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ID number: BIRRC-A0681 Institution: Research and Cultural Collections Named collection: Campus Collection of Fine and Decorative Art Artist / Maker: Bloye, William James (1890-1975) Title / Object name: Engineering Frieze Object type: Sculpture
Culture: British Date made: 1954 Materials: Stone
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This stylised Art Deco relief is set around the central motif of a lightning bolt and cogwheel, which represent Electrical and Mechanical Engineering coming together. The ten figures on either side (all male!) hold engineering tools, including a drawing board and T-square, plans, books and a lathe. The tutors on either side are the only figures to break free from the upper frame of the relief, demonstrating authority, a device which Bloye borrows from Egyptian art.
The inscription at the base is from Tennyson’s poem Ulysses, exhorting eternally restless aspiration: ‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’
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