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1st March 2010 – Welsh Dragons

Happy St Davids’ Day

Don’t know if you may have already seen this dragon on the Welsh news today but don’t think it will have been on anywhere else. A business man in Wrexham came up with the idea, a kind of Welsh version of the Angel of the North. I think it will be an impressive sight if it actually gets off the ground so to speak, the proposal is for it to be 200 foot high – higher than Nelson’s Column. My only query is why does it appear to be standing on a pile of Chris Ofili’s elephant dung ?

The man with the idea is Simon Wingett (left) with artist Steve Winterburn, who has constructed this maquette of the sculpture, called Waking the Dragon

News Article – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254638/The-200ft-Welsh-dragon-set-tallest-sculpture-Britain.html

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