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The North East of has developed an MAP 1 MAP 4 acclaimed reputation for combining world class a VANE Contemporary Art j Workplace culture with regeneration, and public art now 0191 261 8281 www.workplacegallery.co.uk plays an important role within our public www.vane.org.uk b Waygood Gallery buildings and spaces in Tyne and Wear. 0191 265 6857 MAP 5 www.waygood.org k Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art There are 9 maps to help you explore public art 0191 514 1235 across Tyne and Wear, discover great museums, MAP 2 www.ngca.co.uk c Globe City l Sunderland Museum and new art galleries and see how artists have 0191 2221666 Winter Garden contributed to the area from Victorian statues www.globegallery.org www.twmuseums.org. d uk/sunderland/ to contemporary art. 0191 232 7734 www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing MAP 6 The TyneWear Partnership champions economic e University Gallery 0191 227 4424 m National Glass Centre development, regeneration and culture. By 2023 we want online.northumbria. 0191 515 5555 to be one of Europe’s fastest growing Metropolitan areas ac.uk/gallery/ www.nationalglasscentre.com f Hatton Gallery driving the economic and cultural life of the North East. 0191 222 6059 MAP 7 We would like everyone in Tyne and Wear to share this www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton/ n Customs House vision. www.tynewearpartnership.org 0191 454 1234 MAP 3 www.customshouse.co.uk To find out more about public art in the North East of g Side gallery 0191 2322208 MAP 9 England please visit www.commissionsnorth.org www.amber-online.com o Globe Hub h Baltic Centre for 0191 2592614 Contemporary Art www.globegallery.org 0191 478 1810 www.visitsunderland.com www.balticmill.com www.visitnewcastlegateshead.com i The Sage Gateshead www.gateshead.gov.uk 0191 443 4661 www.visitsouthtyneside.co.uk www.thesagegateshead.com www.visitnorthtyneside.com www.visitnorthumbria.com Eldon Square 15 GALLOWGATE 13 9 Newcastle NEWGATE STRE 14 11 Chinatown 12 16 This route is approximately 1.75 miles and flat. The Grainger Theatre Gate Market 17 Royal 10 NUN ST Grainger Town GREY STREET STOWELL STREET b 1 BATH LANE Bigg 1 Vulcan – Sir Eduardo Paolozzi 5 Grainger Town Map – Market 14 Head Cubes – Simon Watkinson 8 CLAYTON STREET (2000) bronze Tod Hanson & Simon Watkinson GRAINGER STREET (2002) perspex cubes with glass Eduardo Paolozzi was born in (2003) bronze and granite WESTGATE ROAD MOSELEY STREET 4 Perspex cubes are set into the floor Edinburgh in 1924, and his images This playful map of Newcastle’s 7 18 around the plinth of Grey’s Monument are drawn from an interest in post-war Grainger Town focuses on the 4 3 and are castings taken from the Earl’s science, technology and the mass 5 architectural landmarks from Central NEVILLE ST head on the monument. The artist was media. Vulcan by Eduardo Paolozzi is Station to Greys Monument. Artist 6 inspired by the story of Earl Grey’s head over 7 metres tall and was Simon Watkinson said: “we wanted to being knocked off the Grey’s commissioned by Parabola Estates for make something more interesting than Central Station Monument by a bolt of lightening. their award winning Central Square just a flat map. We had the idea of it 1 building. The appears to be being a layered city – from the old 15 Parson’s Polygon – David of a humanoid machine, a monument medieval times to the late Georgian a FORTH STREET 2 Hamilton (1985) ceramic relief to the modern age. Vulcan was the classicism you see in Grainger Town.” The Parson’s Polygon sculpture is also Roman god of fire and patron of the ventilation shaft for the metro line craftsmanship and is shown with a 10 Ellipsis Eclipses – Danny Lane 6 Cardinal Hume Monument – below. The ‘Parsons’ of the title refers hammer as the tool of his trade. (2005) stainless steel plinth Nigel Boonham (2002) bronze and stacked glass to Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931), the designer of “Turbinia” a turbine Cardinal George Basil Hume (1923 – The title ‘Ellipsis Eclipses’ is a play on 2 Reaching for the Stars – 1999) was born in Newcastle. He was words based on its form, derived from powered vessel, which in 1897 achieved Kenneth Armitage the Ninth Archbishop of Westminster the intersection of two circles (or ellipses) 34 knots. The designs in the clay tiles (2002) bronze and a Benedictine monk. like the eclipse of the moon or sun. are based on Parson’s engineering Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002) was Queen Elizabeth II opened the 3m high drawings and Turbinia can now be seen born in . He first attracted bronze and new public space at St in the nearby Discovery Museum. international attention in the 1950’s as Mary’s Cathedral in 2002. The sculpture 11 Objects of Beauty – Gilly Rogers one of a group of young British (2004) tools and perspex stands on a flat stone plinth in the 16 Nine Things To Do On A Bench – sculptors, including Lynn Chadwick and shape of the Northumbrian island of ‘Objects of Beauty’ was unveiled in the Cate Watkinson and Julia Eduardo