Mare Street - Undershaft, London, UK - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This "art" is of a sapling rising from the ground being supported by a stake with a couple of straps holding it in place. A plaque at the base of the sculpture tells us:

Mare Street E8
Planted 2005
Destroyed 2005

Mare Street is in Hacney a London Borough to the east of this location. Furtunately, another plaque that is nearby tells us a bit more:

Mare Street, E8 2009
Bronze
165.1 x 29.9 x 29.2 cm
Edition 1 of 3
Edition of 3 + 2 APS

Mare Street, E8 belongs to Keith Coventry's "Broken Trees" series of bronze casts made from saplings growing out of the concrete pavements around East London. The broken, stunted trunks have become synonymous with the post-was urban landscape, and are remnants of an act of vandalism; recalling trees that are no longer there. The damaged fragments of public spaces highlight the gap between the vision of a utopian ideal and the reality of urban experience, and between natural and the built environments.

The Pace Gallery website tells us about the sculptor:

Keith Coventry was born in Burnley in 1958 and lives and works in London. He attended Brighton Polytechnic 1978– 81 and Chelsea School of Art London 1981– 82. He was featured in the seminal exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1997 and in 2006, he received a mid-career retrospective at Glasgow's Tramway (Art Centre). He was also a co-founder and curator of City Racing, an influential not-for-profit gallery in Kennington, South London from 1988-98.

His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and is included in collections worldwide, including the British Council; Tate Modern; Arts Council of England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010 Coventry was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize.

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