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Bradford Council, BD: is LIT local commission

Lighting up Bradford one tuktuk at a time

There are more than 277,000 trucks on Pakistan’s roads. With their heavy loads, they crawl through the country's highways, valleys, and roads. The country depends on these trucks for most of it’s transportation needs but, they also fill another need; a platform to parade the country’s culture.

In Pakistan, most trucks are vivid showpieces of extravagant design and are decorated with poetry, ornate striping, fish, peacocks, flowers, politicians, movie stars, cricketers, and singers. They wobble along the highways with intricate wooden frames and metal work that glitters in the sun and bells and pom poms swinging from the undercarriage. These trucks are statements, and at the very heart of Pakistani culture and identity.   

The Leap has commissioned Bradford-based artists, Zareena Bano and Aamta-Tul Waheed in collaboration with expert truck art artists based in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The artwork will be created through the artists working with people from Bradford and Middlesbrough's communities to design their creative ideas in the style and heritage of Pakistani truck art.

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