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A celebrated mosaic by artist Eduardo Paolozzi has gone on show again to commuters at Tottenham Court Road station.

London Underground was criticised in 2015 after a section of the mosaic was removed during the work on the station with critics saying the decision was made without involving members of the public.

But it says 95 per cent of the artist’s original design is now back on public view.

Original tiles have now been cleaned up and in some cases replaced or relocated after the station’s expansion to prepare for the Elizabeth Line.

A section which was removed from the wall at the old Oxford Street entrance has been lowered down a lift shaft to a new site at platform level.

The sections that could not be relocated have been given to Edinburgh College of Art, where the pop artist was a professor, and are used to teach students.

Paolozzi’s design, which covers 950 square metres, was completed in 1986 and is one of the Tube’s most famous examples of public art seen by many of the 150,000 people who use the station every day.

Eleanor Pinfield, Head of Art on the Underground, said: “The restoration process has been a painstaking one, but today we can see the expansive beauty of the work once again.

“The rotunda has been enhanced with new lighting, and throughout the station the repair and cleaning of the mosaics allows the full breadth, scale and ambition of the work to be enjoyed by a new generation of Underground customers.

“The former Oxford Street panel is a key part of Paolozzi’s vision for the station, drawing together many of the themes seen in the wider station artwork, and I am delighted to see it back on public view.”