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The Navigators
The Navigators
The Navigators
The Navigators
The Navigators
The Navigators
The Navigators
The Navigators

© the artist. Image credit: Andy Smith / Art UK

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The Navigators' takes the form of a fantastical anthropomorphic ship. The prow is a prognathic male head with set back eyes, a long proboscis-like nose, fleshy lips, the upper covered in fish scales, the lower projecting dramatically. On each side of the hull are a paddlewheel and three oars whose blades are pierced with holes. Two masts shoot up at steep diagonal angles and support two forward-projecting harpoons. Before the masts is a cluster of ship’s chimneystacks. On the poop deck, two heads wearing admiral hats that metamorphose into umbrellas at the back represent perhaps the navigators themselves. The navigators are equipped with a combined telescope and sextant and an armillary sphere. The rear of the poop deck rises up finlike and turns finally into a horn.
Title

The Navigators

Date

1987

Medium

bronze, welded steel, found objects, motors, pumps & polished granite

Accession number

SE1_AS_S105

Acquisition method

commissioned by St Martin’s Property Corporation

Work type

Water fountain, trough or pump

Owner

Hay’s Galleria

Custodian

Hay’s Galleria

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

31st July 1987

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

piazza opening times

Inscription description

on brass plaques on the upper surface of the basin rim, left and right (west and east): THE NAVIGATORS / DAVID KEMP / 1987; front (north): ALL PROCEEDS COLLECTED / FROM THIS WATER FEATURE / DONATED TO CHARITY

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Located at

Tooley Street, Bermondsey

SE1 2HD

Located at Hay’s Galleria, in the centre of the glass-roofed piazza.