“It was not envisaged by the festival that sculpture would be a really major component but that’s what happened,” Lovell said.
She added that it had been particularly good for enabling younger artists to try their craft.
“It was really giving very young artists their first opportunity,” she said.
“They weren’t always successful, they didn’t have to be, but it was a way of testing out ideas in public.
“Watching the public interact with the works was an absolutely brilliant experience.”
She added the idea was to use art as part of regeneration.
“I think it achieved its aims,” she said.
“It’s now widely accepted that art is an essential element in that process.”
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