Paolozzi. Reaching for the Stars Lindesfarne, where St. Cuthbert held unusual setting between a ladies toilet Darling (2001) etched glass was commissioned by Parabola Estates his hermitage in the middle ages. and a hairdressers in Grainger Market. as part of the Central Square Small tools used in everyday beauty Julia Darling’s words are etched into developments which began the routines, including tweezers, eyelash the glass seats around the Grey’s 7 regeneration of the Stephenson Quarter Tyne Line of Text Flow – curlers and scissors are set into perspex Monument area. The designs are the behind Newcastle Central Station. Carol Sommer, Sue Downing blocks and backlit. result of collaboration between poet, and William Herbert Julia Darling, glass artist Cate (2005) stainless steel Watkinson and Insite Design to create 3 George Stephenson The 140m long stream of text messages 12 Grainger Dedication – contemporary street furniture in the Monument – John Graham combines Roman messages found locally Charlie Holmes (1999) cast iron historic heart of Grainger Town. Lough (1862) bronze at Hadrians Wall, printed text from the This dedication is to Richard Grainger who was responsible for the design of George Stephenson (1781-1848) time of King Charles I and text messages 17 Theatre Royal – developed a steam locomotive for use collected on the day of the Newcastle . Born in 1797 the Simon Watkinson (2002) on colliery tram lines which was the Sunderland football derby in 2004. son of a Quayside porter Grainger built Subtle LED lighting is used to create basis of the world’s first passenger the Grainger Market, Greys Monument, an animated curtain of light within the railway on the Stockton-Darlington line the Theatre Royal, Grey Street and 8 Ever Changing – Eilis O’Connell portico of the Theatre Royal. Artist in 1825 and he is probably the most Grainger Street which give Newcastle (2005) stainless steel Simon Watkinson worked with Arup well known Geordie of them all. Born its architectural character today. The mirror-polished inverted cone, Engineers in developing the reflective in Northumberland, he became an appears to defy gravity. Its title refers PVC canopy set within the coffer space, engineman in the Newcastle coalfield to the fact that the environment will be 13 Grey’s Monument – which heightens the intensity of light and in 1815 invented his ‘Geordie’ continually reflected on the surface of Edward Hodges Baily (1837) enabling the theatre to be lit in a safety lamp. Legend has it that this the sculpture, mirroring the portland stone variety of colours. is how Geordies got their name. surrounding architecture, the changing The statue of Earl Grey stands on a fluted Roman Doric column and was skies, the movement of people. 18 Monument to – 4 Man with Potential Selves – built by subscription to commemorate Alfred Gilbert (1903) bronze Sean Henry the author of the Great Reform Bill. 9 Chinese Arch – Yonglai Zhang The figure of Queen Victoria in this (2003) coloured bronze Charles Earl Grey also championed the (2005) wood, stone and sculpture is a replica of the ‘Jubilee Man With Potential Selves is a three abolition of slavery throughout the glazed tiles Monument’ made by the sculptor that part bronze sculpture opposite British empire. In 1806 he was The ceremonial arch now graces the stands in Winchester. The Queen sits with Newcastle Central Station. Henry is appointed First Lord of the Admiralty entrance to Newcastle’s China Town a crown on her head and orb and sceptre quoted as saying: “They are three alter and later Leader of the House of opposite St James’s Park. It was in either hand on an elaborate throne. The egos of the same man. It is very Commons and became Prime constructed by a team of traditional orb in the Queen’s hand was intended to important for people realise that it Minister in 1830. have an, ‘ideal representation of Victory’ craftsmen from China in 2004 and is the same man and that he is an on top but this was lost in the casting. commissioned as part of the Grainger Everyman character.” Town urban regeneration programme. Newcastle 2 This route is just short of 1.5 miles and flat.

f 26 6th Northumberland Fusiliers Hatton 27 Civic War Memorial – Gallery 28 Centre John Reid, Rene Bowman (1924) bronze 23 Situated next to the West end of St. 25 24 Thomas’s Church at Barras Bridge this 22 First World War Memorial bronze of St. 29 26 e ST MARY’S PLACE 21 George holds a sword, with a dragon’s ST THOMAS’Haymarket ST 30 COLLEGE STREET head at his feet and commemorates City Hall the fallen of the 6th (Territorial) & Pool 20 Battalion of Northumberland Fusiliers

JOHN DOBSON ST SAVILLE ROW 27 Monument to Lord Armstrong –

NEWGATE STREET NORTHUMBERLAND ST William (1906) bronze d Lord Armstrong is shown standing next Laing Art to a table with a scroll of drawings in Eldon Square Library Gallery his hand. The panels on the plinth 19 beneath show some aspects of his work as an engineer. The position of Grey’s Monument the statue in front of the Hancock Museum was chosen because he had been President of the Natural History c Society from 1893 until his death.

