Coke Ovens ‘Flame Flowers’

 

Steve Tomlinson

This work reflects the resilience of nature within Teesside’s industrial environment.

Juxta-positioning delicate flowers with hard, acid-etched, galvanised steel ‘Flame Flowers’ harks back to when this area saw coal burned at high temperatures to create coke and the subsequent re-emergence of flora and fauna.


How it works

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  • Take a rubbing from the steel plaque in the passport booklet

  • post a picture of your rubbing or a selfie with the sculpture

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Did you Know?

The Teesside Steelworks was a large expanse of steelworks that formed a continuous stretch along the south bank of the River Tees from Middlesbrough to Redcar. At its height there were 91 blast furnaces within a 10 mile radius of the area. By the late 1970s, there was only one left on Teesside.

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Industry in the Tees Valley


Gallery - Flame Flowers

images by Chris Chapman Visuals

Gallery - Black Path Flowers

images by Christine Corbett


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