Courtesy Ebbsfleet Landmark Project Ltd.

A rendering of Mark Wallinger's horse looking out across the Ebbsfleet site

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Best known for dressing as a bear, the artist now turns his sights to planning the world’s largest scuplture: a 164-foot-high horse nicknamed the “Stallion of the South.”

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Wallinger’s gargantuan work beat out proposals by Richard Deacon (a steel latticework nest) and Daniel Buren (a tower of stacked cubes).

The horse, which has been nicknamed the "Stallion of the South" (in reference to Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North in Gateshead), is expected to be completed in 2012. But Wallinger still needs to submit a planning application, and the local government will have the final word on whether the project will go forward.

Despite reports of local resistance to the project, Victoria Pomery, the chair of the project's selection committee, is confident it will happen. "Mark is a superb artist of world renown, and his sculpture will become a real landmark for Ebbsfleet and the whole region," she said.

Wallinger, who won the Turner Prize in 2007, said that he was “honored that the horse went through.”