Bolt on

摘要

Artist Liam Curtin has been indulging his childhood obsessions on a commission that opened last month on the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal - his Meccano Bridge. The £90,000 public artwork was commissioned by Bolton Council and funded by Section 106 agreement from a nearby housing development. Curtin, a potter before he went into public art, had been thinking about an artwork for the area and was drawn to the canal and the local communities' wish to re-establish a connection over it. Curtin's work scales up the famous toy by a factor of 10.