Works by well-known artists such as Damien Hirst, Martin Creed and Gary Hume are to be displayed along a new sculpture walk.

The route, called The Line, will link the O2 Arena with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London and has been set up with £140,000 raised through crowd-funding.

A panel which includes 2007 Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger has chosen the works which will be included along the way.

They will include Work No 700 by Creed – a length of steel beam – and Hirst’s Sensation, a large bronze sculpture of a cutaway section of the structure of skin.

Vulcan by the late Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Hume’s Liberty Grip are also the items on the three-mile route which are being loaned for two years and will be monitored by CCTV cameras to ensure they are not damaged or stolen.

The path – backed by galleries such as Gagosian, White Cube, Carroll/Fletcher and Pangolin London – will cross the Thames at the Emirates Air Line cable car.

Megan Piper, co-founder of The Line, said: “One of the greatest things about London is its ability to surprise.”

The walk opens later this year.