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
14 comments:
Wow, the detail. Fantastic work, and in such a great location! Great work.
Just had another good look thru the work... Really impressive workmanship and design. You've left your mark.
Thanks Mike! Thanks for checking out the blog - It's a great project that we have been waiting years to do - keep an eye on mural-to-mosaic.blogspot.com for further developments
sam said: putting bray on the tourist trail! we'll make a trip there as soon as we're able. i never really saw the originals but i've always loved mosaic... it's the greek and roman scholar in me!
congratulations Triskill!!!!, what a special job after over 20 years!
Finally... And I was beginning to think it was all a dream...
Doesn't it look amazing? I am so proud!
it really looks amazing, and I can say I say the original ones many many times,the mosaic looks so special... and done by the same artists! what a project!
thanks Marta - hopefully we will be finished when you get back home!
This is amazing! Glad to see it is finally happening, and the mosaic is beautiful. Can't wait to see the rest of the panels as they are done. I'll keep an eye on that blog.
I've always loved this series of pictures. It's fantastic to see that they are being preserved. Hard to believe that they will probably still be there in some form in 300 years or more.
300 or maybe even 2000, if the wall is built as well as Roman ones.
Just had a look at the mosaics, they are amazing, can't wait to see it finished. I love mosaics and working with glass. I have been talking about doing a mural outside my kitchen window for years, you have inspired me to get working on it.
Amazing work, well done, it's very beautiful. All railway stations should have a mosaic!
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