Canary Wharf Winter Lights are back for their tenth edition. The event, featuring sixteen installations this year, runs from Tuesday 20 to Saturday 31 January 2026.
Having visited on the festival’s final Saturday in 2024 and 2025, the crowds have been growing thicker every year and the best way to mitigate this is by visitng mid-week.
So here we are on a chilly Tuesday, just as the rain showers cease and dusk descends.
The art trail takes us past the following numbered artworks:
- Out of Body Experience by Alaa Minawi (Netherlands, Palestine, Lebanon)
- Lacto-Reacto-Light by Jack Wimperis (UK)
- FloWeR PoWeR by Aerosculpture / Jean-Pierre David and Christian Thellier (France)
- In Bloom by Kumquat Lab (UK)
- Trispheric Garden by REELIZE.STUDIO (Australia)
- For Ever and Ever and Ever by Anna Lomax (UK)
- SOL by Artistic Latvia / Janis Petersons (Latvia)
- Aether by Architecture Social Club (UK)
- Blueprint by Studio Vertigo (UK)
- Hulahoop by Scale (France)
- Sanctuary by Ithaca Studio (UK)
- Un-Reel Access bvy KAPPA / Patrick and Kaori Jones (UK/ Japan)
- Colour Rush by Liz West (UK)
- Manifestation by Marcus Lyall (UK)
- At the Hand by LACROIX (Canada)
- Amplitudes by Limbic Cinema (UK)
My favourites this year were Out of Body Experience (1), FloWeR PoWeR (3) and Amplitudes (16).