A work in progress, she is created out of 1.5m tonnes of overburden from the nearby Shotton open-cast mine, and will be the largest replica of the human body in the world. Come her completion in 2013, visitors will be able to walk over her giant form, over shins and thighs and 34-metre-tall breasts. Photograph: PR
This is a quite magical work, which comes alive in the wood's speckled light. Photograph: Alamy
Moore, who spent his youth in Leeds, sited the statue himself. He reportedly relished the contrast between her rounded form and the gallery's austere limestone exterior. Photograph: Alamy
There is something of the Easter Island statue about her poise, her chin level and her eyes fixed across the river, to the Baltic Centre on the far shore. She is partner to Wallace's River God, which is nearby, blowing Siren a kiss. Photograph: Alamy
Much of the pleasure of Ryder's work comes from texture, the bronze ruffled, the colour matt, and from the sculptures' curiously romantic air. Photograph: Anne Elizabeth Mitchell/Alamy
Columbian sculptor Botero created this voluptuous five-tonne figure in 1990, placing her in the heart of London's financial district. Visit her on a weekday and note her pleasing incongruity as besuited workers scuttle by with briefcases. Photograph: Alamy
These bronze figures make for magnificent viewing: imposing, primeval, totemic, the poet Simon Armitage once described their block-like forms as "full of beautiful possibility". Photograph: Maurice Crooks/Alamy
When she first arrived in central Birmingham in the early 90s, locals nicknamed her the Floozie in the Jacuzzi but he vast bronze is more serene than the epithet might suggest. Around the edge of her pool runs a quotation from TS Eliot's Burnt Norton. Photograph: Alamy
The model was chosen out of 50 applicants from the local area, plucked from among her rivals for her 'statuesque' physique and her 'spirit of freedom'. Photograph: Andy Hall
