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£2m public art designs unveiled £2m sculpture designs revealed
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Designs for a £2m public sculpture, twice as high as the Angel of the North to be built on a hilltop in Kent, are being unveiled. Five designs for a £2m hilltop landmark in Kent, which will be visible from road, rail and air, have been unveiled.
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is among five artists shortlisted for the 50 metre (164ft) Ebbsfleet Landmark. Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is among internationally-acclaimed artists shortlisted for the Ebbsfleet Landmark.
Wallinger won the 2007 prize for State Britain, in which he recreated in a gallery Brian Haw's anti-Iraq war protest mounted outside parliament. He is proposing a white horse, 33 times life-size, which would look out over the Ebbsfleet Valley.
The new work is due to be completed, on a site next to the A2, by 2010. The winning design will be announced this autumn and is expected to be completed in 2010.
The other names shortlisted for the commission are French artist Daniel Buren, Turner Prize winners Richard Deacon and Rachel Whiteread, whose work has included a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house, and sculptor Christopher Le Brun.
The new sculpture, the height of Nelson's Column, is intended to represent the regeneration of north west Kent, and the growth of London eastwards.
The work will mark the new Ebbsfleet International station and the planned transformation of Ebbsfleet Valley.
Lord Lieutenant of Kent, Allan Willett, who is chairing the committee that will select the final design, has said it will be an iconic landmark.
Antony Gormley's steel Angel of the North was unveiled on a hill overlooking the A1 at Gateshead in 1998 and has been named a British icon.