity that is London and its history, all anchored by our great river, are here symbolically brought together in a powerfully meaningful, but open and abstract composition’.  

If you’d like to know more about the Mosaic, join our lunchtime walk on Wednesday 22nd May from 1-1.50 with Mr Londoner, aka blue badge tour guide Antony Robbins.