Imperial College London students kick off about ‘phallic’ statue by Angle of the North sculptor

Students are fighting the installation of a new sculpture at Imperial College London which they claim looks like a man exposing his penis. 

The sculpture, by artist Antony Gormley, is named ‘Alert’ and made up of stacked steel blocks meant to resemble a person squatting down. 

But students at the university say the sculpture has a clear other interpretation. They claim that when viewed from a certain angle, the figure appears to have a three-metre-long erect penis, nearly half the height of the whole statue.

A student’s motion to stop the installation said it may, ‘hurt the image and reputation of the college’.

‘Alert’ is due to be installed as the centrepiece of the campus’s Dangoor Plaza this summer.

Mr Gormley said the sculpture is a figure ‘balancing on the balls of the feet’…