May 2008JOHNSTOWN BOYS SCHOOL PROJECT STARTED
Hi All - Welcome to our first newsletter post. This is an opportunity for us to keep our friends and clients informed about our most recent projects month by month - hope you enjoy it!
At the end of last year one of the Triskill partners, Jay Roche, submitted a design for new site specific artwork for Johnstown Boys School, Dun Laoghaire under the percent for art scheme. Triskill undertook the manufacture and completion of the project and here is the first of seven mosaics that will be installed - We hope to have them all in place by the end of the summer. The theme was an ecological one with each mosaic showing some aspect of the environment that needs to be protected - this one represents Clean Air.
The mosaics are manufactured in the broken tile technique which is a relatively modern system and very suitable for these particular designs. There is a 3D element to the image, with one of the trees projecting from the surface of the tiles. It was tricky getting this to work but we finally got it to work. Our solution was so good we are going to keep it a secret...
The mosaics are manufactured in the broken tile technique which is a relatively modern system and very suitable for these particular designs. There is a 3D element to the image, with one of the trees projecting from the surface of the tiles. It was tricky getting this to work but we finally got it to work. Our solution was so good we are going to keep it a secret...
The images below show the development of the mosaic.
We'll keep you updated on progress and any other projects we are involved in - see you next month!
