Builders' merchant a fitting host for homage to brickwork art.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: May 10, 2005 | Copyright information

A BUILDERS' merchant will become a gallery for a new brickwork art piece.

Richard Williams Ltd is one of many unusual venues in Ruthin to host art work for this year's Focal Festival, which starts on June 25.

Others include an electrical goods shop and a travel agent. The piece was commissioned by the Ruthin's Festival of Contemporary Art and Light to celebrate a ground-breaking sculpture by the artist Carl Andre.

Andre's Firebricks piece caused a...

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