Giant whale sculpture sets sail on voyage to Scotland
36-metre artwork built in West Sussex heading to Dundee
A 36-metre whale sculpture constructed in West Sussex set sail for Dundee on Thursday evening.
Lee Simmons, 33, from Hertfordshire, designed the sculptureafterbeingselectedby a panel of experts, led by Dundee City Council, to feature at the city’s interactive play park.
A whale was chosen to represent the history of whaling out of Dundee and the sculpture was constructed at Littlehampton Welding, in Littlehampton, having been in theworksforthepast18months.
The whale sculpture is the latest of several Lee and Littlehampton Welding have worked together on.
Neil Fry, 48, managing director of Littlehampton Welding, said: “The sculpture was manufactured in four separate parts, the tail, the two fins, and the body, which we put together in the yard outside.
“This sculpture is very exciting for us.
“Public artwork on this scale is very rare, this sort of size doesn’t get made that often, so everybody was up for it.
“We do large-scale projects normally, but this kind of work is something we’d love to do permanently.”