The art of bespoke lifting systems
April 1st 2006

Lifting Gear Hire has provided a bespoke lifting solution to the Storey Gallery in Lancaster. The Storey Gallery commissioned Richard Wilson, sculptor and installation artist, to create a major piece of dynamic artwork entitled 'Queen and Gantry', featuring a door frame complete with pediment, architrave and entablature, which could be traversed up and down the gallery.

Lifting Gear Hire had to overcome two problems.

Firstly they had to suspend the door frame on an angle, then enable its travel along a 15m long gallery. At the same time, the doorframe needed to climb and descend a significant incline as it traversed through the gallery.

Lifting Gear Hire and its bespoke design and engineering division, Lifting Gear Engineering developed a safe, cost effective solution using four mobile gantries that were fitted to cover the length of the room and connected by a runway system.