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 | After a great struggle to complete the work, the lights were finally switched on for the completion of the Erith Earth Core Columns. The five columns rising from the pedestrian underpass are constructed from metal and Venetian Glass Smalti, the top three columns (pictured above) consist of rings of polished steel and transparent smalti. Whilst the lower columns, the tallest of which is 5metres high, use coloured glass smalti with Corten, copper, bronze and steel. |  | ||
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Master Class at the Gary will be holding a special advanced mosaic class on the Indirect technique for large scale mosaic murals this October at the Chicago Mosaic School.. Places will be very limited for this one off 5 day intensive course. Book your place today. | |||||||||
ANDAMENTO The long awaited journal from the British Association of Modern Mosaic (BAMM). Six in depth essays on contemporary mosaic, 40 pages in full colour available here:- |  | ||||||||
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 | It was 20 YEARS AGO - It was about twenty years ago now that Gary completed a 64 foot long mural depicting the story of Oliver Twist as a 'Slice of Life in the London of 1837'. The Oliver Twist story was first published in 1837 so this was commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary. The mural was painted in signwriters enamels onto board and fixed in a corridor at the North Middlesex Hospital. |  | |||||||
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 | Friends! Romans! Countrymen... Here's one for all those fans of the recent HBO series ROME... Remember that flamboyant town cryer? The photo was taken at the judging day at this years RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The 'Scent of a Roman' show garden won a Silver medal and featured this Drostle Roman relic Medusa Mosaic. The Medusa was a common image in Classical mosaics as it was thought to ward of evil spirits and may be the ancestor of those blue eye medallions of modern Greece and Turkey. Are those Roman sandals? | ||
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PROJECTS 2006-2007
Erith Cross Keys Frieze mosaic Trompe L'oeil mosaic Holyhead - Celtic Gateway mosaics Pedestrian link for rail station 7.5m mosaic sculpture landmark Giant mosaic and metal columns A new twist on the mosaic pond Nursery School Playground | AWARD NEWS The Erith Fish sculpture has just received the second prize in the prestigious Rouse Kent Public Art Award. Chaired by art critic, art historian, broadcaster, and writer on Art for the Times and New Statesman. Gary was also recently presented with his certificate of award for the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship by the Lord Chamberlain the Earl Peel, pictured below... Yes that is Gary, wearing a suit and tie... you might not see that again soon! | |||||
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