19 21 Pillar Man – Nicolaus Widerberg Blue Carpet – Thomas Heatherwick 24 Swans In Flight – David Wynne 28 Escapology – Cath Campbell (2004) bronze and stone (2001) tiles and glass (1968) bronze (2006) Western Red Cedar Commissioned to celebrate the opening of Northumbria Thomas Heatherwick’s public square transformed an unloved The sculpture’s subject is based on ‘Escapology’ is a dramatic cascading University’s newly extended art gallery. The 6.5 metre high space around the Laing Art Gallery. ‘The Blue Carpet’ the poem “The Swans of the North” structure created from 456 metres of bronze stands in a symbolic river of black granite, marking introduces a cohesive surface laid across the square and up written by Hans Hartvig Seedorff un-treated Western Red Cedar for the the course of Pandon Burn that flows 20 metres below. against the gallery. The carpet draws the buildings together Pederson. The swans represent the roofline of the new theatre and creates an intimate open space for both performance and Scandinavian countries and the strong development that houses international play. The surface has been peeled back to create benches and 22 Untitled – Austin Wright links between Newcastle and those theatre company Northern Stage. light voids, and the project incorporates an elegant laminated (1981) aluminium countries. wooden spiral staircase. At 19m long abstract work depicting 29 the shapes and forms of a landscape Spiral Nebula – 25 viewed from above. The subtle The Response-1914 – Geoffrey Clarke 20 Book Stack – Fred Watson John William Goscombe (1962) steel (1992) granite aluminium shapes show Wright’s interest in rock forms and their texture. (1923) bronze This is one of the oldest works of the Watson was born in Gateshead and ‘The Response’ of the title refers to the modern era sited in the City. The artist taught Fine Art at the University. soldiers of responding to the call to also collaborated with the architect of His fifteen granite books provide a 23 River God Tyne – David Wynne arms in 1914. Although the title of the the Herschel building, Sir Basil Spence, welcome to this academic area of (1968) bronze monument refers to the call to arms in on Coventry Cathedral. the city centre and the sculpture Water streams from the outstretched 1914, the subject matter for the was unveiled by the Duchess of hand of the River God. Originally bronze relief has been identified as the 30 South African War Memorial – Northumberland when Newcastle patinated black the natural weathering massing of the 5th Northumberland Thomas Eyre Macklin Polytechnic became a University has turned the surface green. The idea Fusiliers in April 1915. They marched in 1992. for a River God originates from the from their camp in Park, (1908) bronze and fibreglass representations of eight rivers on the through the Haymarket and on to the ‘Victory’ stands on top of the obelisk façade of Somerset House in Central Station before embarking to and the idealised figure of (1786), where the head of fight in the First World War. ‘Northumbria’ reaches up to her at has three beards and is surmounted by the north side of the plinth. Built as a basket of coals and fish. a memorial to the soldiers who died in the South African War 1899-1902 the names of the fallen soldiers are on shields attached to the south, east and west sides of the plinth. NewcastleGateshead This route is just over 1 mile with either a fair amount of 3 steps up to The Sage Gateshead or a fairly steep slope up to it.

