The weather has been more than kind for the building of the first Jetty project artwork. Five construction maintenance students from Gateshead College have begun work under the direction of Dave Purvis from Mears. This week has mostly been about preparing the site and getting the equipment and aquadyne there.
Perhaps the most strenuous activity was in drawing the circle that will form the base of Cone, a task that Wolfgang assumed with the help of Charles Blackett Ord. The aquadyne has also been delivered, and cleaned up responsibly of course. By the end of week one, the students had taken us up to around 1.5 metres and we await the delivery of scaffold next week to continue the job.
Related News
Day 5 of Construction
In the flurry of activity surrounding Cone, I managed to have several conversations with Wolfgang about the work. He spoke of his previous architectural-scale projects where he increasingly recognises that it is important that people make sense of the artwork themselves; from the apprentices who help construct it, to the people who view it. The…
Artwork under Construction
The first artwork by Wolfgang Weileder as part of the Jetty project: Art & Sustainability will begin construction this month – June 2014. Return here for further updates or sign up for our RSS feed…