How does this artwork elucidate its Basic Info?
· Designed by world-famous, award-winning Catalan artist Jaume Plensa
· Standing on a plinth, Dream is 20 metres, 66 feet high and is fifty times life size
· The sculpture weighs 373 tonnes and sits on the site of Sutton Manor Colliery
· Made from brilliant white pre-cast concrete with Spanish dolomite, the whitest marble
· The plinth in the shape of a miner's tally is 17 metres in diameter, made of 36 units
· The casting of Dream by Evans Concrete of Derbyshire took a total of sixty days
· A total of 6160 man hours were spent in constructing the sculpture
· 54 different panels each weighing 9 tonnes comprise Dream's head
· The supporting piles go 38 metres underground, nearly twice Dream's height
· An estimated 55 million vehicles pass Dream each year on the M62
Jaume Plensa Sutton sculpture dolomite Sutton Manor Colliery