T 41 35 Trinity 39 40 37 River God – Andre Wallace 38 Gardens 36 (1996) bronze figure on a 37 Law steel column Live Courts Partner piece to ‘Siren’ the ‘River God’ Theatre Millennium is a male figure with only a torso and Bridge h Side 34 head. The were Gallery QUAYSIDE Baltic commissioned as part of the g regeneration of the Quayside as part of the Art on the Riverside scheme 31 Tyne Bridge Ribbon of Colour – Kate Maestri SOUTH 31SHORE ROAD Gateshead funded by the Arts Council Lottery (2004) glass Swing Br The Sage i Quays scheme. The glass balustrade is made up of 51 glass panels and runs Gateshead 100m along the the concourse of The Sage Gateshead High 33 32 designed by Foster and Partners which has helped to lead Level 38 Column and Steps – the cultural renaisance of Gateshead Quays. Br Andrew Burton Hotel (1996) bronze Andrew Burton is an artist who works primarily on large-scale sculpture projects for the public realm. He is a 32 Star Ceiling – Jo Fairfax Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University. (2005) lighting “My sculpture is about many themes. Star Ceiling is a lighting installation Current work is about the language of made from 116 fibre optic strands of the sea, hooks, chains, rudders, strong different lengths suspended above the and elemental forms. Animals and lifts behind The Sage Gateshead. The architecture are also important lights are programmed to change themes.” colour to produce an ordered representation of the night sky. 39 Rudder – Andrew Burton (1996) bronze 33 Beacons – David Pearl Rudder is a partner piece to Column (2004) steel, perspex and light and Steps nearby. The 1990s saw the A series of illuminated Beacons have transformation of Newcastle’s been commissioned to signpost routes Quayside. Costing £170 million, Tyne to the cultural attractions of 35 Give and Take – and Wear Development Corporation’s Gateshead Quays. overall scheme was designed by Terry Peter Randall-Page 41 Blacksmiths Needle – Farrell Associates, with public art being (2004) stone Members of the British Association of Blacksmith The surface pattern follows the geodesic geometry found in seen as integral to the aesthetic appeal of the area. Artists (1996) forged steel molecular structure and consists of 630 hexagons and 12 Launched in 1997 by Evelyn Glennie, the percussionist pentagons carved into the surface of a 40 tonne glacial ringing a bell which hangs inside the needle, the Needle has boulder from Fort William in Scotland. Randall-Page said: “this 40 Swirle Pavilion – six sections. Each section contains objects, mainly with a is the culmination of twenty five years studying organic form Raf Fulcher (1998) maritime theme, which relate to one of the senses including and explores the relationship between geometry and biology”. stone, concrete and metal ‘the mysterious sixth’. The objects were made in public The pavilion has the names of various ‘forge-ins’ by the British Association of Blacksmith Artists. 36 Siren – Andre Wallace towns carved around the inner rim that (1995) bronze on a steel were taken by the artist from a faded column sign at Plummer Chare, approximately Greek legend has it that the Sirens 500m west. The sign advertised the lured sailors to their death with the major destinations of the Tyne-Tees beauty of their singing. The bronze Steam Shipping Company Ltd from torso is smoothly formed with the head Newcastle and Middlesbrough in the 34 Tributary – John Maine RA having a slightly exaggerated scale with nineteenth century. The Pavilion’s name (2005) reclaimed and new granite paving a bell for an earring. originates from a short street called the Tracing the course of the Lort Burn ‘Tributary’ is a subtle artist Swirle that led from a point at which led design within a new traffic scheme, forming part of the Sandgate became St. Mary’s Street, fabric of the street leading down to the Newcastle Quayside. where the Half Moon tavern stood in the 1890s. The street name is thought to refer to the stream that it covered and which flowed into the Tyne at this point. Gateshead This route is approximately 2 miles. 3 miles if the extension to Staiths South Bank is included. The route slopes steadily 4 for the most part with a steeper incline in the middle.

Millennium Br h 45 Sports Day – Mike Winstone Baltic (1986) concrete Mike Winstone was Gateshead’s Central Station i Gateshead sculptor in residence from 1985-86. Tyne Br Quays Swing The Sage Sports Day alludes to Gateshead’s Br Gateshead international reputation as an athletics High venue. By making a humorous image Level Br BOTTLE BANK of the figure competing in a sack race, the artist hoped to have people Hotel identify with it more readily than they 47 might if the traditionally heroic athlete 48 were used. Old GATESHEAD Queen 46 Town Elizabeth II 49 Hall HIGH STREET Bridge WEST ST

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King Edward 45 Bridge j Redheugh 42 JACKSON ST Bridge Gateshead 48 Interchange Rolling Moon – Colin Rose 50 CHARLES ST (1990) steel HIGH WEST ST Originally designed for a lake at the 1988 Glasgow Garden 43 REGENT ST Festival Rolling Moon was subsequently re-sited by Gateshead MBC at its new Riverside Sculpture Park. The sculptor said: 44 “I had done a lot of work on the tides and the weather and Civic the rolling moon was a development of those ideas”. Centre

Staiths South Bank 49 Goats – Sally Matthews (1992) metal The sculptures consist of welded metal 43 The Family – Gordon Young 46 Acceleration – John Creed armatures combining scrap materials (1991) Shap limestone (2005) steel and textured aggregate cement. On Three separate groupings of figures The seven metre long artwork is situated opposite the Old her use of animals for subject matter make up this piece and reflect Town Hall and was commissioned to enhance the public realm the artist says: “I want my work to relationships in the principal stages of linkages between Gateshead Town Centre and Gateshead remind people of our need for animals life: childhood, maturity and old age. Quays, whilst referencing the former railway engineering and the example their nature provides As a title, The Family refers less to works in this historic quarter. us with”. that unit and more to a ‘family’ of interconnected sculptures celebrating relationships common to the whole 47 Cone – Andy Goldsworthy 50 Once Upon a Time – human ‘family’. (1990) steel plate Richard Deacon Cone stands in Gateshead Riverside (1990) painted mild steel Richard Deacon is widely regarded as 44 Sculpture Park, artist Andy Threshold – Lulu Quinn one of the principal British sculptors, (2003) stainless steel Goldsworthy stated that “the scrap steel cone stands on the site of an old best known for his innovative use of and sound foundry and touches the nature of an open form and his interest in materials Threshold is an interactive sound urban environment. This cone draws and their manipulation. Working on 42 Opening Line – Danny Lane sculpture taking the form of a strength and meaning from the nature both a domestic and monumental (2004) glass and steel large-scale stainless steel doorway of steel, city and a site that is now scale, his structures combine organic Public transport operator Nexus has fully recognised the to Gateshead High Street. Sound grown over and wooded, where not so and biomorphic forms with elements potential of art within public transport for over 30 years. recordings from 300 local people long ago people lived and worked.” of engineering. ‘Once upon a time’ is Danny Lane’s sculpture ‘Opening Line’ is a 90-metre long and animals from Farm built onto the surviving abutment wall sequence of forms in steel and glass that can be read like are triggered to play at random. of the demolished Redheugh Bridge. an epic frieze cutting through the centre of the busy It is said to represent ‘the demise of transport interchange. heavy industry in the region’. Sunderland 1 This is a short route of about 1 mile 5 with a short rise at the half way point.

