The design of the Baton which will carry the Queen’s Message to athletes ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games has been revealed.
It is the work of Zimbabwe-born, Coventry-based artist Laura Nyahuye, chief executive of Maokwo, a not-for-profit company which promotes minorities through art.
It has been made in conjunction with Raymont-Osman Product Design, a design and engineering company, and development specialists Kajul, both based in Warwickshire.
The Baton has been deliberately cast in non-precious metals – copper, aluminium and brass – to represent the gold, silver and bronze medals at the Games themselves.
It was made in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, using the traditional method of lost-wax casting.
This provides a link with the very first silver- gilt Queen’s Baton, which was also manufactured by a company in the Jewellery Quarter before the 1958 Cardiff Games.
It is scheduled to visit all 72 Commonwealth Games nations and territories in a 294-day journey which culminates in Birmingham.
Commonwealth Games Federation President Dame Louise Martin is set to join the Queen at Buckingham Palace for the grand start next Thursday (October 5).
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