Between the late 1940s and 1965, the London County Council (the LCC) installed artworks in parks, schools, colleges and housing estates, which became known as its ‘patronage of the arts programme’. 

This talk, delivered by Dr. Rosamund Lily West, will concentrate on the LCC’s housing estates with sculptures of people to examine why the LCC, tasked with an immense housing shortage after the war, installed sculptures of residents on housing estates.

Franta Belsky, The Lesson, installed on the Avebury estate in 1959 © The London Archives