A 25-foot-long fiberglass and steel shark sculpture embedded head-first into the roof of an otherwise-ordinary home in the eastern suburbs of Oxford, The owner extracted the 25-foot-long shark sculpture in protest immediately after it was recognized as a heritage site.
City Council members in Oxford voted earlier in the month to add the protest artwork to its Heritage Asset Register along with 16 other sites. Officially named the Headington Shark, the sculpture was installed on the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki in 1986 as a powerful anti-war.
When Bill Heine installed a 7.6-metre fiberglass shark crashing through his roof in 1986, the Oxford City Council fought him at every step. Now, 36 years later, the council has made the sculpture a heritage site.