BRAY MOSAIC PROJECT

July 2008


                          
New mosaic panel - Bray Dart Station (click on image for larger view)
             
Hi Everyone - Welcome to our monthly newsletter. We have a great new project to unveil which has been in the planning for the last three years and which we can now reveal has been officially started.
 
Let us explain - Back in 1987(!) two of the founder members of Triskill,  John Carter and Jay Roche won a competition to design a series of 19 murals at Bray Dart station, County Wicklow. They won, and completed the mural during the summer of that year. It has become a popular public artwork but has suffered from weather erosion over the years. It was therefore suggested a number of years ago that the mural could be saved by converting it to tile Mosaic which was one of the services Triskill had to offer. With this in mind we decided to generate funding to help turn the 19 panels into mosaic versions of the original pictures and along with Triskill partner Anthony Kelly to adapt and convert the mural into a new medium. 

                                                     View of platform 2, Bray Station.

With help from Arts consultancy company Works on Paper, we worked hard to get local businesses from Bray, Irish Rail, the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and companies connected with the station to generously donate money to fund the project. For their investment they get a panel devoted to them with a mosaic plaque that sits above a picture of their choice.

We have just completed the first of the panels which we installed in the station last week - it is manufactured in Vitra porcelain tile which we felt allowed us to reproduce as close to the original graphic style as possible. Below are a series of images which show the manufacture of the mosaic in our studio and it's installation in Bray Station. If you notice a film camera in some of the shots that's because there is a documentary being made by film-maker Denis McArdle on the Bray mosaic project. Plenty of opportunity for us to embarrass ourselves....

And just to remind everyone - there are still sponsorship opportunities available!


                         Studio shot with cartoon drawing and tiles

                                Grouting and Finishing

Work in progress...

                                                                                                                 

For more information on the Bray Mural and the Bray Mosaic project take a look at our new blog which will keep you up to date on developments -

mural-to-mosaic.blogspot.com