FAWCETT STREET 54 Mowbray Park Poetry – 57 Monument to Major General Linda France, Alec Peever, Sir Henry Havelock – Craig Knowles (2000) William Behnes (1861) bronze Poetry by Linda France has been Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857) was sculpted by letter cutter Alec Peever born at Bishop-Wearmouth. His role in Northern and blacksmith Craig Knowles across the Indian mutiny of 1857 earned him Gallery for the refurbished Victorian park. considerable press in England. He was Contemporary Art The words in the cupola of the gazebos held up as an example of military are taken from the poem The Ark in excellence and devout character, k BOROUGH ROAD The Park by Linda France whilst the becoming a popular hero, which led to l phrases and thoughts on the benches him being created knight then baron in HOLMESIDE Sunderland Museum are from work that the poet led with late 1857. 51 and Winter Gardens community groups and refer to people’s memories of Mowbray Park. 52 58 Childrens play area – Richard Caink 59 60 55 Monument to John Candlish (2000) Elm 53 MP – Charles Bacon TOWARD ROAD These playful sculptures were made (1875) bronze from the elm trees felled in the park John Candlish (1816-1874) was born during redevelopment to enhance the near Bellingham in Northumberland children’s play area. The images are Civic 54 55 and moved to Ayres Quay in based on Alice in Wonderland as Lewis Centre Sunderland as a young man. He Carroll spent time writing in Sunderland. 56 became editor of the Sunderland Beacon newspaper in 1842, started a 59 Walrus – Andrew Burton bottle-making business at Seaham, 58 (2000) bronze ROAD made his fortune from exporting food There is an apocryphal story that Lewis to the Empire. Conservative for the first Carroll wrote The Walrus and the Mowbray half of his life, Candlish later converted Carpenter after seeing a stuffed walrus to Radicalism and Free Trade principles. Park in the lobby of Sunderland Museum. He was elected as Liberal councillor in 57 The dates make this impossible, 1848, Mayor in 1858, MP in 1866 and although he is thought to have written gave much of his money to libraries, Jabberwocky while staying in nearby hospitals and schools. PARK ROAD Whitburn. The story was however the inspiration for the waterside sculpture 56 Monument to Jack Crawford – of a walrus commissioned from 51 Monolith – William Pye 52 Mowbray Gates – Percy Wood (1890) bronze Andrew Burton. Jack Crawford (1775-1831) was born (2001) steel and water Wendy Ramshaw OBE in Sunderland and served in the navy Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a landmark (1998) powder coated steel 60 Victoria Hall Tragedy Memorial – at the battle of Camperdown. When project for the development of the city and features the The complex design of the gate was W.G. Brooker (1884) stone the British colours were shot away largest public art programme so far funded by the Heritage developed from geomtric shapes and The most moving piece in the park is from the flagship he nailed them back Lottery Fund. images from Sunderland history, which undoubtedly the Victoria Hall Tragedy to the mast, to ensure that the rest of The Winter Gardens designed by Napper Architects features is typical of Ramshaws work. Born in Memorial. The Victoria Hall was a large the fleet did not lose heart. He William Pye’s ‘Monolith’, a 10-meter tall stainless steel water Sunderland in 1939 the artist learned concert hall facing onto Mowbray Park. returned a hero and was awarded a sculpture within an excellent botanical collection of over to draw in the museum and has now In June 1883 a children’s variety show silver medal and an annual pension of 1500 plants of 146 species. been awarded an OBE to acknowledge was presented for the families of mine £30. However, Crawford’s fortunes did her position as one of Britains foremost and shipyard workers however a tragic not continue and he was forced to sell jewellery designers. accident left 183 children dead whilst his medal. He died in a cholera rushing for the exits. Newspaper epidemic and is buried in Trinity reports triggered a mood of national 53 Sunderland First and Second Churchyard, Sunderland. outrage and the resulting enquiry World War Memorial – established the safety standard that Richard Ray (1922) bronze public venues should be fitted with a The war memorial features a winged minimum number of outward opening figure of Victory on a tall polished emergency exits. A public subscription Tuscan column situated between the raised funds for a memorial statue that Victorian Mowbray Park and was restored and relocated to Sunderland Civic Centre. Victory holds Mowbray Park in 2002. out a laurel wreath in her right hand and a torch in her left. Sunderland 2 The second route in Sunderland is along the riverfront from the Wearmouth Bridge to 6 seafront. The route is approximately 3.25 miles

