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News Release from: British Stainless Steel Association
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 December 2002
Sculpture shows off stainless-steel
skills
The BSSA and some of its members have assisted young people from around the country to create a stainless-steel sculpture for display on Salford Quays opposite the Lowry Gallery.
The British Stainless Steel Association and some of its members have assisted young people from around the country to create a stainless steel sculpture which is now scheduled for a permanent siting on Salford Quays opposite the Lowry Gallery The novel stainless sculpture inspired by the artist Lowry, formed the centre piece of the SkillWeld stand at SkillCity, a recent four day event at Salford Quays, where more than 80,000 young people from all over the country had the opportunity to gain first hand experience of more than 100 vocational skills
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 16 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designed by Jason Boothroyd and a team of students from Manchester College of Arts and Technology, the sculpture depicts a man and his dog, two children playing football and a lamppost.
Assisted by welding engineers John Pearsall and Les Ness and artist Tim Tolkien, great nephew of JR Tolkien, author of "Lord of the rings", the figures were constructed from small pieces of stainless-steel plate and tube, welded together by students from six different FE colleges.
The sections were assembled at Mitsui Babcock and completed by the ten finalists of this year's SkillWeld competition.
BSSA members AvestaPolarit and Metalfin contributed the stainless-steel plate and tube and Stainless Restoration chemically cleaned the components of the sculpture.
Partner organisation Metskill provided career information for young people in the metals industry on the SkillWeld stand.
The Association of Welding Distributors acted as the main co-ordinator of the project with Arts and Business providing financial support.
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