A 30-FOOT high sculpture of a horse’s head, created in a Liverpool foundry, is to go on display at Goodwood racecourse this week.

Artist Nic Fiddian-Green, who is a favourite of many celebrity art collectors, including Hollywood actor Russell Crowe, oversaw the casting of the work in bronze at Bank Hall foundry.

Artemis will be lowered into position on Goodwood’s Trundle this week before being moved to the members’ lawn for the Glorious Goodwood meeting in late July.

Fiddian-Green, who recently created the 30ft bronze Marwarri Horse at Water, for London’s Marble Arch, says: “My primary aim is to place beautiful works of art into the landscape, and I can think of nowhere more powerful for my Greek horses head, Artemis, than on the ancient site of the trundle at Goodwood, overlooking the steeple of Chichester Cathedral to the sea and across to the Isle of Wight.”

The artist created the initial maquettes from clay in rural Surrey, but, due to the complicated process of pouring molten bronze pouring into his moulds at 1,200°C, he completed the work at the Liverpool foundry.

As well as Crowe, high-profile collectors of his work include Ringo Starr, JK Rowling and Tom Cruise.

“Back in the 1980s, during a visit to the Elgin Marbles at London’s British Museum, I first saw the horse of Selene which sparked a lifelong passion for the horse’s head,” he says.