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News Release from: Braby | Subject: Artistic side
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 May 2006
Aluminium and stainless steel silos go
artistic
Braby, the UK's leading manufacturer of aluminium and stainless steel silos, has been showing its artistic side.
Braby, the UK's leading manufacturer of aluminium and stainless steel silos, has been showing its artistic side The Bristol-based firm is used to working with a range of different businesses, from food producers to pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing silos and storage tanks, but recently was given an entirely different brief
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company was commissioned by two artists to create four elegant stainless steel sculptures, which, on June 1 will be unveiled at Penrose Quay in Cork, Ireland.
The sculptures are the brainchild of Daphne Wright, an artist and sculptor who lives in Bristol and Cork-based theatre director Johnny Hanrahan.
They were designed following a brief set by Cork City Council, which stated that a piece of art should be created to honour the thousands of people who have emigrated from Penrose Quay since the 1920s.
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The structures, which are four metres in height, are not only art for the eyes, but also for the ears, and have speakers which play various different sounds including speech, music and nautical sounds, to represent the experiences and emotions associated with emigration out of Ireland.
Paul Mayer is Sales and Marketing Director at Braby, he said: "Although we haven't done any work with artists before, when we were approached about the sound posts we knew it was something we wanted to be involved in, because it is such an unusual and interesting project.
"We have used polished stainless steel to create the posts, which means they have a seamless shiny finish that appears as one large piece of metal.
The sound posts are imposing structures which gradually taper towards the top.
We had to manufacture each post with extreme care to ensure that they had an elegant and uniform appearance." And Ms Wright said: "A few years ago I saw Braby loading six large silos onto boats down at the Cumberland Basin in Bristol, and was impressed.
It really struck me how extraordinary the craftsmanship was, so decided to make a note of the manufacturer.
The sculptures for the Cork project had to appear smooth and elegant, so it was very important to get the right manufacturer.
I remembered Braby from a few years before and approached them about the job." Mr Mayer continues: "The designs were so elegant; we knew we had to create something really special to do them justice.
And it is great that we have made an artists' vision into a reality.".
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