Specialist printing company, Denny Bros, commissioned the artist and musician Kate Jackson to create two pieces of work to adorn the company’s ground floor entrance of its headquarters, and as part of the project have donated £2,000 to support the charity Suffolk Mind.
Art for mental health
“We have been wanting some relevant artworks to greet people as they arrive at Denny Bros as we have a lot of visitors to our site,” said Graham Denny, managing director of Denny Bros. “I knew of Kate through her music and her art. She is particularly known for featuring industrial buildings in her work. I saw the sleeve she had designed for the ‘Sound of Sugar Town’ record featuring the sugar beet factory in Bury St Edmunds and I thought she would be exactly the right artist for us. The art has been very well received and our marketing team has now commissioned Kate for another project helping to design an exhibition stand.”
The two pieces of art, housed in the company’s headquarters in Kempson Way, Bury St Edmunds, are a unique interpretation of the building itself, which has been titled ‘Sunrise over Denny Bros’ and an illustration of the company’s printing process, which has been called ‘CMYK YMCK’.
“I wanted to produce something that would allow people to see an industrial building in a different way,” added Jackson. “In terms of the second work of art, around the printing press fingerprinting test, I was given a tour of the factory and these colours really caught my eye.”
Denny Bros with Kate Jackson
“We have wanted some artwork for quite a while and it was great to be able to combine this with the contribution to a mental health charity,” Denny continued. “As a company, we are acutely aware that there can be a lack of suitable resources for those needing support for mental health issues and how vital the work done by charities like Suffolk Mind is for many people. We were keen to do a small bit to help.”