Darren Almond’s three artworks commissioned for the new Bond Street Elizabeth line station in London.

The works commissionned by Crossrail’s Art Programme can be found on the ceiling and around the western ticket hall of the Elizabeth line station. ‘Horizon Line’, ‘Shadow Line’ and ‘Time Line’ resemble the embossed metal nameplates that were affixed to early British locomotives and were made by the same heritage sign company that made many of the boilerplates for locomotives of the past. ‘Horizon Line’ consists of 144 individual hand-polished tiles echoing paths of travellers as they descend underground whilst ‘Shadow Line’ and ‘Time Line’ are train boiler plates bearing poetic phrases ‘REFLECT FROM YOUR SHADOW’ and ‘FROM UNDER THE GLACIER’ respectively.

Darren Almond sais: “Before you’ve even physically begun a journey you are already thinking in a numerical language: the first question we all ask ourselves is, ‘What time is the train?’ So it seemed appropriate to mark the starting point of the journey with a work engaged in a similar language.”