Birmingham (UK) 2022 Commonwealth Games Mechanical Bull

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Artem special effects company. Birmingham (UK) 2022 Commonwealth Games Mechanical Bull. Installation Location: Network Rail, Birmingham New Street Station.

As of October 2023, extensively covered with images on the web, including

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-64558596>

<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/08/raging-bull-to-be-given-home-at-birmingham-new-street-station>

Other links, as of October 2023, here.[1]


The bull is to be called "Ozzy," after Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne.[2] Students of English literature might hear an echo of "Ozymandias" in the poem by that name by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818).[3]

See for a monumental work combining the organic and the mechanical in the figure of a magnificent bull. Cf. and emphatically contrast the biomechanicals of H. R. Giger.


RDE, with thanks to FarahM et al., finishing, 13Oct23