Order and or disorder - weaponry - Throne of Guns - decomissioned weapons

Images from the Throne of Weapons display at the British Museum in London. The Tree of Life

detail of one of the animals made from gun parts around the base of the tree of life

Decomissioned weapons from the civil war in Mozambique in Africa were turned into Art by a group of African Artists including Cristovao Canhavato - stopping them being used again and showing that there is life and a long civil war

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Kester one of the Artists who worked with the decomissioned weapons

'Gun Sculpture' by Canadian artists Sandra Bromley and Wallis Kendal

made using 5 tonnes of decommissioned weaponry

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David Palmer builds up a layers of bullets then creates tones by scorching the metal ends of the bullets

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Mr Toledano

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Al Farrow
buildings made out of weaponry

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Pedro Reyes

decomissioned weapons made into instruments

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"Don't Touch" AK-47 by Nancy Fouts

"Where Souls Dwell" AK-47 by Laila Shawa

Weapons decomissioned by Cambodian government re-imagined by Sasha Constable

Weapons decomissioned by Cambodian government re-imagined by Sasha Constable

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