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This sculpture was commissioned for the brand new University campus, opened in 1967. W. J. Strachan (1984) explained that white was added 'to help the eye to separate the rising columns of his sculpture at Southampton', whereas here, it is added 'to harmonise with the white building and make an agreeable contrast with the green lawn.' At the press conference held to mark the handing over of the sculpture, Dr T. L. Cottrell, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, said: 'We feel we have a duty to staff and students to provide an environment in which the arts play a full part. We are spending something in the order of one percent of our capital outlay on the arts. We don‘t think that it is particularly excessive or particularly mean, but we do feel that it is important in our comparatively rural setting that we should provide some of the things which students take for granted in say Glasgow or London.