A bright spark has turned a lonely corner of a retail park's car park into an extraordinary piece of art.

A 10ft (3m)-high light bulb now stands like a beacon outside the second phase of the Forster Square Retail Park in Bradford.

The £14,000 sculpture was made possible thanks to the 'per cent for art' scheme which encourages developers to pay for new works to go with new building schemes.

Asda St James, the company behind the Forster Square retail park, worked together with Wakefield-based Public Arts to choose the light bulb design from several shortlisted drawings.

It is the creation of Hull-based artist Andy Hazell, 39, whose previous commissions include the Bridlington crazy golf course and a curvy glass wall at the Yorkshire Dance Centre in Leeds.

It took him four months to construct the sculpture, which involved much painstaking welding. Mostly made of vandal-proof stainless steel, it also features concrete, brass and glowing neon.

"It will glow much brighter in a couple of weeks after I fit new transformers," he said.

The developers also funded Fibre by Ian Randall - the pair of sculptures outside Forster Square Station.

Chris Cowen of Public Arts said: "The developers deserve credit for taking part in the per cent for art scheme.

"It isn't compulsory - and it's good for Bradford."

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