London’s new 5‑mile art trail

The Line is a free public art walk in East London that runs between Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2, and it is getting fresh attention online as visitors share the route. (the-line.org) The trail follows waterways and the Greenwich Meridian across three boroughs — Newham, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich — and The Line says the full walk takes about four hours. (the-line.org) The project describes itself as London’s first dedicated public art walk, with an outdoor exhibition program that changes over time through loans, commissions, projects and events. (the-line.org) That means the route works less like a fixed museum collection and more like a moving exhibition spread across the Lea Navigation, Royal Docks and Greenwich Peninsula. (canalrivertrust.org.uk) The walk opened in 2015, and The Line marked its 10th anniversary in 2025 with a new site-specific sculpture by Rasheed Araeen during London Sculpture Week. (londonsculptureweek.org) Permanent or long-running landmarks on the route include Antony Gormley’s *Quantum Cloud* near the cable car crossing and Richard Wilson’s *A Slice of Reality* on Greenwich Peninsula. (londonxlondon.com) The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park end of the route now also sits beside newer East Bank artworks, including Michael Landy’s *Lemon Meringue* from 2024 and Lubna Chowdhary’s *Temporal Trace* from 2024. (queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk) The Line says the route is free, marked with blue and red vinyl wayfinding signs, and supported with a downloadable map and audio tours on Bloomberg Connects. (the-line.org) Access is not uniform along the whole trail: The Line says one section on the River Lea is not accessible for wheelchair users, and it publishes an alternative route on its map. (the-line.org) The result is a five-mile walk that packages sculpture, post-industrial riverside paths and newer cultural development into a single route — one that can be done in one trip or broken into sections on different days. (the-line.org)