A Birmingham manufacturer has built a giant sculpture that sits at the heart of a regenerated part of central London.
CMA Moldform cast the sculpture, called Unity, using six tonnes of granite and tinted blue resin combined and measuring more than 12ft high, which was sculpted by Simon Hitchens.
It has been installed at Kings Cross Central, the redeveloped former goods yard in London.
The sculpture was designed to reference the heavy engineering used in the area’s industrial past, suggestive of two large and redundant cogged wheels. The granite element symbolises the robust building materials used in the old goods yard, where commodities were moved about by rail and cart.
Urbanest commissioned this public piece of artwork through Camden Council.
Peter Turnock of CMA said: “This unique piece of artwork created by Simon Hitchens goes beyond the normal boundaries for this sort of sculpture.
“It combines two very different materials and shows that CMA can produce the artists’ imagined designs.”
