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Capel Bryn

By  Richard Janes 2006

Richard Janes

Dimensions
400cm x 200cm x 240cm

Courtesy of
Millennium Commission

Gazebo built into the side of reclaimed slag heap, designed to resemble a drift mine turf roof. The sculpture was designed as a chapel of remembrance to the dead coal mining industry and to miners killed in the works.
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Ascension

Stringed Form

Frond

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