LONDON
Below is a presentation of the artwork and locations in London,
in order of appearance in the film.
Inflated Star & Wooden Star
Frank Stella
"Inflated Star and Wooden Star" is a digitally designed, 7-meter tall sculpture made with aluminum and teak wood. It was on display in London at the Royal Academy of Arts' Annenberg Courtyard in the first half on 2015. 

​Frank Stella (born 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He carved a name for himself in the competitive New York art scene of the 1960s and 70s, thanks to his unique paintings in bright colors which create vivid optical illusions. His career was meteoric, and he became the youngest artist to have a retrospective at MoMA in 1970, aged 33. Stella was made an Honorary Royal Academician in 1993 and his work can be found in prestigious international collections. He has since been the subject of several retrospectives in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
D3 Building Courtyard Sculpture


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34 North Colonnade
London E14 5HX, UK
DS3 Courtyard Sculpture, Canary Wharf​​
The entrance to the D3 Building Courtyard, in Canary Warf, is the location of a tree-like sculpture built by BF Bassett and Findley. The sapling design was intended to introduce an element of simplicity into the manufacture of the component parts. The core was structurally designed with a 325mm diameter x 10mm stainless steel tube which would provide the robust trunk, and the branches interlinking to form a canopy of 10mm diameter stainless steel rods some 9m wide x 21m long. The final structure blossomed into a spectacular center piece within a busy financial area.
The Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It was built by William the Conqueror in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. The castle was used as a prison from 1100 until 1952 although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
St Katharine's & Wapping,
​London EC3N 4AB, UK
Newton Statue
L. Daymond & Son
On the front of the City of London School building in central London is a statue representing Isaac Newton, sculpted by L. Daymond & Son in 1882. The building was designed by Davis and Emanuel and constructed by John Mowlem & Co.  Aside from Newton there are 4 other statues of famous figures: Sir Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, John Milton and Sir Thomas More. The building is presently occupied by the investment bank JP Morgan.
 
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, laying the foundations of classical mechanics and formulating the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. ​
60 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0JP, UK
Young Atlases
​Frederick William Pomeroy
"Young Atlases with Armillary Sphere and Zodiacal Globe" is a bronze sculpture made in 1901-1903 by Frederick William Pomeroy. It stands atop Electra House at 84 Moorgate, a building which is notable as the wartime London base of Cable & Wireless Limited and is now part of the London Metropolitan University. ​​The sculpture shows four boys holding an armillary sphere. Frederick William Pomeroy RA (1856 – 1924) was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. 
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¤ Other Pomeroy works in Ψ:  Lady Justice in London
Electra House, 84 Moorgate, London EC2M 6SQ UK
East Window
Shirazeh Houshiary​ & Pip Horne
"East Window" (2008) is an installation created by artist Shirazeh Houshiary in collaboration with architect Pip Horne, located in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, an English Anglican church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in London. Reminiscent of a cross, the horizontal and vertical lines move towards a central opening that allows light to pass through. The project was commissioned to replace a window that had been shattered by bombs during World War II, and is today managed by Modus Operandi.  ​​When speaking about her work, Houshiary says: “The universe is in a process of disintegration. Everything is in a state of erosion, and yet we try to stabilize it. This tension fascinates me and it's at the core of my work."
Shirazeh Houshiary was born in 1955 in Iran where she went to school before going to the Chelsea School of Art. At first a sculptor, she later came to painting and multimedia installations. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, her work is collected by museums such as Tate and Guggenheim.
Pip Horne is a London based architect and designer. Following graduation from the Royal College of Art London, he established his architecture and design practice, Pip Horne Studio which is dedicated to designing and delivering architecture of quality and meaning. 
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square, London
Lloyd's Building
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
The Lloyd's building is home to the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 18 November 1986 and has since recieved Grade I listing in 2011 (the youngest structure ever to obtain this status). It is a leading example of radical Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building, such as ducts and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise interior space. 
