The Intergalactic Ukrainian Warrior

Gigantica Bearing the Ukrainian Flag

As if landed from a faraway galaxy, Gigantica, who now guards our entrance here at the British Ironwork Centre, has been created to draw urgent attention to the continuing plight in Ukraine.

The British Ironworks Centre has been alarmed over falling public support for Ukraine, and has decided to relaunch its donation appeal using this galactic warrior.

Artist Luke Kite and Gigantica

Galactica has been placed at the entrance of the British Ironworks Centre, maximising public exposure and hopefully inspiring children and families to realise that the UK’s support of Ukraine and Freedom shouldn’t be allowed to continually fade out.

Luke Kite Building Gigantica

Additionally, Gigantica is created of entirely of scrap plastic bumpers and other car parts – doubling as a champion of recycling! It’s always our ambition to use scrap materials in addressing national and worldwide issues.

Chairman of  the British Ironwork Centre, Clive Knowles, commented that “we’ve seen an enormous fall in public donations arriving. Originally, we were receiving 2-3 donations a day, but now we’ve dropped to 1 donation every few weeks.”

He continued: “With winter now upon Ukraine and the Russians bombing public infrastructure and housing, we feel that this humanitarian effort needs to be escalated and that our conscience had to see our efforts reenergised”.

Our hope is that this striking robot will raise important awareness of the ongoing war in Ukraine, and even more importantly, increase donations here at the Centre.

Ukrainian Student and Artist Luke Kite at Gigantica’s Installation

Gigantica is something that can be enjoyed and cherished by all (and that can provide plenty of picture and selfie opportunities!), while simultaneously providing a boost to an extremely important cause.

All of our sculptures and creations are deliberately created to raise public awareness to the difficulties here in the UK and around the world. From the environment crisis to social issues, using art to amplify messages to improve the world we all depend upon is something we strongly believe in.

Gigantica at the Front of the Ironworks