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Art as industrial heritage: deindustrialisation and public sculpture in Britain’s steel-making regions, 1976–2020

Louise Miskell Orcid Logo, Hilary Orange Orcid Logo, Gemma Almond-Brown

Social History, Volume: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 510 - 542

Swansea University Authors: Louise Miskell Orcid Logo, Hilary Orange Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/03071022.2024.2389627

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This study analyses the emergence of steel industry-related public sculpture in Britain in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The creation of these sculptures is viewed as part of the response of local authorities, artists and community groups to the large-scale loss of steel-makin...

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ISSN: 0307-1022 1470-1200
Published: Informa UK Limited 2024
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title Art as industrial heritage: deindustrialisation and public sculpture in Britain’s steel-making regions, 1976–2020
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Hilary Orange
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description This study analyses the emergence of steel industry-related public sculpture in Britain in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The creation of these sculptures is viewed as part of the response of local authorities, artists and community groups to the large-scale loss of steel-making jobs and infrastructure in Britain since the mid-1970s. It posits that the rapid demolition of redundant steelworks plants after closure erased many of the physical reference points to steelmaking in its traditional heartlands, creating a material void which public sculpture has helped to fill. While belief in the ability of public art to stimulate urban regeneration lay behind the commissioning of many of these sculptures, especially from the 1990s onwards, we argue that they make more sense when viewed as a form of industrial heritage. Sometimes depicting the skills, clothing or iconic structures associated with steel, sculptures provided visual references to the industry, often in places where it no longer existed, thus becoming important sites of steel industry memory in Britain.
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