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D & L Blinds Revealing metal landmarks to the public view
Four large sculptures within Isambard Community School are only ever seen by the school community. Here,
Rollers • Verticals • Venetians
for the first time, Year 8 pupils Anna Scully and Vicki Egerton, below, describe how they came about.
Pleated Blinds • VELUX",
Conservatory Blinds The metal statues opposite the four wings of Isambard which
Made-to-Measure Curtains branch off the inside street in the middle of our school have
QUALITY BLINDS AT been here for about a year and were made by abstract artist,
Andy Hazel.
AFFORDABLE PRICES Isambard is split into four house contributed ideas
Fast and reliable service houses (earth, fire, air and water) for their statue and those _.
All blinds fitted free and each house is split into two ideas were taken away
Choose from a wide range classes (north and south). Each and made into something
of fabrics from the coin fort real. We also made tiles to
of your own home represent each house and
they are now on the base
Contact Paul on 01793 619428
of the sculptures.
www.dandlblinds.co.uk Because each sculpture
FREE QUOTES NO OBLIGATION
is abstract, each person
has a different interpreta-
tion of what they mean
Tailor.-made but here we describe what
you see if you walk by.
by SueLynn Earth statue isa column
of fossils with the earth on
Curtains top, a tyre round the earth then a In touch with nature
Pelmets city on the earth. The sculptures in our school
This is on top of caterpillar tracks Make us stand out,
Roman blinds A metal statue for each house,
and shows how we have developed
Swags & tails from creatures which became fos- They show that we belong.
Cushion covers sils to our modern technology. This Earth, our metal statue is precise
Fitting service available statue is outside the green wing of Buildings, the earth fossils and tracks,
the school. Tracks for our cars, buildings for life
No job too small Earth, our house is precise.
For further information call Fire, our metal statue is bold.
Sue: 01793 870451 or Volcanoes, matches, comets and fire
Lynn: on 01793 330595 Volcanoes for history, matches for
present
Fire our house is bold.
Air, our metal statue is calm
Hairdryer, cloud wings and plane
Clouds for peace, wings for grace
Air our house is calm.
Water our metal statue balanced
Submarine, fins, scales and tail
Fish for creatures. submarines, man-
kind
Fire's sculpture is the most Water our house is balanced.
obvious as to its meaning and it's
Each statue is a seat,
outside red wing. Fire statue has
To sit and reflect
a volcano erupting out of a box of
That we know our metal statues
matches at its base, with a comet
Will help us to belong.
on the very top.
Air, at the entrance to
yellow wing, is shaped
like a hairdryer with
wings, topped by a cloud
with the wings of an
aeroplane.
Water's sculpture, out-
sideblue wing, consists of
fish fins and tail and also
part of a submarine.
Right, tcacher Amber De-
Clcene with pupils
The Isambard sculptures
were funded by the North
Swindon Schools Art Pro-
gramme, part of the Percent
for Art agreement between
Swindon Borough Council
and PFI company Educa-
tion Support Swindon Ltd,
a John Laing plc company,
a project managed by the
Artpoint Trust