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The navigators

By David Kemp 2006

David Kemp

Dimensions
20,000cm x 15,000cm x 14,000cm

Courtesy of
St Martins (London Bridge) Develpment Corporation

The Navigators are high but not dry in a pond in a galleria that was once a wharf in the pool of London. This large sculture represents the ships, the monsters and the men that drove them, and is animated by a bizarre collection of moving parts, pumps and water features.
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