What’s in your DNA?
Public art
Barbican Centre, London
2015
Between 29 June – 6 September 2015, 21 DNA-inspired double helix sculptures designed by some of the biggest names in art and design including Ai Weiwei and Zaha Hadid, took to the streets of London, creating Cancer Research UK’s very first art trail in some of the capital’s most iconic locations.
DNA double helix structure
The trail has now come to an end, and the sculptures have been auctioned, raising £360,000 towards the completion of the Francis Crick Institute, an exciting new biomedical research facility being built in London’s King’s Cross. The institute is named after Francis Crick, the British scientist who co-discovered the DNA double helix in 1953.
List of artists/designers and sculpture locations:
1 & 2 Ai WeiWei - Christie’s window, 85 Old Brompton Rd, SW7 3LD and Darren Baker Gallery window, 81 Charlotte Street, W1T 4PP
3. Andrew Logan - Festival Gardens, St Paul's, EC4M 8AD
4. Aston Martin - Cardinal Place window, 80 Victoria Street, SW1E 5JL
5. Ben Shine - St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, Euston Road, NW1 2AR
6. Chris and Xand van Tulleken - Victoria Station, near WH Smith SW1E 5ND
7. Darren Baker - Trafalgar Square, WC2H 0HE
8. Guy Portelli - Royal Albert Hall, South Steps, SW7 2AP
9. Ian Callum, Director of Design, Jaguar - South Kensington Station, Pelham Street, SW7 2NB
10. Jane Morgan – Coutts window, The Strand,sWC2Ro0QS
11. Leyla Aliyeva - King's Cross Station, near Leon, N1C 4TB
12. Mayor of Westminster - Great George Street, outside No. 10, SW1P 3AE
13. Michael Howells – Top of South Molton Street, Bond Street
14. Nick Gentry - Barbican Centre, Foyer of Cinema 2 & 3, Beech Street, EC2Y 8DS
15. Orla Kiely - Dovehouse Green, King's Road, SW3 5UF
16. Pilar Enrich - Trafalgar Square, WC2H 0HE
17. Ross Brawn - Peter's Hill, St Paul's, EC4V 5EY
18. Ted Baker - Broadwick Street, W1F 9PE
19. Thierry Noir - Duke of York Square, King's Road, SW3 4LY
20. Tim Ashley - Waterloo Station, outside M&S, SE1 8SW
21. Zaha Hadid - Somerset House, WC2R 1LA
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