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St. Pancras Wires – one of the country’s most ambitious public art programmes.

St. Pancras Wires is one of the country’s most ambitious public art programmes. A new work is commissioned every year to suspend from St. Pancras International’s roof to be seen by a million UK and international travellers every week.

The artwork is chosen by a panel who seek the submission that is most inspired by the station, its beauty and grandeur, and the history and architecture of the station.

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Tracey Emin’s ‘I Want My Time With You’

The Royal Academy of Arts and London St. Pancras Highspeed revealed a major site-specific installation, I Want My Time With You in 2018, by Royal Academician Tracey Emin.

Depicting the words, ‘I Want My Time With You’ in Emin’s signature handwriting, the light installation is suspended above the Grand Terrace beneath the DENT London clock, hanging on wires from the station’s Grade 1 listed Barlow shed roof. At 20 meters long, the artwork is the largest text piece ever made by the artist.

Tracey Emin CBE RA said: ‘I want my time with you. I cannot think of anything more romantic than being met by someone I love at a train station and as they put their arms around me, I hear them say ‘I want my time with you’. It is also a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London’.

Past and present major artwork installations

Shezad Dawood launches HMS Alice Liddell
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The artist brings together sculpture and technology at St. Pancras, come visit it!

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Tracey Emin’s ‘I Want My Time With You’: Here til 2020
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It's official - Tracey Emin's Terrace Wires 'I Want My Time With You' light installation has a little more time with us...

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Shezad Dawood to create art installation at St. Pancras
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We're excited to announce St. Pancras International's brand-new art initiative, St. Pancras Wires.

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2018: I Want My Time With You
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The Royal Academy of Arts and HS1 Ltd. has revealed a major site-specific installation, I Want My Time With You, 2018, by Royal Academician Tracey Emin for Terrace Wires, the station’s public commissioning programme for new artwork by leading international artists.

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2017: The Interpretation of Movement
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2017's art project was The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue), by Royal Academician Conrad Shawcross.

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2016: Thought of Train of Thought
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The 2016 artwork was by designer and Royal Academician Ron Arad. His installation, Thought of Train of Thought, was an 18-metre-long twisted blade that rotated slowly to create an optical illusion of horizontal, train-like movement.

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2015: One More Time
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Cornelia Parker’s work, One More Time, in 2015, was a working replica of the station’s DENT London clock. Reversed out in black and silver, it became reminiscent of a photographic negative. The black clock was suspended 16 metres in front of the original, so for those alighting from the trains the original face will gradually appear eclipsed.

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2014: Chromolocomotion
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In April 2014, we launched the second sculpture of the Terrace Wires series at St Pancras International, Chromolocomotion by David Batchelor. The colourful artwork was unlike anything ever seen at St Pancras International bathing the Grand Terrace in a Kaleidoscope of colour.

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2013: Cloud : Meteoros
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Cloud : Meteoros was the first piece of public art to fill the momentous space left by Olympic Rings. Designed by celebrated sculptor and British-born artist Lucy Orta and her husband Jorge, the piece was suspended above the vast Grand Terrace for six months in 2013.

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WELCOME TO LONDON ST. PANCRAS HIGHSPEED

Previously known as High Speed 1, London St. Pancras Highspeed is the new online home of St. Pancras International, Stratford International, Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International.

This is more than just a new look. Whether you’re visiting London, commuting to or from Kent, planning a trip to Europe or exploring St. Pancras International, it’s all here.