As the world's eyes are on Liverpool for Eurovision 2023, we would like to highlight a selection of the incredible artworks on the city's streets. With its iconic heroes and landmarks, Liverpool has been welcoming people for generations. Take a look around and find out why the world has come to this great city.
Mother and Child 1999
Terry McDonald
Fibreglass & resin
H 360 cm
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Sea Piece 1950
Charles Thomas Wheeler (1892–1974) and John Galizia (active 1930–1984)
Bronze & marble
H 180 x W 200 x D 200 cm
The Port Sunlight Museum
Talking 2017
Michael Condron (b.1972)
Stainless steel
H 250 x W 150 x D 150 cm
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Susan Meyerhoff Sharples (b.1951)
Metal & wood
H 112 cm
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
The Great Escape 2000
Edward Cronshaw (b.1959) and Morris Singer Art Foundry Ltd (founded 1927)
Bronze
H 457 cm
Edmund Charles Thompson (1898–1961) and George Thomas Capstick (1854–1964)
Portland stone
H 51 x W 127 cm
Brotherly Love 1892
William Douglas Caröe (1857–1938) and Thomas Stirling Lee (1857–1916) and Conrad Bührer (c.1852–1937) and J. Starkie Gardner Ltd (active 1884–1976)
Bronze
Andy Plant (b.1959)
Relief of the Siege of Mafeking c.1900
unknown artist
Sandstone & wood
H 75 x W 75 x D 75 cm
The Port Sunlight Museum
Yellow Submarine c.1966
Arthur Johnson (c.1939–2019)
Joanne Risley (b.1965) and Barry Callaghan (b.1960)
Metal
H 206 cm
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
unknown artist
Wood & stone
H 43 x W 43 x D 43 cm
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Joanne Risley (b.1965) and Barry Callaghan (b.1960)
Metal
H 193 cm
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
William Goscombe John (1860–1952) and Arthur Brian Burton (1860–1933)
Bronze & granite
H 900 x W 2400 x D 2400 cm
The Port Sunlight Museum
Waiting: The Monument to the Liverpool Working Horse 2010 or before
Judy Boyt (b.1954)
Bronze
H 180 cm
Museum of Liverpool
Carole Beavis (b.1963)
Willow
H 200 x W 200 x D 150 cm
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Legacy Sculpture: The Crossing 2001
Mark DeGraffenried (active from 1993) and Neil Hadlock (b.1944) and Taylor Hadlock and Toledo Bronzeworks (active 2001)
Bronze
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Biophilia 2010
Michael Condron (b.1972)
Stainless steel, resin & found objects
H 120 x W 120 x D 120 cm
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Leverhulme Memorial 1930
William Reid Dick (1878–1961)
Granite & bronze
H 600 x W 1100 x D 1100 cm
The Port Sunlight Museum
Pooley Gates 1840s or 1850s
Henry Pooley & Son (active 1840s or 1850s) and John Cunningham (active 1840s or 1850s)
Cast iron
Seven Gateways to the Hamilton Square Quarter (6) 1996–1997
CAMM Design
Steel, cedar & copper
H 390 cm
Captain James Cook (1728–1779)
Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (1858–1919) and E. Gruet Jeune (active 1890s–1910)
Bronze
H 214 cm
Memorial to Captain Noel Chavasse (1884–1917), VC and Bar MC (The Liverpool Heroes Memorial) 2008
Tom Murphy (b.1949)
Bronze
Monument to the World Boy Scout Jamboree 1931
Edward Carter Preston (1885–1965)
Stone
H 1500 x W 100 x D 80 cm
Woman Instructing Small Children and Man Teaching a Youth (Reliefs)
Giovanni Fontana (c.1821–1893)
Stone
H 100 x W 60 x D 10 cm
Tombs of Lord Leverhulme and His Wife 1905–1925
William Goscombe John (1860–1952) and William Owen (1846–1910) and Segar Owen (1874–1929)
Bronze & black marble
Seven Gateways to the Hamilton Square Quarter (2) 1996–1997
CAMM Design
Steel, cedar & copper
H 390 cm
Children Fighting, Baby in a Pram, Children Playing Reliefs 1956
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) and Morris Singer Art Foundry Ltd (founded 1927)
Ciment Fondu
H 101 x W 183 cm
Birkenhead Park Grand Entrance Triumphal Arch 1845–1847
Lewis Hornblower (1823–1879) and Joseph Paxton (1803–1865) and John and William Walker (active 1845–1847)
Ashlar stone
H 1900 x W 3800 x D 1000 cm
Edmund Charles Thompson (1898–1961) and George Thomas Capstick (1854–1964)
Portland stone
H 51 x W 127 cm
Piazza Waterfall (Bucket Fountain)
Richard Huws (1902–1980) and Cammell Laird (founded 1828)
Bronze, stainless steel & black tiles
Albert Bruce-Joy (1842–1924) and R. Masefield & Co.
