Steel Horse - Coventry, UK - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

A statue of a rearing horse constructed out of overlapping irregular shaped steel plates. It stands on a brick platform set into the slope of a small hillock in a roundabout facing south-east towards the A429. The work cost £600. The artist, one of four winners of a council-run competition to mark Industry Year 1986, was reportedly not very pleased with the offer prize of a £25 book token. He was then a student on the sculpture course at Coventry University (as it is now).

The only plaque on the statue reads: Restored by R J Jones & Co (blacksmiths) Burton Hastings Warwickshire August 1998

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Steel Horse Figure Type: Animal Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Simon Evans Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 01/01/1986 Materials used: Steel - coated black Location: Park - Greyfriars Green that includes a roundabout

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