Tottenham Court Road Underground Station Mosaic Study: Running Man, 1983

with Flowers East, London, 2005

London, Flowers, Eduardo Paolozzi Projects 1975-2000, 2005 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 30);
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Colourful Lives of Artists, 30 April – 30 June 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 21 April – 28 June 2015;
London, East Wing Galleries, Somerset House, Out There: Our Post-War British Art, 3 February – 10 April 2016;
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair Museum Partner, Ten Years – A Century of Art, 18 – 22 January 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, In Their Own Words: Artists’ Voices from The Ingram Collection, 20 May – 30 July 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 18 July 2018;
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, Metropolis, 12 February – 23 April 2019;
London, Royal Society of Sculptors, Parallel Lines: Sculpture and Drawing, 13 May – 13 July 2019;
Oxford, Brasenose College, 1 October 2019 – 30 September 2020

Eduardo Paolozzi’s decorations for Tottenham Court Road tube station are one of his best known commissions. In the early 1980s one thousand square metres of mosaic tiles were installed throughout the station. They are an excellent example of his creativity and in particular of how he was able to reinvigorate images drawn from comics, design and advertising and place them back in the public domain. Paolozzi said of this project: “My ‘alphabet’ of images for Tottenham Court Road reflects my interpretation of the past, present and future of the area.”