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		<title>Face Of Wigan Sculpture By Rick Kirby</title>
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Birch Engineering has been approached by Rick Kirby to construct a stainless steel frame for his latest work
The face has taken Rick four months to create in his own work shop before being transprted to Birch for the manufacture of the structual framework to begin.
The overall size of the face is 4.5M in Height and 3M in [...]]]></description>
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<p>Birch Engineering has been approached by Rick Kirby to construct a stainless steel frame for his latest work</p>
<p>The face has taken Rick four months to create in his own work shop before being transprted to Birch for the manufacture of the structual framework to begin.</p>
<p>The overall size of the face is 4.5M in Height and 3M in width.</p>
<p>The face will be with Birch for the next 4 weeks while the framework is installed and the rear of the face finished before being transported to Wigan for installation.</p>
<p>More of Rick Kirby&#8217;s work can be found on his website <a href="http://www.rickkirby.com">www.rickkirby.com</a></p>

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