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Huge London sculpture made in Birmingham!

CMA Moldform Ltd News and PR from CMA Moldform Ltd - Published 19 June 2014 ‘Unity’ is a massive 6 tonnes of granite and tinted blue resin combined, nearly 3.8 metres high, sculpted by Simon Hitchens and resin cast by CMA Moldform.
'Unity' has been installed at Kings Cross Central (the redeveloped former Goods Yard) in London.

The Sculpture has been manufactured from two materials:
Bon Accord granite from South Africa was drilled and cut at Fyfe Glenrock, Aberdeen and then finished at SimonÂ’s Somerset studio. Weight 4 tonnes, size 3.25m x 80mm x 35mm thick.

The large mould, some 450kgs in weight, and the tinted polyurethane resin was cast at CMAÂ’s new facility in Birmingham, a highly technically challenging single pour cast. Weight 1.6 tonnes. Size 3.75m x 80mm x 35mm thick.

Urbanest commissioned this public piece of artwork through Art Contact for the new site at Kings Cross Central. Simon Hitchens was awarded the contract for the commission in January 2013, which was developed from the initial concept by Simon to the final sculpture ‘Unity’.

Peter Turnock of CMA stated “…This unique piece of artwork creating Simon Hitchens depth of design 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."
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...weighing 1.6 tonnes, it was a highly technically challenging single pour cast...

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