Celebrating the Jubilee Line

Last year, to mark the 30th anniversary of that "grey" line running from Stanmore to Stratford, Art on the Underground put together an exhibition that included writing by Goldsmiths MFA students, "exploring time and its value" -

Julia Calver looked over passengers’ shoulders and read lines from their books. She imagined the objects from these passages speeding along the Jubilee line as though it were a wormhole for time travel through outer space.

Patrick Coyle scrambled familiar London Underground announcements and instructions, spelling out improbable stories and making surprising associations.

Cressida Kocienski traced the route of the Jubilee line above ground on foot, photographing the objects she found along the way, which she has described as imaginary instruments for measuring time. For further visit Cressida's blog

Claire Nichols focused on architectural details and signs at London Bridge Underground station. Her drawings transfer these shapes in space into shapes on paper.

Tamarin Norwood watched passengers passing time on their journeys and rewrote their actions as suggestions for other commuters.

Gemma Sharpe made a number of night-time journeys from London Bridge station after the last Tube. Her text takes the form of a correspondence in which she meditates on the images, thoughts, movements and sounds evoked through such journeys.

It was put together in a leaflet, Timepieces, that was handed out to passengers.

Also given out was a print by Richard Long - One Thing Leads to Another, Everything is Connected,

which gave the title of an exhibition at City Hall of work by Nadia Bettega, John Gerrard, Dryden Goodwin, Richard Long, Daria Martin, Matt Stokes, Goldsmiths MFA Art Writing students, investigating ideas such as time, economics, and travel, and our changing relationship with them over the last 30 years.

At Canary Wharf, John Gerrard's Oil Stick Work showed a wall being painted at the rate of one square metre a day

so that in 2038 the whole building will be a black silhouette.

Daria Martin juxtaposed passengers' responses to a survey of daydreams and photos of objects from the Freud Museum.

Four podcasts of talks associated with the exhibition, London Journeys in time and London Journeys Underground, are available.