Ebbsfleet proposals unveiled

Wallinger’s proposal is an accurate replica of an enormous white horse, 33 times life size. The white horse is the symbol of Kent, stemming from ‘Horsa’ the mythological leader of Anglo Saxon times who landed near Ebbsfleet in the 6th Century. The subject neatly combines Wallinger’s own fascination with man’s relation to horses, which has formed quite a central theme in his work.

‘As a sculpture the aesthetic work has been done. The horse is the work of centuries of continuous collaboration between man and nature. It is beautiful. And if the scale makes it uncanny, perhaps this is because it is also something quite plain and simple – a horse in a field,’ says Wallinger.