The Applause, Swindon.

This sculpture stands outside the Arts Centre in Swindon. I thought it was bronze, but after further research, found out it was made from a veneer.

More about the artist:

'My original idea was to produce a mould and cast the work in concrete. This idea was discarded because of the prohibitive weight. Ideally a cast bronze would be the best solution but the fabrication budget of £5,000 was about £30,000 short for that process. I was more or less resigned to producing a cast "bronzed" resin structure which would also fall outside our budget.

I remained confident there must be a way of applying a metal finish to a fabricated structure and unsuccessfully searched the internet for the solution. Feeling a bit down about my fruitless surfing, I was bemoaning the fact over the counter at a nearby sculptural material suppliers, when a stranger overheard and handed me a scrap of paper with a local phone number "this guy reckons he's invented a way of doing just what you were talking about" This led to my meeting with Brian from Metall-FX, the samples looked superb and the process perfect for the fabrication technique I felt competent with.