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Exciting exhibition comes to Scunthorpe gallery!

Exciting exhibition comes to Scunthorpe gallery!

British artist Dan Rawlings has taken over a former 19th-century church in Scunthorpe by installing a reclaimed oil tanker inside the space, one that he’s transformed with his famous freehand drawings of intricate foliage motifs, delicately cut into the giant vehicle’s steel body.

‘Future Returns’ features a massive vehicle which sits on top of nine tons of earth to create what Rawlings says is “an imagined, distant-future ‘truck in the wilderness’ landscape, creating a vision of a world where man’s impact is being slowly reclaimed by nature”.

It’s inspired by North Lincolnshire’s past and present industry and our complex relationship with industrial production and fossil fuels.

Much of Dan’s artwork and sculptures explores human exploitation of nature’s resources and natures ability to respond.

Dan Rawlings

The exhibition is currently erected in the Scunthorpe 20-21 Visual Art Centre, take a trip for yourself!

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.

Dan added ‘a lot of my work exists in this weird future where there are relics of industry being overtaken.

‘We’ve more than got the technology and the scientific ability to think about the future and to do things in a way that will stop pointlessly destroying everything.’

 

Mark Bickerdike

 

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