The 20.25-metre (66.4 ft) tall sculpture stands on the pier at the entrance to the harbour in Ilfracombe, Devon, looking out over the Bristol Channel towards South Wales.

[1] The statue depicts a pregnant woman holding aloft a sword while carrying the scales of justice and standing on a pile of law books.

The stance has been described as a reference to Little Dancer of Fourteen Years by Edgar Degas, a c. 1880 work that previously inspired Hirst when he created Virgin Mother, another massive sculpture of a pregnant woman with her foetus exposed.

[2] Measuring 25 cm (10 inches) higher than the Angel of the North, Verity became the tallest statue in the UK when it was put into place,[3] but is now surpassed by The Kelpies, near Falkirk, Scotland, at 30 metres (98 ft).

In August 2013 councillors announced that the statue had a "tremendous effect" with people visiting the town solely to see Hirst's work.