65 Watching and Waiting – 69 Taking Flight – Craig Knowles NEWCASTLE ROAD Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher, (1997) steel Craig Knowles, Chaz Brenchley Four steel girders grow as they get (1995) sandstone, bronze and nearer the water with a cormorant 67 steel gradually emerging and taking flight. 68 Wilbourn found a reference to ‘Look Artist Craig Knowles said: ‘The

HARBOUR VIEW Out Hill’ on old maps of the area and sculpture suggests the transition of the 71 asked the developers to create a new St. Peter’s area from an industrial past 70 66 69 mound to look out over the Wear. The into something more natural’ steel book features a piece of writing KIER HARDIE WAY about the sea by Brenchley, one of the 70 Stone Stair Carpet – 65 loose leaves is written in Braille. Colin Wilbourn (1992) stone Stadium Sunderland 66 Flight – Craig Knowles Colin Wilbourn carved the existing of Light Harbour (1997) steel stone steps that were once part of the original docks with imagery related to ROKER AVENUE 72 The two cormorants fly in between 73 64 stylised clouds on a decorative weather the housing that predated the St. Peter’s Church vane, and make up one of fifteen shipyards. National works made throughout a decade Glass 63 which saw the decline and demolition 71 High Tide – Centre m of shipyards and the reinvention of the Karl Fisher, Craig Kowles, Colin River Wear, with a new university Wilbourn and Chaz Brenchley DAME DOROTHY ST campus, marina, fish quay, housing (2000) cast concrete and steel and the National Glass Centre. University High Tide is the final sculpture of the 61 62 St. Peter’s Riverside Sculpture Project, installed in 2001 on Roker Beach, Wearmouth Bridge where the River Wear meets the sea. It consists of a set of lunar pieces, seven phases of the moon caught in 61 Shadows in Another Light – 63 Light Transformer – concrete bowls with Brenchley’s words Craig Knowles, Colin Wilbourn Stepan Pala and Zora Palova around the rims. and Karl Fischer (1998) cast glass Commissioned to mark the opening of (1998) steel, concrete, wood 72 Always Open Gates – the National Glass Centre the and stone Colin Wilbourn and Karl Fisher The giant concrete rivets, nuts and sculpture is the largest work of cast (1992) steel bolts stretching from near to the glass in the UK weighing 1000 The gates were the first piece to be Wearmouth Bridge to the University of kilograms. Both artists were born in 67 Passing Through – completed for the St. Peters Riverside Sunderland building are components of Czechoslovakia and have considerable Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher and Craig Knowles Project which became part of the Art this work. The steel tree stands on the international reputations for (1997) stone, steel and mortar on the Riverside, the largest programme actual base of a former shipyard crane pioneering work with glass. A series of domestic components on and near the back wall of public art in the UK along the banks and its giant shadow is captured in the of the marina make up this piece. The small stool with a of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. paving stretching towards the mouth 64 The Red House – keyhole enables the correct viewpoint to see the distorted of the River Wear. Colin Wilbourn image carved into the wall come to life. 73 Men of Steel – Graeme Hopper (1994) stone (2001) steel 62 Pathways of Knowledge – Fragments of the house can be found 68 Windows and Walls – The steel men push boulders of coal Colin Wilbourn along the first fifty yards of the riverside up the hill to pay homage to the path that stretches from the Glass Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher (1993) yellow sandstone generations of miners who worked Centre to the marina. All carved from and Chaz Brenchley, Located in front of the University library in the Wearmouth Colliery where the the same red stone taken from the (1996) brick the sculpture makes a direct association Stadium of Light now stands. The artist Queen Alexander Bridge further upriver. The scenes are based on stories with learning but also relates to the said: “It represents man’s social The St Peters Riverside Sculpture Project depicting sea and country life, written areas history with a relief carving of St. struggle and will to survive against the in Sunderland developed into one of by schoolchildren with the help of Bede, and a mosaic inlay taken from an odds. The figures show purpose and the longest running and best-known Brenchley. The panels are grouped into illuminated manuscript in the aims, they symbolise hope and artist residencies in the Country during six sets of four, each set illustrating a Scriptorium at St. Peter’s Church nearby. achievement.” Historically St. Peter’s church has been the 1990’s. story that is inscribed on small metal an important centre of learning, and plates attached between them. the sculpture celebrates the University’s continuation of that tradition. Starting at the Customs House this route travels along the riverside to the harbour and back along the Lawe Top. It is approximately 3.5 miles with 7 a gentle but fairly long slope from North Marine Park to the Lawe Top.

