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Artist: BIGGER, Clare
TitleOfWork: 'Spirit of Wigan'
DateOfWork: 2005
Dimensions: Height: 10m
Medium: stainless steel
Location: Wigan
Country: UK - England
Photographer: Dave Ball
ImageCopyright: Dave Ball
AccessionNumber: 06-0599
FileSize: 254925
Location: Off junction 25 of the M6.

Description: Detail: top figure

Commission: Wigan Borough Council. This sculpture is part of the council's Transport Corridors Programme and also of the Ince Economic Development Zone. Funding from North West Regional Development Agency and the European Regional Development Fund and also from local company Totesport.

Comment: A Gateway Sculpture. The Council website describes the firgures as "representing the strength and optimism of the borough."






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