Periodic Table - Bill Woodrow - inspired by Primo Levi - Art on the Cart

Art on the Cart was an initiative of the Southwark Council Arts Team to make art reach into every corner of the borough. Eight refuse trucks, dustcarts, in UK parlance, had vinyl cladding whose designs were based on artworks with a connection to the Borough of Southwark.
The Southwark Council website used to say the following about the artwork:
"Bill Woodrow trained at Winchester School of Art, St. Martins College of Art and Chelsea College of Art. He is an internationally recognised sculptor and artist and lives and works in SE5. He is a regular exhibitor at the South London Gallery.

In 1994 Woodrow produced a series of black and white linocuts that are based on chapters of Primo Levi's acclaimed book The Periodic Table. Primo Levi, 1919 to 87, trained as a chemist in the 1930s and, when imprisoned in Auschwitz during the war, was saved from death by being put to work in the camp’s laboratory. Around each element Levi weaves a tale that is both autobiographical and fictional. In Woodrow’s work each black and white linocut print identifies the element with its chemical name.

The images on the cart are of the Tin, Arsenic, Sulphur and Nickel linocuts".