Bronze, granite & stone
H 320 x W 110 x D 110 cm
Nelson Monument 1813
Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777–1862) and Richard Westmacott II (1775–1856)
Granite, Westmorland marble, iron & bronze
H 430 cm
Boer War Memorial 1904
J. Whitehead & Sons Ltd (active 1880–1985)
Darley Dale stone, Sicilian marble & coated bronze
H 410 cm
Three Angels 1935–1936
George Herbert Tyson Smith (1883–1972) and F. X. Velarde (1897–1960)
Concrete
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (1858–1919) and E. Gruet Jeune (active 1890s–1910)
Bronze
H 212 cm
Reconciliation 1990
Stephen Broadbent (b.1961) and John Varley (Iron Founders) Ltd
Cast iron
H 406 cm
Liverpool Resurgent 1956
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) and Morris Singer Art Foundry Ltd (founded 1927)
Bronze
H 540 cm
American Eagle after 2003
unknown artist
Memorial to William Poulsom (1829–1903), Councillor, Alderman and Mayor of Bootle (1880 & 1881) 1906
unknown artist
Portland stone
William Goscombe John (1860–1952) and A. B. Burton (active 1874–1939)
Bronze & granite
H 488 cm
News Room War Memorial, Mother and Child, and Father and Child 1924
Joseph Phillips (b.c.1866) and Siegfried Charoux (1896–1967) and George Herbert Tyson Smith (1883–1972)
Bronze & Portland stone
H 625 x W 430 cm
The Steble Fountain 1879
Paul Liénard (1849–1900) and W. T. Allen & Co. (active 1881–1955)
Cast iron & bronze
H 700 x W 910 x D 910 cm
Replica Early Victorian Submarine 1997–2021
Curtis Painting Group and AMRC Training College Trainees at Camel Laird and Maritime and Engineering College North West Students
Iron, wood & brass
H 300 x W 1400 x D 300 cm
Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) 1897
Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (1858–1919) and E. Gruet Jeune (active 1890s–1910)
Bronze
H 208 cm
New Brighton War Memorial 1917
William Birnie Rhind (1853–1933) and Frank Gatley Briggs (1852–1921) and Arnold Thornely (1870–1953)
Portland stone
Saint Christopher Carrying Christ as a Young Boy 1972
Robert Brumby (b.1934)
Resin and fibreglass with bronze finish
H 304.8 x W 609.6 cm
unknown artist
Charles John Allen (1862–1956) and Frederick Moore Simpson (1855–1928) and A. B. Burton (active 1874–1939) and W. Thornton and Sons
Portland stone, bronze, lead & gold mosaic
H 1830 x W 2740 x D 2740 cm
Reliefs over the Windows and Caryatids Supporting the Portico Entablature 1871
James Murdoch Hay (1823–1915) and Joseph Rogerson (b.1832) and Alexander Bleakley & Son (active 1871)
York stone
H 180 x W 120 cm
Peace and Harmony (The John Lennon Peace Monument) 2010
Lauren Voiers and Lyle London
Painted metal & glass
H 549 cm
Federation House Concrete Reliefs c.1965–1966
William Mitchell (1925–2020) and Gilling Dod Architects
Concrete
Birkenhead War Memorial (The Cenotaph)
George Herbert Tyson Smith (1883–1972) and Lionel Bailey Budden (1877–1956) and Joseph Davies (active 1965) and H. A. Clegg and Sons
Portland stone, green Westmoreland stone & Westmoreland slate
H 900 x W 600 x D 550 cm
Lighting Shaft (Monument to the Chester Tunnel) 1933–1934
Herbert James Rowse (1887–1963) and John Stubbs & Sons (active 1933) and H. J. Lloyd (active 1933) and McAlpine & Sons (active 1933)
Reinforced concrete, ashlar, polished black granite, gilded bronze & glass
H 1830 cm
Seven Gateways to the Hamilton Square Quarter (3) 1996–1997
CAMM Design
Steel, cedar & copper
H 390 cm
Andy Edwards (b.1964) and Emma Rodgers (b.1974)
Bronze
H 175 x W 180 cm
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) (Pool of Life) 1987
Laurence Sidorczuk (b.1956) and Johnathon Drabkin
Bronze (original) & plaster painted bronze (replacement)
Johnnie Walker (1896–1944), DSO 1998
Tom Murphy (b.1949)
Connections – Face of Liverpool 2006
Stephen Broadbent (b.1961) and Smiling Wolf
Steel, concrete, timber & glass
William Rathbone (1787–1868) 1876
John Henry Foley (1818–1874) and Thomas Brock (1847–1922) and Cox & Son (active 1838–1881)
Sicilian marble, bronze, Cornish granite & Aberdeen granite
H 290 cm
unknown artist
Commemoration Stone for Gabriel Coury (1896–1956), VC
unknown artist
Seven Gateways to the Hamilton Square Quarter (5) 1996–1997
CAMM Design
Steel, cedar & copper
H 390 cm
Ray + Julie 1995
Alan Dunn (b.1967) and Brigitte Jurack (b.1962) and Andrew Brooks
Relief Signifying Speed 1932–1934
Herbert James Rowse (1887–1963) and Edmund Charles Thompson (1898–1961) and George Thomas Capstick (1854–1964)
Portland stone
H 600 cm
The Seed 2002
Stephen Broadbent (b.1961)
Cast aluminium, copper leaf & an integrated luminaire
H 120 cm
Bootle War Memorial 1922
Hubert Ernest Bulmer (1874–1963) (attributed to) and Joseph Hermon Cawthra (1886–1971) and H. A. Clegg and Sons and Giovanni Mario Manenti (1885–1954)
Forest of Dean sandstone & bronze
H 720 cm
George Edward Wade (1853–1933) and J. W. Singer & Sons (founded 1847) and G. Woods and Son of Bootle
Bronze & stone
H 250 cm
Penny Lane WonderWall 2010 & 2015
Ian Town and Ejecto
George Herbert Tyson Smith (1883–1972) and Stanley Harold Smith and Charles Frederick Blythin
Concrete, Portland stone, glass & bronze
Eros Fountain 1932
Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934) and A. B. Burton (active 1874–1939)
Bronze & aluminium
H 188 cm
Birkenhead Institute Old Boys War Memorial
Jim Whelan (b.1966) and David S. W. Jones (1930–2017) and Castle Fine Arts
Bronze, stone & brick
Medallion Relief Bust of Sir Archibald Salvidge 1950–1951
Edward Carter Preston (1885–1965)
Dark green Westmoreland stone
H 65 x W 65 cm