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
use the map to find the sculpture
Take a rubbing from the steel plaque in the passport booklet
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Dorman Long- Kev Howard
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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Gallery - Flame Flowers
images by Chris Chapman Visuals
Gallery - Black Path Flowers
images by Christine Corbett
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