A row has erupted in the cathedral city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire over a “disrespectful” Amazonian love god statue due to be installed as part of the city’s £1m art trail.
The artist Jason Wilsher-Mills has been forced to defend his 1.9 metre (6ft 3in) bronze work after people said its placement so close to Wakefield Cathedral, outside the entrance of the Ridings shopping centre, was a “mockery of Christianity”.
