Designed by the artist Steven Broadbent, sponsored by Alstom Power (now Siemens), and completed in 2002, the Empowerment spans the River Witham in Lincoln’s City Square. It takes the form of two aluminum-and-steel human figures reaching to each other across the water. The design is intended to echo the shape of turbine blades, in recognition of Lincoln’s industrial heritage. On one side there is a large ‘ring’ structure for the public to walk through. On the other bank a single arched cantilever structure stretches across the river.
Monday’s Monument: Empowerment, Lincoln, England
