Royal Dock Originals
Royal Docks Originals: new public artwork for Silvertown Way underpass
For Royal Docks Originals 2027, we are showing little love to the pedestrian Silvertown Way underpass between Caxton St North and Peto St North with a brand-new artwork made specially for the area.
The project will be part of the Royal Docks Corridor improvements on Silvertown Way.
This award winning initiative, features the introduction of pedestrian-friendly zones, cycle tracks, and one of the UK’s longest rain gardens. The underpass will be resurfaced, have new lighting and safety measures installed as well as a newly commissioned artwork made with, and for, the community that use it.
Ways to get involved
During autumn 2026, Culture Within Newham and the Royal Docks Team will work with local communities to gather thoughts, ideas and aspirations for this area, exploring what a new artwork could look like, involve and represent. The engagement will help shape a call-out to artists in early 2027, with the ambition of launching the new artwork as part of the Royal Docks Originals 2027 festival.
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Public artworks in the Royal Docks
This new underpass commission continues the Docks Open Art Series of public art, bringing creativity to public spaces across the area, and bookends the Royal Docks Corridor works with Gaurab Thakali’s painted mural A Garden of Community, located outside Thames Barrier Park.
For RDO25 we commissioned Graphic Rewilding's large-scale mural Blue Sunset, Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE's Royal Reflections & Sweet Hope neon installation, Luke Gray's Threads of Arrival (installed in October 2026) and Joy Yamusangie’s The Fish and The Mermaid (scheduled for installation in Spring 2027). These works were curated and co-produced with Hive Curates.
In Royal Victoria, the Docks Open Art Series sits alongside works in The Line’s curated series featuring Bird Boy (without a tail) by Laura Ford, Types of Happiness by Yinka Ilori and In Between by Helene Amouzou.
Together, this growing collection of public art encourages us to explore the Royal Docks from new perspectives, celebrating its people, heritage and ongoing transformation into London's Cultural Engine.
