A new multi-thousand-pound light installation broke over Christmas, five days after being unveiled.

Brighton and Hove City Council had to fix the £25,000 Electric Garden artwork at Madeira Terrace because of water damage.

The neon artwork, by Sussex artist Andy Doig who has a design studio in Madeira Drive, was revealed during the Burning The Clocks event on December 21.

It is a "garden" made up of sculpted glass tubes designed to echo and highlight the existing plant growth and lights and is lit between 4pm and 10pm every day.

Each tube has been made by hand from recycled glass at the artist’s studio.

A council spokesman said: “The light installation is working again. We had a problem on Boxing Day caused by a bit of water that had got into one element of it during the installation.

“This has now been fixed.”

Following concerns about the cost of the art, Brighton and Hove City Council said the work has already made a big difference to the terrace, which is due to undergo restoration work next autumn.

They said the artwork is “good value for money” and will attract more residents and visitors to the area over the winter months.

The council said the commission forms part of a new art programme for the terrace called Otherworlds.

The first part of the programme invited lighting artists to consider the site in relation to the “otherworldly” plant habitat that has grown there over the last 150 years, and to provide soft lighting to illuminate the area for the winter months.

When the dark nights are over it will be retained and used again in other parts of the terrace, the council said.

Otherworlds is the latest work resulting from the council’s public art strategy, which was launched in April, and marks the first phase of the terrace’s restoration.