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Bilston Job Centre facade

The brick relief panel was depicting former Bilston Industry measured 3m by 2.75m wide, and was commissioned by the Employment Service Agency. Sited on the Bilston High Street, in the West Midlands. The colours were created on the brick relief using coloured clay bodies and fired on engobes. Commissioned by the Employment Service Agency as a percent for art initiative for a new job centre.The panel showing what a busy place Bilston used to be, now with hardly any of those heavy industries left. What do people do there now?

Art for Architecture fine art public art sculpture by contemporary Scottish artists

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