Disco dudes and giant spoons: UK’s outdoor public sculptures are documented

Art UK creates digital database telling the stories behind more than 13,500 public artworks

Between two fields on the outskirts of a 1960s new town in Northumberland is a startling, track-stopping sculpture passed by on a regular basis by hardly anyone: it's a giant 15ft spoon.

Outside Dorset county hospital is a vizsla dog, always well behaved because it was made by Elisabeth Frink in bronze. On the Isle of Man the three disco dudes swaggering down the promenade are the Bee Gees.