In the heart of the City’s financial district, the entrance hall of 100 Bishopsgate has been transformed. A striking new installation, Glassed in Dreams, now stands as a symbol to the power of female creativity. The site-specific work, presented by Brookfield Properties and The Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA), is part of a broader commitment to amplifying the voices of women in sculpture and curation.
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The commission was awarded following a widely anticipated open call for female artists and curators to respond to the space. The result: three large-scale glass sculptures—NEST (II), BODIES (I, II), and CORDS (VI, VII, VIII, IX)—created by the internationally renowned conceptual artist Gabriele Beveridge and curated by Vassiliki Tzanakou. The works, ethereal yet commanding, interact with the architecture of the building, inviting reflection on themes of perception, existence, and the interplay between the individual and the collective.
The selection process was rigorous. Forty artists submitted proposals inspired by George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous, a seminal meditation on urban life and the delicate tension between solitude and community. Alongside Beveridge’s sculptures, three shortlisted entries—by Helen Barff, Helena Pritchard and Alice Sheppard—are displayed at Brookfield Properties’ 30 Fenchurch Street in an accompanying exhibition, Inside the Studio: How Artists Make Work.
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A distinguished panel—including Deborah Smith, Jo Baring, Rana Begum, Sigrid Kirk and Saff Williams—selected the final works. Their aim was clear: to find pieces that would resonate with the structural elegance of 100 Bishopsgate while enriching the public’s interaction with art in a shared urban environment. The initiative, a collaboration between Brookfield Properties and AWITA, is part of a wider effort to increase visibility for female sculptors and curators—an effort underscored by statistics from ArtUK, which found that in London, 85 per cent of known public sculptures are by men, with just 13 per cent attributed to women.
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This is not the first time Brookfield Properties and AWITA have sought to challenge those numbers. Their inaugural collaboration, Beyond the Matrix, unfolded at 100 Bishopsgate last year, first with sculptor Jodie Carey and curator Eve Miller (March–September 2024), and later with artist Amelia Bowles and curator Millie Jason Foster (September 2024–February 2025).
With over three decades of experience in integrating art into the built environment, Brookfield Properties commissioned The Art of the Workplace in 2022, a pioneering report in collaboration with The School of Life. Its findings reinforced what many in the art world have long understood: that cultural engagement in workspaces enhances well-being and fosters creative thinking.
100 Bishopsgate is one of many premier developments under Brookfield Properties’ management in London, but here, art is more than a decorative flourish. It is an invitation—an encouragement to pause, to observe, to consider. In a space that might otherwise be a thoroughfare, Beveridge’s sculptures encourage a moment of reflection.
Both Glassed in Dreams at 100 Bishopsgate and Inside the Studio at 30 Fenchurch Street are free and open to the public, Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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