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSH+P) is a British architectural firm, founded in 1977 and originally known as the Richard Rogers Partnership. Its founder, Richard Rogers, has previously worked on the Pompidou Centre in Paris. ​
​12 Leadenhall St,
​London EC3V 1LP, UK
Quantum Cloud
Sir Antony Gormley
​The "Quantum Cloud" is a 30m-tall contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located next to the Millennium Dome in London. The sculpture was commissioned for the site and was completed in 1999. It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5 m long sections of steel. These sections were arranged using a computer model with a random walk algorithm starting from points on the surface of an enlarged figure based on Gormley's body that forms a residual outline at the center of the sculpture. In designing "Quantum Cloud," Antony Gormley was influenced by Basil Hiley, a quantum physicist and long-time colleague of David Bohm. Indeed, the idea for "Quantum Cloud" came from Hiley's thoughts on pre-space as a mathematical structure underlying space-time and matter, and his comment that “algebra is the relationship of relationships.” ​​​
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE (born 1950) is a British sculptor. His best known works include "The Angel of the North" (1998) and "Event Horizon," a multi-part site installation in London (2007), New York City (2010), São Paulo, (2012), and in Hong Kong (2015-16). In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture."
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¤ Other Gormley works in Ψ: Reflection in London
​Isle of Dogs, London, UK
King's Cross Station
​John McAslan + Partners
King's Cross railway station is a major London railway terminus which opened in 1852 on the northern edge of central London. In 2005, a £500 million restoration plan was announced. The new departures concourse was designed by John McAslan & Partners, and opened to the public on 19 March 2012, in advance of the 2012 London Olympics. The concourse rises some 20m and spans the full 150m-length of the existing Grade I Listed Western Range, comprising of 16 steel tree form columns that radiate from an expressive, tapered central funnel. It is Europe’s largest single span station structure and has become an iconic crossroads of London, linking St Pancras Station, Thameslink services, London Underground, taxis and bus services, and accommodating up to 150,000 passengers daily.
John Renwick McAslan, CBE (born 1954) is a British architect. He founded John McAslan + Partners in 1996. The firm was named World Architect of the Year in 2009 by Building Design magazine. The practice's work has been extensively exhibited and has received more than 120 international design awards, including 25 RIBA international, national, regional and special awards.
​Euston Rd, Kings Cross,
​London N1 9AL, UK
Six Public Clocks
Konstantin Grcic
"Six Public Clocks" (1999) by Konstantin Grcic was the winning design in a competition inviting proposals for this public space. His playful installation is based on the iconic Swiss railway clock. On each of the 12 clock faces (each clock is double sided) the hands are in the same position, but each one has a different number on its face. German designer Grcic is best known for his furniture and product design. Based in Munich, Grcic has won numerous prestigious awards, such as Honorary Royal Designer for Industry awarded by the RSA in 2009. His work forms part of the permanent collections of the world´s most important design museums (MoMA/New York, Centre Georges Pompidou/Paris). ​
Reuters Plaza, Canary Warf, London
Golden Jubilee Bridge
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Built either side of the existing Hungerford Bridge (1845) and completed in 2002, the Golden Jubilee Bridges are 4-meter wide footbridges. They were named in honor of the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession.  Their construction was complicated by the need to keep the railway bridge operating without interruptions, the Bakerloo Line tunnels passing only a few feet under the river bed, and the potential danger of unexploded World War II bombs in the Thames mud. ​
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is a practice of architects, urban designers and masterplanners established in 1986 and practicing out of London.​ Their work on the Golden Jubilee Bridges won the Specialist category in the Royal Fine Art Commission Building of the Year Award in 2003. The footbridges are reportedly the busiest in London, with an estimated footfall of 8.5 million each year.
Torrington Square Armillary Sphere
Outside Birkbeck College in Torrington Square is an armillary sphere that was unveiled on June 12, 2008 by Princess Anne to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the University of London External System.  An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (in the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial longitude and latitude and other astronomically important features such as the ecliptic. As such, it differs from a celestial globe, which is a smooth sphere whose principal purpose is to map the constellations. It was invented separately in ancient Greece and ancient China, with later use in the Islamic world and Medieval Europe.
Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, ​London WC1E 7J
​Really Good
David Shrigley
 'Really Good' is a sculpture by British artist David Shrigley that represents a 7m-high hand with a long thumb cast in bronze. Unveiled by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, it occupied the fourth plinth at London's Trafalgar Square from September 2016 to March 2018. The plinth, built in 1841, was meant for a statue of King William IV but stood empty because of lack of funding. More recently, it has hosted various commissioned artworks on a temporary basis. Shrigley said: 'It's a work about making the world a better place.” Mr. Khan added: "The changing artworks on Fourth Plinth continue to be a source of delight, discussion and debate and I am proud to be the mayor of a city that has such an energetic and vibrant cultural life." David Shrigley (born 1968) is a British visual artist. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013 and is acclaimed for his bold and opinionated drawings, animations and sculptures that explore the absurdity of 21st-century society.
