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Huge puffed out cheeks, large thick lips that every aspiring supermodel would covet, a nose of great distinction and heavily lidded eyes, the haughty expression of the late film director Alfred Hitchcock gazes down from its raised platform, writes Amanda Birch.
Reminiscent of the Egyptian Sphinx or a Buddha's head, the massive Corten steel head of a 38-year-old Hitchcock, by sculptor Antony Donaldson, occupies a prominent position in the central public square of Munkenbeck & Marshall's new development.
The sculptor decided early on that the material should be corten and that the subject should be Hitchcock, given the filmmaker's association with the Gainsborough Studios, but Donaldson pushed the capabilities of the material.
At approximately 4m in height from the collar to...