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• The Liffey sculpture’s Mini-Me

  September 6, 2007 @ 8:55 am | by Shane Hegarty

  Dan Sullivan has spotted that Antony Gormley’s planned Liffey sculpture already has a brother in the University of Limerick. He informs us that:

  This is the exact same figure that Gormley did for UL except he filled this one in … He is known as the rusty man

  Apparently, he’s also known as Brown Thomas. It’s officially called Together and Apart, was installed in UL in 2001 and is a good 46-metres shorter than the one Dubliners will get.

  Update 18:00: Green Ink has posted a vision of how what the sculpture could be.

• Antony Gormley’s sculpture

  August 23, 2007 @ 9:30 am | by Shane Hegarty

  Antony Gormley has released an image of his proposed 48-metre high Dublin Docklands sculpture. He tells The Irish Times that it will be “like a charcoal drawing against the sky, changing as your position changes in relation to it. Up close you will see through it, in the distance it will cohere into a bodily image.”

  It’ll be two-thirds the height of Liberty Hall, so Dubliners had better like it…