The ‘real’ Brummie family have been unveiled.

Two sisters and their children have been chosen to be immortalised in a new sculpture for Birmingham city centre by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing.

The statue, which will be unveiled outside the new Library of Birmingham in 2014, is the centrepiece of A Real Birmingham Family, a three year project led by local gallery Ikon which asks what it means to be a family today.

Roma and her sister Emma, along with their sons Kyan Ishann Jones and Shaye-Jones Amin, have been chosen from a shortlist of four families by a diverse panel of community, cultural and religious figures.

A total of 372 families nominated themselves to be part of the project. A fundraising campaign to raise the £100,000 needed to create the sculpture is now underway.