Art in the UK

Northumberlandia, designed by Charles Jencks, Northumberland
A work in progress, she is created out of 1.5m tonnes of overburden from the nearby Shotton open-cast mine, and will be the largest replica of the human body in the world. Come her completion in 2013, visitors will be able to walk over her giant form, over shins and thighs and 34-metre-tall breasts.

Bean An T-Visce (Lady of the Water) by Alannah Robins in Cumbria
This is a quite magical work, which comes alive in the wood's speckled light.

Reclining Woman: Elbow, by Henry Moore, Leeds
Moore, who spent his youth in Leeds, sited the statue himself. He reportedly relished the contrast between her rounded form and the gallery's austere limestone exterior.

Siren by Andre Wallace, Newcastle

There is something of the Easter Island statue about her poise, her chin level and her eyes fixed across the river, to the Baltic Centre on the far shore. She is partner to Wallace's River God, which is nearby, blowing Siren a kiss.

Sitting by Sophie Ryder, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Much of the pleasure of Ryder's work comes from texture, the bronze ruffled, the colour matt, and from the sculptures' curiously romantic air.

The Broadgate Venus by Fernando Botero, London
Columbian sculptor Botero created this voluptuous five-tonne figure in 1990, placing her in the heart of London's financial district. Visit her on a weekday and note her pleasing incongruity as besuited workers scuttle by with briefcases.

The Family of Man by Barbara Hepworth, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
These bronze figures make for magnificent viewing: imposing, primeval, totemic, the poet Simon Armitage once described their block-like forms as "full of beautiful possibility".

The River by Dhruva Mistry, Birmingham
When she first arrived in central Birmingham in the early 90s, locals nicknamed her the Floozie in the Jacuzzi but the vast bronze is more serene than the epithet might suggest. Around the edge of her pool runs a quotation from TS Eliot's Burnt Norton.

Folkestone Mermaid by Cornelia Parker, Kent
The model was chosen out of 50 applicants from the local area, plucked from among her rivals for her 'statuesque' physique and her 'spirit of freedom'.