COP26 Legacy - Hope Sculpture

Glasgow's Hope Sculpture Spotlights Global Goals at COP26
Steuart Padwick’s citywide public sculptures reflect on the scale of the climate emergency achieving a 75% lower carbon build.
Leading Scottish writers, poets and a Bafta winning film director create messages of Hope.
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“The Hope Sculpture started as a conversation with Ramboll and became a gift from 50 companies to Glasgow. It is a testament to the power of collaboration and dedication to deliver a better future” Steuart Padwick.
This engaging public art installation by Steuart Padwick, is sited at 3 locations across Glasgow for COP26 and beyond. The 23m high Hope Sculpture is at the beautiful woodland park of Cuningar Loop, part of Clyde Gateway, Scotland’s biggest and most ambitious regeneration programme.. The 4.5m high Beacon of Hope is located at the city’s architecturally significant Glasgow Central Station and the 3.5m high Hope Triptych at the University of Strathclyde’s Rottenrow Gardens. Visitors will be encouraged to access the sculptures via a walking and cycling route that connects the pieces.
Each sculpture is being constructed using low carbon, reclaimed, recycled or sustainable materials, of which, almost all have been locally sourced. It is a showcase for how leading industry partners are committed to build more sustainably, as we transition to a net zero future. The build demonstrating a 75% lower carbon impact.
The monumental Hope Sculpture features an age, gender, race neutral child, embracing the surrounding nature and reaching out to a greener, hopeful future. The child stands above towering, 20m high elegant columns that take their form from the brick chimney stalks that once littered the East End of Glasgow. Unlike its predecessors, this deconstructed chimney stalk is made from an innovative new low carbon 100% cement free concrete incorporating locally sourced aggregates and recycled crushed glass in the child.
All lighting will be soft low energy and respectful of the environment and of local wildlife. using fittings designed and manufactured in Scotland for the Circular Economy.
The principal build partners for the project include lead consultant Ramboll, lead contractor Urban Union (part of Robertson Group), Aggregate Industries (member of Holcim) and Keltbray.
The Beacon of Hope at Glasgow Central has the Child of Hope reaching out to all those passing through the station. Made from contoured layers of FSC Scottish-grown Sitka Spruce, it celebrates the expanding timber construction industry that Scotland is developing.
Finally, Padwick’s third sculpture – the ‘Hope Triptych’ – is a playful 3.5m-high adaptation of the Child of Hope and is composed of three colourful figures, symbolising the power of coming together. Located at Rottenrow Gardens the triptych is made from reclaimed sheet steel with a low carbon cement-free concrete foundation.