AN eye-catching piece of art has been unveiled at the entrance of a park.

The archway, named Happenstance, is at south entrance of The Level Park in St Peter’s Place, Brighton.

Grant Shepherd and Leith Makenzie of Brighton-based Alter & Company Architects, won a competition to create the piece.

Mr Shepherd said: “Our approach to the design has been to embed the vast amount of history and memories collected at The Level over the past 300 years into a beautiful piece of interactive art.

“The idea of reflecting the silhouette of the overhanging trees at the entrance is that of an organic archway growing out from the existing elements of the park. There is also an integral notion in the ageing of the leaves, they begin to lose bits of their fabric and holes are left that physically become a memory of what used to be.”