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Green hair day

Published 3 June 2010

This monster mop is the creation of Nick Spalding, one of 500 exhibiting students at the University of Brighton’s Burt, Brill and Cardens Graduate Show starting Saturday 5 June.

The living sculpture sees volunteer Annabel Maguire inviting visitors to climb up her 'hair' and then to slide down a pole and land inside the straw mountain where they are offered melon to eat.

Entitled Lurid Ultra Hybrid vs Crestfallen Nuclear Winter, Nick Spalding, a sculpture student originally from Guildford, Surrey, said the work was a fairytale, a "cross between Rip Van Winkle and Rapunzel" who lowered her long hair down the side of a tower to allow a prince to climb up.

Gez Wilson, the university’s theatre manager, climbs up to student Annabel Maguire, as Nick Spalding exits the fairytale hair mountain.

Parties of school children and art students from abroad are visiting the show, called Hook, Line and Sinker, at the Grand Parade campus in Brighton. It runs until Thursday next week (10 June) and is open to the public.

Transformed into the biggest art gallery in the south east of the UK, the Faculty of Arts is playing host to a variety of work from a range of 25 courses from fashion and 3D Design to photography. More than 15,000 visitors are expected.

For more information go to the Faculty of Arts website or email Nick directly on nick_spalding@hotmail.co.uk or visit his website: http://nickspalding.weebly.com/ .