Public Art in Ipswich
Panel celebrating Peter Bruff
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- By Alex Potter
- 2001
- Perspex and Fibre Optic
- Ipswich Station
This piece of art can be found in the ticket office of the Ipswich mainline railway station. It was commissioned by Anglia Railways with Railtrack. Unfortunately the lighting makes it very hard to get a good look.
It is a commemorative piece celebrating local engineering entrepreneur Peter Bruff who died around 1900. He designed and built Ipswich's sewer system, the train tunnel near Ipswich Station and Clacton and Walton Piers.
It is 4m wide, 1.5m high and 50cm deep, and is made up of five layers of 10mm thick Perspex. The artist etched and painted five different designs onto each panel, and split each panel into a smaller section.
The designs were taken from historical records of the work of Peter Bruff, sections of photos of the latest trains, and abstract images relating to engineering structures and plans.
There is a fibreoptic light box behind the bulkhead of the ticket office and these lights are intended to give the piece a wash of moving colour.
Other Public Art nearby: Ipswich Village and the Riverside.
Last Updated: Friday 9th 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
- 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 BruffYou are here
- 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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