Since 2004, Art on the Underground has commissioned artists to create covers for London Underground's pocket Tube map.[1] These free maps are one of the largest public art commissions in the UK.[2] Over 35 different designs have been produced, with designs from a wide variety of British and international artists.[3] Around 2 million maps are printed for each cover, down from a high of around 12 million in the early 2010s.[2][4] In 2014, The Guardian published a pictorial survey of the first 10 years' designs,[5] and The Londonist has a survey up to 2017.[6] Between 2016 and 2018, there were also a series of covers for Night Tube.[7]

Tube map covers

No Year Month Artist Title
1 2004 August Emma Kay You Are in London[8]
2 2005 June Gary Hume Untitled[9]
3 2006 February David Shrigley Untitled[10]
4 June Yinka Shonibare Global Underground Map[11]
5 2007 January Liam Gillick The Day Before (You Know What They'll Call It? They'll Call it the Tube)[12][13]
6 July Jeremy Deller and Paul Ryan Portrait of John Hough (TfL's longest serving member of staff - 45 years of service)[14][15]
7 2008 January Cornelia Parker Underground Abstract[16][17]
8 March Mark Wallinger Going Underground[18]
9 October Pae White ...fragment of a Magic Carpet, circa 1213[19]
10 2009 March Paul Noble Untitled[20]
11 September Richard Long Earth[21]
12 2010 May Barbara Kruger Untitled (Tube Map)[22][23]
13 2011 March Eva Rothschild Good Times[24]
14 August Michael Landy All My Lines in the Palm of Your Hand[25][26]
15 December Yayoi Kusama Polka Dots Festival[27]
16 2012 June Tracey Emin The Central Line[28][29]
17 December Sarah Morris Petrobas (Rio)[30]
18 2013 May Mona Hatoum London: The World[31]
19 December Imran Qureshi All Time Would Be Perpetual Spring[32]
20 2014 May Rachel Whiteread The Hole of London 2014[33][34]
21 December Daniel Buren From A Single One To Millions: Ink On Pape[35][36]
22 2015 May Pablo Bronstein Design for a magnificent London Underground Grand Pendulum in gilt bronze[37][38]
23 2016 January Tomma Abts Untitled[39]
24 June Hew Locke Tunnel Vision[40][41]
25 December Gillian Carnegie Metropolitan Diamonds[42][43]
26 2017 June Lily van der Stokker Out Next Stop[44]
27 2018 January Marc Camille Chaimowicz Untitled[45]
28 May Geta Brătescu Game of Forms[46][47]
29 December Linder The Bower of Bliss[48][49]
30 2019 June Laure Prouvost You are deeper than what you think[50][51]
31 December Bedwyr Williams Morden[52][53]
32 2020 May Elisabeth Wild Fantasías[54][55]
33 December Phyllida Barlow helter skelter[56]
34 2021 September Helen Cammock sit alongside and feel me breathe[57]
35 2022 January Larry Achiampong What I Hear I Keep[4]
36 May Joy Labinjo Twist Out[58]
37 November Do Ho Suh Routes/Roots: London[59]

Night Tube map covers

No Year Month Artist Title
1 2016 December Samara Scott Night Tube Map Commission[60]
2 2017 May Pio Abad Eddie[61]
3 December Marianna Simnett Wing-sleepers[62]
4 2018 May Marie Jacotey You in my bedroom[63]
5 December Jade Montserrat hand this piece to one Jacob Aston West (b. approx. 1941–43, Montserrat)[64][65]

References

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  56. ^ "helter skelter". Art on the Underground. December 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-23.((cite web)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  61. ^ "Eddie". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  62. ^ "Wing-sleepers". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  63. ^ "You in my bedroom". Art on the Underground. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
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