Fire Sculpture for the Fire and Steel Festival

This is our Fire Sculpture depicting an ironstone miner, a crucible of molten steel and a steelmaker we created for the Fire and Steel Festival. There's a lot of preparation involved in a Fire sculpture, the day before we construct a scaffold frame which is then covered with metal mesh panels. The day of the fire sculpture is spent drawing the design onto the frame using paper rope soaked in paraffin.

The blast furnace in the background

Putting the mesh onto the scaffold frame

Soaking paper rope in paraffin

We have an audience already!

All done, just time for a hot chocolate before it's lit!

The fire swingers, Cathie Sprague and Mark Taylor, light the sculpture

The fire sculpture fully lit.

Here's a short video I took...