About this Event
A Taste of Sculpture in the City
Hosted by Artistic Director of Sculpture in the City & LACUNA Founding Director, Stella Ioannou, with special guest Co-Founder of Bompas & Parr, Sam Bompas
Join Sculpture in the City’s Artistic Director and LACUNA Founding Director, Stella Ioannou, for another Taste of Sculpture in the City where guests will explore the current works on display in Sculpture in the City.
Following the walking tour, guests will be invited to Bar Fogo, Bishopsgate (formerly Fino at Fazenda), where they will be offered complimentary canapés inspired by a selection of the sculptures.
A Taste of Sculpture in the City welcomes special guest, Sam Bompas, Co-Founder of Bompas & Parr – a creative studio that cultivates culture and is globally recognised as the leading experts in multisensory experience design, achieving international prominence in the realms of food and drink.
The tasting session invites guests to discuss what parallels can be drawn from the eye to the taste bud, whilst learning more about the history of the ingredients served.
A Taste of Sculpture in the City returns as part of the London Sculpture Week programme for 2026 (19th – 27th September).
Launched in 2022, London Sculpture Week brings together five leading London cultural initiatives — East Bank, Frieze Sculpture, Fourth Plinth, Sculpture in the City and The Line — for a citywide celebration of public art.
Each year in late September, the programme brings together tours, performances, talks and other events, exploring how sculpture connects people, place and public life — how it speaks, remembers, protests, plays and dreams.
Across the city, London Sculpture Week offers new ways to encounter sculpture – encouraging audiences to move through London, look more closely at their surroundings and experience familiar places differently.
Date & Time: Saturday 19 September 2026
11.00am-2.00pm (11.00am-12.00pm Walking Tour, 12.15pm-2.00pm Tasting).
Duration: 1hr walking tour followed by a 1hr ¾ tasting & talk.
Location:
Starting: Saint Botolph without-Bishopsgate Churchyard, EC2M 3TL
End: Bar Fogo, 100 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 1GT
Key Information:
· Please ensure you arrive promptly as the tour will not be able to wait for latecomers.
· Complimentary canapés and drinks inspired by the artworks in Sculpture in the City will be served.
· Each canapé is different and therefore regretfully we cannot accommodate for all dietary requirements. We do note that all food served is Halal.
· Photography will be taking place at this event. Should you not wish to be snapped, please inform a member of the team during the event.
Should you have any questions, or access needs you would like to share with the team, please email [email protected]
A Taste of Sculpture in the City is kindly supported by activation partner Eastern City and curated & produced by LACUNA.
Sculpture in the City
Sculpture in the City is an annual sculpture park that uses the urban realm as a rotating gallery space. The City of London alongside LACUNA, in partnership with property owners and businesses, have unveiled a new selection of artworks by internationally acclaimed and emerging artists each year. World-class contemporary sculpture complements the unique architectural quality of the area and engages the passers-by, who range from local workers to architectural tourists and other visitors, animating one of the most dynamic parts of the City of London.
The project started in 2010 as a public realm activation project for the area of St Helen’s and Undershaft which resulted in an exhibition of just four artworks in June 2011, Sculpture in the City has shown a total of 165 artworks by 140 artists to date.
Learn more at sculptureinthecity.org.uk
LACUNA
LACUNA is a leading cultural studio realising contemporary art and events in urban spaces and local communities.
We define public spaces which offer unique cultural encounters and build new communities.
We collaborate with urban leaders and collectives, decision makers and creative visionaries that need to engage people and places.
Stella Ioannou Hon FRIBA, Founding Director of LACUNA, launched LACUNA in 2010 to realise visionary public art projects and events. Her established relationships with London’s business and arts communities enrich her curatorial and leadership roles and contribute to LACUNA's growing success. Stella is Artistic Director of Sculpture in the City (since 2011), having delivered 162 artworks by 137 artists to date. Led by Stella, LACUNA has delivered the ambitious public art programme of permanent and rotational art commissions at Paddington Square; and more recently has delivered 3 new artworks at 40 Leadenhall, as part of the public art programme the team curated for this new state of the art building. LACUNA has been appointed by Westminster City Council Place Shaping and Culture teams to support the Council in delivering a series of public art commissions across Praed Street over the next two years.