82 80 77 Spirit of South Shields – 84 Ferry Approach – RIVER DRIVE Irene Brown (2000) bronze Bruce Mclean (2003) steel Roman Fort The ‘Spirit of South Shields’ harbours a Girders and brightly coloured steelwork 79 ship safely in one arm whilst raising her create a link through the 60’s other arm in greeting. Standing on the architecture from the once industrial end of the jetty looking out over the riverside to the market square. river the ‘Spirit’ acts as a ships 80 Conversation Piece – North figurehead for the town and echos the Juan Muñoz (1998) bronze 83 Marine 81 ‘ship’ image of the Victorian Town Hall. Renowned Spanish artist Juan Munoz (1953-2001) sited the Park figures that make up Conversation Piece temporarily in South Berwick upon Tweed as part of the celebrations for the 1996 77 Marine Year of Visual Arts. The 22 part sculpture was cast in bronze 78 OCEAN ROAD Park and found a permanent home at the mouth of the Tyne in South Shields and is a great favourite with visitors who ‘eavesdrop’ on the mysterious group of bronze figures. Commenting on the strange appearance of the figures, Munoz said: “laughter and pain are very close and I like the idea of 85 tragi-comedy. They look like rolling figures, like tumblers, and 84 76 they are about movement, but they can’t move”.

81 Monument to W. Wouldhave 75 86 87 88 and H. Greathead – 85 Old Town Hall – n R. Farbridge (1890) stone Martin Richman (2002) lighting 74 The memorial was commissioned as The architectural lighting on the old town hall complements the centrepiece of the new South the ‘Landing Lights’ artwork Richman completed for the Shields Marine Parks. Both William nearby South Shields Ferry Landing. Wouldhave (1751-1824) and Henry 74 Nautical Objects – Greathead (1757-c.1816) were Matthew Jarratt (1995) steel involved in the development of the first 86 Monument to Queen Victoria – Commissioned by South Tyneside lifeboat ‘Original’. The lifeboat ‘Tyne’ is Albert Toft (1913) bronze Council these images are based on alongside the memorial. A depiction of the aged Queen in full drawings made in the local ship repair royal regalia with orb and sceptre. On either side of the statue are black- yards by children from the local Ashley 82 Lawe Top Beacon (1932) painted figurative lampholders, in the Road Primary School, produced during stone and brick an artists residency at form of female nudes representing The Lawe Top Beacon was erected as a Night and Day. The Town Hall was built Engineering whose welders also made 78 Fleet – Irene Brown navigation aid in 1932 by John Turnbull between 1905 and 1910 in a time of the artwork. (2004) stainless steel and cost around £60. The beacon and great prosperity for the town the The flooded dry dock at Market Dock is the arena for seven its twin companion set behind it on the sculptures which adorn it reflect this highly polished stainless steel sculptures of nineteenth century 75 Merchant Navy Memorial – other side of the road, replaced the with a mixture of local and national collier brigs. Irene Brown’s ‘Fleet’ has taken South Tyneside’s Robert Olley (1990) bronze 18th Century structures. symbols. The memorial depicts a sailor at the historic ship symbol and reclaimed it as a cultural icon for the ships wheel and commemorates the new riverside. region’s merchant seamen who have 83 Dolly Peel – Billy Gofton 87 Allegories of the Four Seasons – (1987) concrete fondu J.G. Binney (1910) stone been lost during wartime. President of 79 Hand – David Gross the National Union of Seamen, Jim Dolly Peel is shown holding a basket, The life-size female figures are situated (1998) wood and steel Slater first proposed the memorial in with a fish lying at her feet and at each corner of the Town Hall clock The Hand was designed in 1988 and a plaque dedicated to him is laughing. The fishwives of tower between buttressed ionic collaboration with pupils from St. Peter set in the pavement behind. have a special place in local history and columns. and St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Primary it was felt that there was no adequate School with wood reclaimed from memorial to them in South Shields. This 88 Personifications of South 76 Landing Lights – demolition of a shipyard. sculpture of Dolly was commissioned by Martin Richman (2003) lighting her distant relative Reg Peel, and Shields, Industry, Arts, Crafts When Nexus began to develop a new according to her history, Dorothy (Dolly) and Labour – J.G. Binney passenger ferry landing for South Shields, Peel was a South Shields fishwife and (1910) stone it linked with Art on the Riverside to smuggler in the early 1900s. There are Integral to the building’s design, on the commission artist Martin Richmond to numerous stories about how she pedestals of the columns either side of produce a series of creative lighting helped men evade press gangs, the entrance, these finely carved reliefs solutions that have now transformed the eventually going to sea with her illustrate the relationship of the structure of the Bascule Bridge. husband where she worked as a nurse. borough to a well-ordered life of industry, commerce and education. This is a circular route of approximately 2 miles The route is approximately 1.7 miles with a moderate starting at the Royal Quays outlet-shopping arcade. incline and a considerable number of steps to the quayside. 8 There is a long but gentle slope. 9

