I Goat - Artwork at Spitafield Market

Hi Steemians,

today I saw a new artwork on Spitalfields Market, I guess it isn't new because it was first unveiled in 2010 but I hadn't seen it before and I think it is new at the square.

It is a 3.5-metre tall statue called "I Goat" by the artist Kenny Hunter. This artwork symbolizes the struggles of immigrants who came to live in the Spitalfields area. Goats are said to be a symbol of persecution worldwide.

“Goats are associated with non-conformity and being independently-minded. That is also true of London, its people and never more so than in Spitalfields.” said artist Kenny Hunter at the official unveiling on 20 January 2011.
source: https://www.spitalfields.co.uk/public-art/

Kenny Hunter is a Scottish sculptor who lives and works in Edinburgh.

This is a list of his public artworks :

• Blackbird (the persistence of vision), Leicester Square, London (2016)
• A place is a space remembered, Maison du Site des Deux-Caps, France (2015)
• Elephant for Glasgow, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, UK (2015)
• Portrait of Andrew Grant, Edinburgh College of Art, UK (2015)
• Black Swan, Eschborn, Germany (2014)
• The Watcher, The Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick, East Lothian, UK (2014)
• Hawk / Creation, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, UK (2013)
• Stand Easy, Leicestershire County Council Armed Services Memorial, UK (2012)
• The Unknown, Borgie Forest, Sutherland, UK (2012)
• Patrick Geddes Monument, The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, UK (2012)
• The Barnsley Mining Artwork, Barnsley Interchange, Barnsley, UK (2012)
• Liberty Regain'd, The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, UK (2012)
• Second Glance at a Roe Deer, Orchard Park, Cambridge, UK (2011)
• I Goat, Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London (2011)
• Monument to a Mouse, The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, UK (2010)
• We Adapt, Victoria Street, Rutherglen, UK (2009)[5]
• Red Boy, Bad Homburg, Germany (2008)
• Mademoiselle de Fives, Place Degeyter, Fives, Lille, France (2007)
• Natural Selection, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London (2006)
• Lamb, Whitefriars, Canterbury, UK (2005)
• Youth With Split Apple outside King's College at the University of Aberdeen (2005)[6]
• Girl with Rucksack, Gorbals, Glasgow (2004)
• Calf, at the old Meat Market on Gallowgate, Calton in Glasgow (2000)
• King of the Castle / Boy Wonder, Castlemilk, Glasgow (2000)[7]
• Four Children in the pedestrianised area of Hamilton town centre (1998)
• Cherub/Skull at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow (1998)[8]
  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Hunter

I love the fact that Spitalfield Market curates public artwork! Art should be for everyone, can brighten up one's day and teach you how to dream. I am especially attracted to political artwork like this one.

I hope you are able to stop buy if you are in London one day!