Competition
Buttress was selected after intense competition from more than 40 artists from the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and internationally.
There was a previous competition and previous winner; however plans for the Trillian by Ed Carpenter were scrapped amid escalating steel costs, which threatened to raise the price of the sculpture, originally agreed at £400,000, to £600,000.
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