The Wonderful World of Welded Art

.The promotion of the importance and value of welding to a country, and as a career for young people, is essential to continually realise the benefits of welding and requires some key marketing tools. Recognition, both to individuals and companies, through awards, competitions and exhibitions helps to both create the correct culture and raise the profile of welding-related technologies. This paper attempts to show how the use of welded art in many countries, and now globally through the promotion and encouragement of the International Institute of Welding (IIW), is doing this with the support of numerous categories of people. Whether using existing or emerging technologies, career artists, hobby artists, educators, young artists, students developing careers in welding, researchers and welded art networks, are all achieving some wonderful outcomes. Many of the outcomes of organisations, people, exhibitions, competitions and collections referred to in the paper, can be viewed through the links given.