Public Art in Ipswich
Ripple
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- By Jo Fairfax
- 2005
- Neptune Quay
This piece is in Neptune Marina, next to the entrance to Coffee Link. It is made from white copper tubing in the form of a ripple, suspended from the soffit. Four pre-programmed coloured spotlights illuminate the sculpture at night time, slowly changing colour throughout the evening.
Jo Fairfax has said that his ideas are developed in response to the specific project - therefore his ideas could result in almost anything. Everything can be an influence to him, it might be a fish or music or a conversation or starlings or robotic surveillance.
Fairfax graduated in 1979 and went on to work on gallery based sculpture. In 1996 he trained in Holography at the Royal College of Art and subsequently moved into the Public Art arena, making Holograms within glass, public sculptures, urban design, illuminating buildings and making films and animations. He has recently received a NESTA Fellowship.
Photographs by Richard Davies, Courtesy of Commissions East
Other Public Art nearby: The Waterfront and University.
Last Updated: Wednesday 7th April 2010
Further pages in Public Art in Ipswich
- Exploring Ipswich's Public Art
- Navigator
- Spiral Vortex
- Rhumba
- Orchard life
- Sor of Hing
- Untitled - 3 Enamel Panels
- Lightships
- Against the tide
- Ripple You are here
- Cineworld Bollards
- Clasped Hands and bench
- Propellor
- Prince Alexander Obolensky
- Cranes Tableau
- St Mary Elms Triptych
- Tutu
- Sir Bobby Robson
- Sir Alf Ramsey
- Handstanding
- Making Our Mark
- African Garden
- Formation
- Green Wind
- Suffolk Trinity
- Ipswich Madonna
- Barley Sculpture
- Trident and Nets
- Man and Ball
- Rubber artwork - Untitled
- Panel celebrating Peter Bruff
- Spirit of Youth
- The Trawlerman
- Sprites Lane - Four wall relief works
- Triple Mycomorph (Fungus Form)
- Ship
- Major
- A Quick Step to Recovery
- Decorative Church Gate
- Foxgrove Band gates
- The Longship Screens
- Giles' Family
- Beyond the Horizon
- Flightpost
- Tam
- Innocence
- The Life of the River Gipping
- Swans
- Mosaic
- Three Angels
- Crows Nest
- Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
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