20.10.2011

IPAF art on show

When IPAF Germany considered how to make visitors at a health & Safety show stop and take note of its message, it decided to get artistic.

Working with students from the Wandsbek art school near Hamburg it devised a novel way to get the message across to thousands of visitors who would not normally tune in to aerial lift operator training.

So the team is painting an eight by four metre picture at the A+A health and safety exhibition in Düsseldorf, this week, celebrating “the art of IPAF”. The intention is to complete the painting within the four-days of the exhibition, which closes this evening.
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The artists get started

The students have received theoretical and practical training to use platforms safely and gain PAL Cards prior to the show so that they could work safely and confidently from the lifts on the IPAF stand. Their motto? - “No amateurs on my platform!”
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And thanks to the lifts reaching the work is easy

Intensive planning went into the creation of this work of art. The picture and colour composition was developed by the students in several workshops. The four student painters, Claudia Nikolaus, Tiki Gallina, Nicole Olejniuk and Yannick Riemer, were guided by their tutors, Eveline Petersen-Gröger and Stefan Kerp.
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Will it be completed though?

The screen was prepared so that the painting could start immediately the exhibition opened with the intention is that it will be fully complete by close of business today after having been active throughout the show.
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Finished!