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Tankers and Transit vans sculpted into steel forests
Artist Dan Rawlings has transformed a petrol tanker from a functional vehicle carrying fossil fuels into a work of intricate industrial beauty, with a message about the power of nature.
Rawlings spent four months carving out the tank to leave only a steel skeleton of tree trunks, branches and brambles, turning this once-polluting vessel into a 3D forest sculpture.
There is "definitely an environmental message", the artist says. His designs are meant to represent nature reclaiming man-made objects.
"A lot of my work exists in this weird future where there are relics of industry being overtaken." Rawlings is now exhibiting the tanker at the 20-21 arts centre, which is in a former church in Scunthorpe, the North Lincolnshire steel town.
Full story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57513965
Artist Dan Rawlings has transformed a petrol tanker from a functional vehicle carrying fossil fuels into a work of intricate industrial beauty, with a message about the power of nature.
Rawlings spent four months carving out the tank to leave only a steel skeleton of tree trunks, branches and brambles, turning this once-polluting vessel into a 3D forest sculpture.
There is "definitely an environmental message", the artist says. His designs are meant to represent nature reclaiming man-made objects.
"A lot of my work exists in this weird future where there are relics of industry being overtaken." Rawlings is now exhibiting the tanker at the 20-21 arts centre, which is in a former church in Scunthorpe, the North Lincolnshire steel town.
Full story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57513965
