At the bottom of a field in Milton Keynes, a concrete mural has lain dismantled and covered in moss for the past 10 years. Unless it finds a new owner soon, the 34-tonne sculpture will be taken away and broken into rubble. Local art enthusiast Tim Skelton is on a mission to find it a loving home.
The current circumstance of the mural, named Celestial, is a far cry from its triumphant debut in 1969. A young Scottish artist, Keith McCarter, was summoned by the Ministry of Public Building and Works to meet the designer of the BT Tower, Eric Bedford, to discuss designing a piece of art that would sit as part of the new headquarters for the Ordnance Survey (OS), the national mapping agency, in Southampton.
