Newsubstance creates 35-metre-tall See Monster from North Sea gas rig
An art installation featuring a waterfall, a wild garden and a number of kinetic artworks has opened on a former North Sea offshore gas platform in Weston-super-Mare, England, as part of the Unboxed festival.
Created for the Unboxed festival, which has been dubbed the Brexit festival, the four-storey See Monster is one of the UK's largest public art installations.
The See Monster sits on the beach in Weston-super-Mare
Designed by creative studio Newsubstance, the 450-tonne platform offshore gas platform sits in a shallow pool on the Weston-super-Mare seafront. A 10-metre-high waterfall cascades from the platform's lowest level.
See Monster's top levels hold a wild garden with grasses, trees and plants suitable for the Atlantic weather.
A waterfall cascades from the rig's lowest level The art installation also features a multi-level slide, a broadcast studio and a seated amphitheatre, while the gas platform's former helideck now functions as a viewpoint.
According to Unboxed: Creativity in the UK's chief creative officer, Martin Green, the installation aims to showcase how industrial structures can be reused.
"The transformation of a decommissioned platform into one of the UK's most ambitious public art installations has been an unprecedented undertaking and offers a blueprint for the reuse of industrial structures that everyone involved should be proud of," Green said.
The 450-tonne platform is one of the largest art installations in the UK
The artworks on the pl...
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