The Liverpool Plinth 2021
Faith is the latest artist to have work installed on The Liverpool Plinth, the North’s answer to London’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. The winning 2021 sculpture, entitled Jimmy – named after a working horse that Faith rode as a child – depicts a horse, once a common site along Liverpool’s waterways and canal sides. He overlooks the Leeds to Liverpool Canal at the Pier Head which opened to boats in April 2009 after a £22m extension which took the canal past the city’s historic waterfront. The Liverpool Plinth is commissioned by Liverpool BID Company, Liverpool Parish Church and dot-art. Jimmy will be on display on the plinth at Liverpool Parish Church from July 2021 to July 2022.
Jimmy was created with reconstructed plastic milk bottles and celebrates working horses from the 18th century, as he looks over the nearby Leeds Liverpool Canal. Her first working horse sculpture is permamently sited at the National Waterways Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port. This was back in the days when she used fibreglass resin to make sculptures. Since 2014 Faith used more environmentally friendly materials, recycling plastics mostly to create public works.
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