Brainstorm

Brainstorm

A series of five small platforms with metal sculptures of scientists undertaking a range of different of activities around a central sculpture of a brain

Commissioned by Suffolk County Council in 2009 this public art work is in Gainsborough Community Library in Ipswich. Brainstorm was a work that emerged over the course of an 18 month period at the Gainsborough Library in Ipswich. As the project progressed it was informed by workshop discussions with the users to get to the core of what the library was about. The brain sculpture is suspended at the centre of the library to celebrate the building as storehouse of human knowledge and a place of inspiration for the whole community with its digital sound studio, community rooms, activity programme, cafe, garden, graffiti wall and children's area. Every few months a silver tube appeared on the brain reaching out like a communication line to join onto another platform on the wall. The platforms have three-dimensional scientist figures on them carrying out demonstrations of science, art, history, literature and nature: tableaus of human endeavour across the disciplines.

Made by

Paul Richardson

Materials

steel

Finishes

painted

Availability

sold

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