Acrobat Art

At Chelsea And Westminster Hospital.

One of the six courtyards of the Chelsea hospital mall is dominated by a boldly coloured engineering wonder. This gigantic finely balanced structure is the show-piece of the hospital collection, costing £100,000. The Acrobat is a colossal piece of curved profiled steel by Allen Jones. At 60 feet tall it is the largest indoor sculpture in Europe, for which the design had to be agreed before the hospital was finished because its base is incorporated into the foundations.