If you wandered into Manchester Art Gallery today you would find yourself admiring an awful lot of scaffolding.
On today’s to-do list we are setting up one of the outdoor sculptures Fruit Cake and installing Hwarang, a pair of marble lions covered in delicate crochet which will guard the front entrance and sit on either side of the stairs. To place the lions on the high up plinths, a gantry will be needed to raise them up, and then the technicians will move them into place. Not only does the gallery need to make sure the equipment is hefty enough for this particular job, but actually we had to reinforce under the floor as well! So below the floor in the entrance we erected structural support scaffolding which will be dismantled once the lions are in their place.
Day 2 installation
Day 2 installation
Day 2 installation
Day 2 installation
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Day 2 installation
We will have to disrupt our visitors who will not be able to go in through the front entrance while this nail biting installation is taking place but we hope that they will not mind using the side entrance on Princess Street temporarily. We are sure that the end result will be a very impressive and unusual sight in the entrance hall.