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Refurbished Dundee Gallery Lights Up with Spectacular New Commission

DUNDEE.- A stunning, luminously coloured new sculpture has been installed in its new home at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, to mark the building’s £12 million refurbishment. Commissioned directly from the artist, “Waldella, Dundee”, by David Batchelor was partly funded by independent charity The Art Fund with a grant of £27,740. The work, specifically designed for The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum and never publicly displayed before, is the largest and most ambitious contemporary work ever to have been bought by the Galleries. Over 10 metres in length and dramatically suspended from the ceiling, it will act as a focal point for the new three storey central circulation area in the redeveloped building. It is designed to draw visitors up through the building, where they will encounter different views of the work from all three floors. Dundee-born Batchelor (b.1955) is one of Britain’s most resp