London 1666
Fabulous sculptural installation on the River Thames near Blackfriars as part of the London Fire 350 celebrations. It was a wonderful wooden model of what London looked like at the time of the Great Fire in 1666 based on the 1616 Visscher print. I passed it each day on the Thames Clipper and saw it grow over the course of a week. It was developed by a company called Artichoke. The idea was that it was burnt as part of the celebrations of the fire. I watched the video of it burning at it was spectacular and looked very much like the paintings of the event however it seemed such a shame to destroy such a beautiful object. Burnt on 4 September 2016 Reviews Times Guardian Evening Standard