Made from: Bronze, stainless steel, glass fibre reinforced polymer
Dimensions: 20250 x 3800 x 7600 mm | 797.3 x 149.6 x 299.3 in
Verity is a gift to the North Devon Council from Damien Hirst, and is 20.25m tall and weighs 25 tonnes.
She is "an allegory for truth and justice". Her body is cross-sectioned to show her skeleton, muscles, and developing fetus. She stands on scattered legal books and holds two signifiers of justice - scales behind her back and a sword held into the air. Her stance is inspired by Edgar Degas's Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881).
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, Edgar Degas (1881)
Verity is weather and lightning-proof and and underwent extensive testing in a wind tunnel to determine her suitability to a seaside town by her capability to withstand high winds and sea spray.
"She was fabricated in bronze in over 40 individual sand castings at Pangolin Editions foundry, in Gloucestershire. Her phosphor-bronze surface is 20 millimetres thick and her internal support structure is a single piece of stainless steel. After two years of planning and production, Verity arrived in Ilfracombe in three parts in October 2012. After a week’s assembly on site, the sculpture was hoisted into final position using a 250 tonne crane."
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