She is former Culture Mile Outdoor Art Curator (2017–2019), Advisor to the City of London’s Eastern City Cluster Area Strategy (2017-19) and Creative Lead for Celebrate the City (2012), the Square Mile’s cultural programme for the London Olympics. Stella is a Mayor of London and London Borough of Culture approved consultant, a liveryman member and court assistant of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, and a member of the City Architecture Forum. Stella was Founding Deputy Director of the London Festival of Architecture (2003-2007) and in 2021 joined the Lord Mayor’s Culture and Commerce Task Force. She joined the New London Architecture (NLA) Expert Panel on Culture in 2026 and has most recently been awarded a RIBA Honorary Fellowship. She studied architecture and is a trained dancer. Stella regularly lectures and sits on art juries in the UK and abroad.
Eastern City
We are the Eastern City BID, the Business Improvement District working to promote and enhance a unique part of the City of London, known as the Eastern City.
In February 2022, the Eastern City business community voted to establish a formal Business Improvement District (BID) in the area, after the success of its predecessor – the EC Partnership.
Business Partnerships and Business Improvement Districts give a voice to business communities – championing local priorities and ensuring the right people are at the decision table. Businesses understand that together they can be stronger; lobbying on big, strategic issues that impact on their commercial performance and ability to grow. This is not a case of the private sector plugging public sector funding gaps, but genuine collaboration and collective action.
Bompas & Parr
Bompas & Parr cultivates culture and is globally recognised as the leading experts in multisensory experience design, achieving international prominence in the realms of food and drink.
The studio works with cultural institutions, commercial brands and governments to deliver emotionally compelling and transformational experiences to a wide variety of audiences.
Unlike other areas of cultural endeavor, everyone is an expert when it comes to food. It is a topic everyone can engage with, communicating deep and resonant stories about who we are. Bompas & Parr leads in articulating these stories.
Genre-defining projects include Alcoholic Architecture, an inhabitable cloud of gin and tonic with earned reach of 3.7bn ; the world’s first Multi-Sensory Fireworks display for London New Year’s Eve; and the Taste Experience for the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin visited by 1.4m people per year.
Bompas & Parr also founded the British Museum of Food, the world’s first cultural institution exclusively dedicated to food and drink. The studio has published nine books that explore humankind’s relationship with food and is currently working on the Museum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch.
Co-founder of Bompas & Parr, Sam Bompas works as executive creative director, culinograher and impresario in the worlds between food, cities and creative practice. Sam spends his time developing museums, campaigns, governmental initiatives and jellies that are universally appealing, experientially compelling and completely remarkable.
Over the years Sam has cultivated an extensive network of historians, chemists, micro-biologists, artists, musicians, art directors, flavourists, chefs, professional noses, inventors, technologists, stage illusionists, and pyrotechnicians who collaborate with Bompas & Parr to create genuine world firsts such the London NYE Fireworks where you can taste the fireworks as they explode, attended by a quarter of a million people.
Press accolades include TimeOut’s ’50 Best Londoners’ and Evening Standard’s ‘1000 most influential people’.
Bar Fogo Bishopsgate
Bar Fogo is a refined cocktail bar in Bishopsgate offering an elevated destination for after-work drinks, social occasions and events near Liverpool Street Station. Located on the ground floor of Fogo de Chão Bishopsgate, formerly Fino by Fazenda, the bar combines rich leather seating, walnut-panelled interiors and a warm, relaxed atmosphere designed to transition effortlessly from early evening gatherings into later occasions.
Showcasing expertly crafted cocktails, premium wines, beers and elevated shareable plates, Bar Fogo offers one of the City of London’s most distinctive cocktail bar settings. Ideal for informal drinks, networking occasions, pre-dinner cocktails and weekend gatherings, the venue blends refined design with a sociable atmosphere in the heart of Bishopsgate.
Bar Fogo also offers flexible spaces for exclusive hire and private events, creating a stylish setting for corporate socials, drinks receptions, celebrations and group occasions in the City of London.
Happy Hour is available daily from 3–7pm in both Bar Fogo and the restaurant, featuring selected beers, South American wines and Brazilian-inspired cocktails, alongside dishes from the Bar & Terrace Food Menu available exclusively in the bar.
Visit fogodechao.uk/location/barfogo-bishopsgate for reservations and to learn more.
A Taste of Sculpture in the City, led by Stella Ioannou, 20 June 2026, SITC 14th ed. Courtesy Eastern City BID. Photo © Lubka Gangarova
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