Sculptor: Kerry Stewart
Date: 2007
Location: Originally on the forecourt at the north entrance adjacent to Tesco, it has been repositioned to the rear of the complex beside the covered carpark on Cowglen Road
Description:
The Beast is a 20 foot long, five foot high bronze sculpture. The artist considered it to be the antithesis of the clean, sleek and desirable Silverburn Centre.
It is very hairy, almost dirty looking. A big hulk of a sculpture people could engage with and lift children on to for photos.
The commercial opportunities of its original site caused is relegation to the less busy position. Before its re-siting the Beast had been surrounded by prickly vegetation had thus thwarting the artists hopes for her work.