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>https://stpancras.com/news-events/launched-hms-alice-liddell>Following on from earlier announcements, we’re delighted to reveal the fantastical 'HMS Alice Liddell',our major new site-responsive art installation by Shezad Dawood, suspended mid-air in The Circle area of the station.>ABOUT HMS ALICE LIDDELL >The artworkreflects elements of William Henry Barlow’s innovative and radical engineering of the station itself, as well as Sir George Gilbert Scott’s gothic spires of the nowSt. Pancras Renaissance Hotel. This iconic architecture was formative to Dawood, who grew up locally and has a longstanding relationship with the area. Its aesthetic and cultural heritage is profoundly embedded in the work: the sculpture’s namesake is the real inspiration behind Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Carroll’s original manuscript is archived in the neighbouring British Library. Dawood’s work reclaims Alice as a traveller for our times: a proto-science fiction heroine who explored the quantum possibilities of multiple but connected realities and universes. >Suspended in space, and able to be enjoyed from multiple vantage points,HMS Alice Liddellis painted with a polychromatic finish, in a nod to the psychedelic colourways of imagined wonderlands and voyages to outer space, while also paying homage to the diversity of London’s communities. The work embodies a fantastical vision, where the past meets the future of travel, technology and collective experience, via the space of the imagination. 