Art creates Splash

Splash Point will be the site for Walter Jack Studio's winning design, Suncloud, which was selected as part of Worthing's Masterplan regeneration project.

Bristol-based Walter Jack has designed the work to be interactive, and fun, with its 44 steel masts, each standing about 13ft high.

The masts are intended to mimic a little woodland with a clearing at the centre. The Suncloud will absorb light through the day and light up at night.

Ann Barlow, deputy council leader and a member of the judging panel, said: "I really like the concept that by running beneath each panel, your movement is sensed and the panel lights up for a 30-second burst.

If you can run fast enough, all the panels light at the same time.

"Suncloud is a fantastic play space and kids will have great fun playing 'tag' among the steel tree trunks."

Mr Jack was asked how the artwork would cope with its exposure to both bad weather and vandals: "It is made of marine-grade stainless steel, is durable and low maintenance, and is as vandal and graffiti-proof as we can possibly make it."

Suncloud has been paid for by the government. It is expected to be several months before it is up and running.

Praise came from Dan Thompson, of the Revolutionary Arts Group: "It's contemporary, interactive and will make a real feature '“ as long as it's incorporated into the regeneration of this stretch of the prom and not left as a stand-alone sculpture."