'Angel of the South' to be giant white horse.A GIANT white horse was announced yesterday as a new pounds 2m public art commission in south east England South East England is one of the nine official regions of England. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics in 1999. Its boundaries include Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. dubbed the "Angel of the South". The winning design, by former Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger Mark Wallinger (born 1959) is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo (1999), and State Britain (2007) a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. , was selected from a three-strong shortlist as part of the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project. His design will see a horse standing on all four hooves at 33 times life-size. Once built, the artwork will dominate the north Kent landscape, standing as high as Nelson's Column at around 164ft (50m). Yesterday's announcement was made at Swan Valley Community School in Swanscombe in Kent, which overlooks the Springhead spring·head n. A fountainhead; a source: a society that was the springhead of Western legal thought. Park area where the giant statue will be built. The sculpture will be seen by up to 60 million people per year and will be more than twice as tall as Antony Gormley's 66ft (20m) high Angel Of The North sculpture in Gateshead in 1998. Wallinger said: "This is a tremendously exciting project. There was some very tough competition and I am honoured that the horse has won through." The other two shortlisted designs included a steel latticework "nest" by Richard Deacon and a tower of stacked cubes by Daniel Buren. CAPTION(S): Artist Mark Wallinger with his winning design of the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project, which was announced yesterday |
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