Dream Outdoors

This impressive sculpture, by internationally renowned artist Jaume Plensa, is situated on the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St. Helens, midway between Liverpool and Manchester.Dream was commissioned by local ex-miners and St. Helens Council as part of the Channel 4 Big Art Project, an ambitious public art commissioning initiative.Dream takes the form of a 20 metre high girl's head with her eyes closed, seemingly in a dream-like state, resting on a plinth bearing the inscription Dream Sutton Manor inspired by the small, circular tatty each miner carried as a means of identification.