The much-anticipated visit to Newtown of the iconic Knife Angel takes place this weekend.
On Friday, the sculpture travelled down the A483 from Oswestry to Newtown with a convoy of Blood Bikes Wales volunteers and Dyfed-Powys Police officers.
The sculpture will be in place outside the Oriel Davies Gallery from 12pm on Saturday and will be in Newtown for 28 days, as part of the monument’s first visit to Wales.
Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn and Newtown County Councillor Joy Jones, along with other local people, joined forces to make the successful bid to bring the National Monument against Violence and Aggression to Wales for the first time.
Created at the British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry the 3.5 tonnes, 27 foot high, Knife Angel, is a “national monument against violence and aggression” and was made from 100,000 knives collected from 43 police forces all around the country including Dyfed-Powys.
Artist, Alfie Bradley, took two years to make the angel, with each knife blunted before being welded onto the sculpture.
The wings were then created using the blades only, creating a feather like appearance.
Part of the the Knife Angel’s work is to promote a petition supporting a ‘Save a Life – Surrender your Knife’ campaign that has already been signed by nearly 16,000 people.
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