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Issue 22 – April 2022

Thames River Works Edited by Shalini Le Gall and Justin McCann

Installation. About a dozen masted ships and sailboats hang from the ceiling of a white-walled gallery to create a continuous procession. Some of the sails seem darkened with age, and the cabin of one long boat is rusted. Vines hang down from the boats. — Installation view, Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing (dithered detail), 8 March–2 June 2019, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Digital image courtesy of the artist and Ikon Gallery. Photo: Stuart Whipps (all rights reserved).

INTRODUCTION

Introduction: “Watery Relations”

By Shalini Le Gall
and Justin McCann

ARTICLE

“The Surrounding Great Work”: Memory, Erasure, and Curating the Built Environment of the West India Docks, 1802–2022

By Aleema Gray
and Danielle Thom

ARTICLE

Ships and Souvenirs: Itineraries of the Golden Jubilee

By Shalini Le Gall

ARTICLE

Printed Ecologies: William Morris and the Rural Thames

By Sarah Mead Leonard

ARTICLE

“The River Seemed Almost Turned to Blood”: The Tooley Street Fire

By Nancy Rose Marshall

ARTICLE

Women in Whistler’s Images of Chelsea and the Thames

By Patricia de Montfort

ARTICLE

Whistler and Battersea: The Aesthetics of Erasure and Redevelopment

By Jon Newman

ARTICLE

“Over London at Night”: Gasworks, Ballooning, and the Visual Gas Field

Jennifer Tucker