 Trafalgar Square,
London WC2N 5DN, U
Sermon Lane Globes
A series of stainless steel globes can be found along Sermon Lane and Peter's Hill, in between St Paul's Cathedral and the Millenium Bridge.
Reformer's Tree
Harry Gray
The Reformers' Tree was an oak tree which became the focus of protests in 1866 by the Reform League, a group campaigning to give all adult men the right to vote in the UK. During one protest the Reformers' Tree was set alight and the charred stump of the tree became a notice board, a rallying point for meetings and a symbol of the right of the people to assemble. In 1872, an act of parliament allowed public speaking in the north east corner of Hyde Park. People could talk about anything as long as they didn't use indecent or obscene language. The area became famous all over the world as Speaker's Corners. Today a circular black and white floor mosaic made by Harry Gray and unveiled in 2000 sits in its place to commemorate The Reformers' Tree. The mosaic is at a meeting of 9 of Hyde Park’s footpaths and 7 other mosaics, pointing the way to Hyde Park Corner, the Bandstand, Knightsbridge, The Serpentine, Kensington Gardens, Lancaster Gate, Paddington and Speakers’ Corner Marble Arch (the landscape architect was Roz Flind Land Use Consultants). ​Harry Gray is a British artist who specializes in permanent artworks where relationship of the work to the site is carefully thought out.
Hyde Park, London
Search for Enlightenment
Simon Gudgeon
"Search for Enlightenment" depicts two large human heads (over 2 meters high) of a man and a woman in profile, cast in bronze, their faces raised to the sky in contemplation. It was placed in January 2012 outside One Hyde Park: The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, a major residential and retail complex located by Hyde Park, owned by Project Grande Limited and designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (who also designed the Lloyds Building, see above). The piece reflects the artist’s mystical approach to the immensity of the universe and humanity’s short time on earth. He said: “I stood on a 240-million-year-old mountain in Africa and watched the 4.6-billion-year-old sun descend below the horizon. ​As the light diminished, the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way began to glow in the night sky. It was at that moment I began to grasp the narrowness of consciousness, the vastness of time and the transience of humanity.”
​Simon Gudgeon (born 1958) is a British artists. He studied law and practiced as a solicitor before starting painting only in his thirties. Since then, he has attained worldwide recognition. Hinting at how the creative process unfolds for him, he explains, ‘Most sculptures don’t start out as a conscious thought |...]. What happens is that an idea enters my mind – be it a shape, a movement or an emotion – and I simply want to convey it.’  ​
​One Hyde Park, 100 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LJ
Twelve Responses to Tragedy
Angela Conner
"Twelve Responses to Tragedy," also known as the Yalta Memorial, is a bronze sculpture by British artist Angela Conner, commemorating people displaced as a result of the Yalta Conference at the conclusion of the Second World War. It consists of twelve bronze heads of differing sizes and representing differing ages atop a stone base. The memorial was dedicated in 1986 to replace a previous memorial (also by Conner) from 1982 that had been repeatedly damaged by vandalism. Angela Conner FRBS (born 1935) is an English sculptor who has exhibited internationally. She is particularly famous for her kinetic sculptures that entirely depend on the natural forces and thus move without the need for electricity. "If mankind were suddenly to die out, and if as a result there were no artificial power, the sculpture would still continue its pattern of opening and revealing, then closing and embracing."
Cromwell Gardens, South Kensington
London, SW7, UK
Mary Seacole, Alan Turing and Michael Bond
Sustrans
In the small park close to St Mary’s Church, Paddington Green, can be found 3 two-dimensional artworks that depict famous nurse Mary Seacole, computer pioneer Alan Turing and Paddington Bear author Michael Bond. ​The three sculptures are part of the Portrait Bench series from transport charity Sustrans, that installs the likenesses of local heroes, as voted for by residents, along new cycling routes. They're made from Corten steel which will gradually rust to a more organic appearance. ​
Alan Turing (1912-1954) cracked the German Enigma codes during WWII, helping the Allied victory. Today, Turing is known as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, and also an important gay icon. Sustrans is a charity that enables people to travel by foot, bike or public transport. It works with artists, schools and local communities to create and explore landmarks, environments and ideas that celebrate the surrounding areas.
