Tin will be unveiled in the autumn

Gereon Krebber's work, Tin, is a giant tin with the top left slightly ajar.

Mr Krebber says the work reflects his notion that "beyond literal legibility and metaphorical ideas, my sculptures should be ambivalent in their meaning and identity".

A sister award to the Jerwood Prize for paintings, each winner of the sculpture prize will be sited in a park at Witley Court, near Worcester.

The Jerwood Charitable Foundation said it received 90 proposals for the sculpture, and when completed, Tin will be unveiled in autumn 2003.

Judges praised its "great intellectual depth and exceptional beauty", and said an aluminium sculpture would look "outstanding" in the park.

The panel comprised the park's curator Rosemary Barnett, architect Rick Mather, sculptor Peter Randall-Page, critic and lecturer Rachel Withers, and Madeleine Bessborough, director of the New Arts Centre in Wiltshire.

Emerging talent

Mr Krebber graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2002, and he has already taken part in a show at central London's Atrium Gallery.

He has also won two prizes in London, the Deutsche Bank Pyramid and Remet Art Award, and Germany's Forder Preis der Stadt Gelsenkirchen.

The Jerwood Sculpture Prize, first awarded in 2001, is meant to encourage and reward emerging talent in outdoor sculpture, and is open to sculptures who have graduated from art college within the last 15 years.

A maquette of the winning sculpture, as well as the other seven nominees, will be on display at the Jerwood Space in Southwark, London until 23 March.