Roller skate sculpture rolls with it in Pimlico

12 April 2012

It makes a change from skateboarding youths. On the corner of Moreton Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road in Pimlico, six-year-old Beth Tsang welcomes the cool new girl in town — a sculpted roller skater more than six feet tall.

André Wallace's work was commissioned six years ago as part of a residential development but was held up by the changing fortunes of the housing market.

The artist, 63, based in Bromley-by-Bow, said: "I wanted to make a sculpture that would be positive and dynamic and reflect the youth and vitality of an urban street.

"It's quite a mixed audience there and really busy and vital and I wanted something that conveyed that."

The state of the housing market has not been the only headache in the project. Just as the statue was being installed, a lamp-post was erected two feet away.

"We had to spend about two weeks removing that," Wallace said.

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