 St Mary's Square, London
Timelines
Daniela Schönbächler
""Timelines" (2011) is a work of art by Daniela Schönbächler located in the Quandrant 3 walkway, a pedestrian walk that links Glasshouse Street and Sherwood Street, in the center of the West End of London between Piccadilly Circus and Regent Street. It consists of multiple layers of glass with  a sequential LED light composition and mirrors above. Schönbächler says:  ‘My intention is that 'Timelines' will evoke a deeply felt longing for a relationship to nature, common to all humankind, simulated by the use of ‘artificial’ elements. For me, the work represents the pursuit of a sense of integrity that the human condition has lost in relation to nature, yet the desire to gain this is ever-present in contemporary life."
​Daniela Schönbächler (born 1968 in Switzerland) is active in various disciplines such as installation, sculpture, photography and painting. Timelines was commissioned by The Crown Estate, managed by Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit founded by Vivien Lovell with a track record of curating and producing art of the highest quality in the public realm, and produced in collaboration with architects Dixon Jones.
33 Glasshouse St, Soho, London W1B 5RD, UK
The Flowering of the English Baroque
Glynn Williams
​“The flowering of the English baroque” is a memorial to Henry Purcell by the sculptor Glynn Williams. It is a bronze statue unveiled by HRH the Princess Margaret on 22 November 1995  to mark 300 years since the death of the composer. Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) was an English classical composer who was born and lived in the Westmisnter area of London and worked at Westminster Abbey. His legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers. Glynn Williams (born in 1939) is a British sculptor. Once an abstract artist, he has worked in the figurative tradition since the late 1970s. In 1963 he won the British Prix de Rome scholarship. In 1990 he became Head of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London, and then Head of the School of Fine Art from 1995 to 2010. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Art, the Royal Society of Sculptors and the RSA.
Lady Justice
Frederick William Pomeroy
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly known as the Old Bailey, is a court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court. The present Old Bailey building dates from 1902 but it was officially opened on 27 February 1907. On the dome above the court stands a bronze statue of Lady Justice, executed by the British sculptor F. W. Pomeroy Lady Justice is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems.  She holds a sword in her right hand and the scales of justice in her left. The statue is popularly blindfolded to show her impartiality, but in this case she is not because originally she wasn't and because her “maidenly form” is supposed to guarantee her ​impartiality. She stands upon a globe, for Justice straddles the world. 
Frederick William Pomeroy RA (1856 – 1924) was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works. He was one of the so-called New Sculptors identified by Edmund Gosse in 1894 – a group distinguished by a stylistic turn towards naturalism and their work in architectural sculpture.
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¤Other Pomeroy works in Ψ: Young Atlases in London
The Old Bailey, London EC4M 7EH, UK
The Gladstone Memorial
Hamo Thornycroft
Located on the Strand, the Gladstone Memorial is one of the more significant memorials in London. William Ewart Gladstone, (1809 –1898) was a British politician, serving as Prime Minister four separate times. Four allegorical figures around the base of the monument represent Brotherhood, Education, Inspiration and Courage. ​
Courage depicts a mother defending her child from danger. She has seized the neck of the marauding snake in one clenched fist, the other powerful hand holding the short curved sword with which she is about to strike off its head. She wears on her head a Heraclean lion’s head and skin, symbol of strength. The memorial was made by Sir William Hamo Thornycroft (1850 – 1925), an English sculptor responsible for some of London’s best known statues.
95 Aldwych, ​London WC2B 4JF, UK
​Reflection
Antony Gormley
"Reflection" (2001) is a sculpture by English artist Sir Antony Gormley cast in iron from his own body. The two life-size figures are located opposite each other inside and outside 350 Euston Road, Regent’s Place, a fully managed mixed use campus in London’s West End. Talking about Reflection II (a sister sculpture located in Spain), Gromley has said: “I am looking to concentrate a moment of being. My primary subject is my body: the only bit of the material world that I inhabit completely. The idea is to capture a moment of being. […] There is the Lacanian moment called the mirror stage in which the individual becomes aware of him or herself as an independent being through self recognition. […] Here is the human body at a moment of self possession which is both about realization and reflexivity mixed with a perceptual puzzle: whether the image that lies the other side of the glass is actually a material thing or a reflection; this only becomes clear when you, the viewer, have passed across the threshold."
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE (born 1950) is a British sculptor. In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Gormley has populated cities and coasts with his altered replicas and found innovative ways of placing his forms in architectural spaces.

​¤ Other work in Ψ: Quantum Cloud in London
350 Euston Rd,
London NW1 3JN, UK
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