Artistic commission for underwater specialist JFD

A company specialising in complex underwater operations has taken on an unusual task by teaming up with a sculpture artist.

Sculptures by Steven Claydon are pressure tested at the National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen. Picture: Mike Davidson/Positive Image

Subsea operations and manufacturing company JFD Global, which is part of James Fisher & Sons, explained that it subjected sculptures by London-based Steven Claydon to maximum-depth pressure testing at its National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen.

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The project involved two large wooden totem-like sculptures being immersed in the equivalent of 1,000 metres of sea water, with the process recorded using underwater cameras and a photographer took detailed images of the objects before and after the test.

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The venture was for the artist’s exhibition at The Common Guild in Glasgow, which addresses “the ideas of jeopardy and pressure”.

Martin Robb, JFD head of delivery, commercial services, said: “Our team is always excited to receive-out-of-the ordinary enquiries.”

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