“Beyond the London Dome”

This poem by Anthony Lovell was inspired by “Come Home Again”, an illuminated choral sculpture by leading artist Es Devlin highlighting the 243 species on London’s priority list - moths, birds, beetles, wildflowers, fish and fungi - and which has been installed outside the Tate Modern opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral.

The large-scale public artwork, commissioned by Cartier, proposes that a first step towards protecting the biosphere is to pay detailed attention to its inhabitants: to observe and draw them, to learn their names and remember their stories.

The work provides a space for London-based choral groups of the diaspora to perform each evening at sunset within a sliced open scale model of the dome of St Paul’s, teeming with Es Devlin’s pencil drawings of each of the 243 species.

Open to the public from Wednesday, 21st September to Saturday, 1st October 2022 between 10am and 10pm. Tate Modern Garden, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, U.K.

To learn more about it, please visit the Cartier page

Articles of interest: Wallpaper, AnotherMag, New York Times