Strand installation by Stuart Haygarth

Combs, lighters and babies’ dummies are among the hundreds of objects found washed up on British beaches and then hung in the atrium of a new London cancer centre by designer Stuart Haygarth.

Called Strand, the artwork comprises hundreds of objects found during a 500-mile coastal walk from Gravesend in Kent to Land’s End in Cornwall.

The objects were categorised by colour and suspended from the hospital’s atrium as if exploding outwards, an approach that Haygarth has used before to makechandeliers from debris such as spectacle lenses and plastic bottles.

''The categories I found were toys, gloves, shoes, combs, buoys, disposable lighters, fibreglass from boats, brushes, floor vinyl, handles, balls, packaging, lids from containers, balls, artificial flowers, fishing equipment, spades, babies’ dummies, plastic buckets and wheels,” he said.