A number of artists were commissioned to produce images of the Thames Pageant which celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2012, and others did work off their own bat. As a lot of the pageant took place in torrential rain, this turned out to be a more onerous task than perhaps they had imagined, although the weather did not put off the large crowds which turned out to watch what was probably the largest flotilla ever to sail the Thames. About fifty works were put on show at the Pump Room gallery in Battersea Park, which is a listed Victorian industrial building owned and run by Southwark Council. It was interesting to see what so many different (nearly all professional) artists had made of the same subject - judge for yourself from the selection below.
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| The Pump Room Gallery |
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| David Hockney's iPad sketch |
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This was made from objects from charity shops and skips.
The first "ship" represents the golden barge which carried the Queen and the Duke of Edinbugh |
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