Lay Lines - Bobby Lloyd Studio

In Winter 2018 Lay Lines was built on the Thames Path between O2 and Greenwich. A 32 piece sculpture, it came about following a commission to make a public artwork that reflected the telecommunications industry on the site at Enderby Wharf dating back to the 1800's.

The first telegraph cable was laid on the short stretch of the English Channel between Dover and Calais in 1857. This is a cross section of the cable which provided the concept for the adjacent multi-piece sculpture.

This is the cross section of a telephone cable from 1970. It inspired the making of a more formal arrangement.

This fibre optic cable (2018) represents contemporary communications - with over 95 percent of all our worldwide communications taking place through cables laid on the seabed (rather than satellite).