Antony Gormley unveils tribute to jailed writers outside British Library

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The artist - who has been behind striking figures such as The Angel Of The North - has installed the sculpture as a permanent fixture outside the British Library.

The work, called Witness, has been created to mark the 90th anniversary of the organisation English Pen, which promotes the freedom to write and read.

The empty chair is a symbol used by English Pen to represent imprisoned writers for the past 30 years.

It joins another of his works and Newton by the late Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in the Library piazza.

Gormley said: "This is a place of witness, cast in massive iron that will simply rest, isolated, for anyone or no one to occupy."

Gillian Slovo, president of English Pen, said: "It will stand as tribute to, and reminder of, those writers who, because of censorship and tyranny, are not free to go to any library either in their countries or in ours, and at the same time recognises the work of Pen branches throughout the world in service of free expression."