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Mirror, mirror on the ball
Kids tinker. Adults tinker. In the Raikes family, serious tinkering has led to the invention of gleaming stainless steel spheres with industrial and artistic applications.
Lincoln Raikes heads up Global Stainless Ltd in Normanby, South Taranaki. The company produces graceful sculptures now resident in South Korea, Singapore and New York. It's now producing a fourth artwork for world- renowned artist Anish ... Read MoreSpheres add special touch to Oz show
Global Stainless, just like many local businesses, is lending a helping hand to Hawera Repertory's production of the Wizard of Oz. Lincoln Raikes, the owner of the company, says he is delighted to help Repertory with a couple of special props.
Based in a modest workshop in Normanby, Global Stainless produces world-class products that are used internationally; many in London artist Anish ... Read MoreTurning Engineering into Art
A small Taranaki company has forged a link with a top contemporary artist, proving that skills honed in the region’s dairying and engineering industries are right up there alongside the world’s best. Normanby company Global Stainless, which comprises just five staff, created the components of leading artist Anish Kapoor’s towering Tall tree and the eye, which has been exhibited at some ... Read MoreGlobal significance for Stainless Steel.
This gleaming sculpture - Tall Tree and The Eye - graces the Annenberg Courtyard exhibition space at the Royal Academy in London.
The arresting sculpture stands a staggering 15m tall - as high as the surrounding buildings - and consists of 76 highly polished balls that appear to bubble weightlessly up towards the sky. The mirror-like stainless spheres create consistently changing ... Read More{NEXTPREV_ALT=4,10,0,https://www.globalstainlessartworks.com/modules/SP_News/news.php?archive=09.2013&p=[FROM]}