The project is part of a new public art programme entitled Deep Time ... Cumbrian coast by proposing an artwork that transforms a slag heap at Millom into a precise sculptural form.

What if you could enter the room where Van Gogh’s potato eaters sit having their evening fare of baked potatoes? You would not be merely looking at them from a location and space that is ...

Rather, the vision on offer is of Britain as an apocalyptic inner-city slag heap, blighted by burned-out buildings and upturned cars: a defunct kingdom riven, almost, by civil war.

Barry Stewart, an ecologist from Swansea, has observed how slag heaps have self-seeded with plants which are on the edge of extinction in Wales. He is now working with Carmarthenshire council to ...