If public art is a cool way of starting conversations, Central London is becoming quite the chatterbox. From Ian Davenport’s Poured Lines (the U.K.’s largest outdoor painting) under a bridge in Southwark to the merry-go-round of artwork on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and the huge digital art screens in Tottenham Court Road, the place is turning into a buzzing, busy art walk. Relatively new to the chat is The Artist’s Garden. Opened in 2021 in a blank space above the Temple underground station, the Garden is a slab of prime real estate that fits naturally into a stroll along the River Thames. Entrance is free and, most importantly of all, The Artist’s Garden is the world’s only public art garden focused on work by women.

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The Garden was inaugurated with London artist Lakwena’s dizzyingly colorful Back In the Air, a mosaic that covered the area’s entire 1,400 square meterage. Through the Cosmic Allotment followed in 2022, Tony Heywood and Alison Condie’s collection of greenhouses containing psychedelic sculptural shapes. For the following year, installation artist Holly Hendry created Slackwater, a huge tangle of metal pipes........

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