90 Short The Tide is Turning – Sands Linda France and Alec Peever MANOR ROAD Leisure Pool (1994) stone and stainless steel In the pond formed between the top KING EDWARD ROAD Priory two weirs there are the words ‘The 99 Castle Tide is Turning’, they are a continuation 90 of the text along the opposite wall. Royal Quays The text comes from a collaboration between Linda France and local women’s groups and was commissioned in the early phase of the rivers regeneration. 98 91 Leisure 92 91 Sea Dreamer’s Rest – Marina TYNEMOUTH ROAD 89 Pool Gilly Rogers 93 (1998) steel, resin, clay pipes, Arcade white feathers and bronze o Sea Dreamers Rest is the title given to a series of resin blocks set into the top rim of two old capstans at either end of the pier and two pairs of bronze shoes that are placed outside of the railings at either end of the pier. The 97 seaward capstan has white feathers set in the resin and a man’s shoes, the 96 Fish inland facing capstan having clay pipes 95 Quay in the resin and a woman’s shoes over the railings. 94 92 Tyne Anew – Mark Di Suvero (1999) painted steel 94 Wooden Dolly – 97 Dolphin Mooring Post – The V-shaped structure balances on a Martyn and Jane Grubb Northern Freeform tripod and moves in the wind like a (1992) Oak wood (1993) timber, brick and metal weather vane creating a clear A Wooden Dolly figurehead has stood The sculptured mooring post based on association to the cranes that once in this spot since the early 1800s, when the staithes that are used in the Tyne lined the banks of the Tyne. Tyne Anew the figurehead from the collier brig that takes its name from the pub next was built by the artist in New York 'Alexander and Margaret' was placed to it. A bronze shag sits drying its After an initial visit to the site, he said here after being attacked and ransomed wings on top. of Tyne Anew: “In the scheme of in 1781 on the north east coast. things I build these pieces so that 98 people can have an expansion of their Monument to Admiral Lord 95 spirit….You get to see certain sites and Naters Bank Seascape – Collingwood – John Graham they really are glorious. This is one of Maggie Howarth (1987) Lough (1845) stone them. It's a worker’s site and it appeals stone, concrete and ceramics Cuthbert Collingwood (1748-1810) was to me because I live by a river, the East Commissioned by North Tyneside born in Newcastle, he joined the Navy at River in New York’. Council as part of the regeneration of the age of thirteen and later distinguished the Fish Quay area it was created by himself at the battle of Trafalgar where he the locally-based Northern Freeform was Nelson’s second-in command. He 93 Dudes – Permindar Kaur artists’ collective, with Howarth in the was rewarded with a peerage for his 89 Lightening Clock – Andy Plant (2001) (2003) powder coated steel lead role, this landscape sculpture ‘valour, judgement and skill’. He died at Kaur intended the figures being placed in incorporates smaller mosaic fish which sea and was given a state funeral and a copper, stainless steel, cast iron and fibreglass monument in St Paul’s. Two beaten copper spheres are fixed to a steel lightning bolt the to encourage thought were made by local school children. about the historical significance of ports that is hitting the ground. Meteorological instruments are set as points of departure and entry to new into the base and it stands at over 30ft tall. The smaller nations. The artist said: “The Port of Tyne 96 Stan Laurel – Robert Olley 99 Monument to Queen Victoria – sphere with a lone figure balanced on top forms the actual is an ideal location for the work. I hope (1992) fibreglass Alfred Turner (1902) bronze clock. On the hour there are crashes of thunder and the large the work makes people stop and think Stan Laurel (1890-1965) was born Depicting the Queen in the twilight sphere begins to rotate. Wind and smoke lift the small figure about ports, their cultural significance - Arthur Stanley Jefferson in years of her reign, the statue was a off his feet and he has to cling on. As the hour passes, the as a point of entry into another country, and lived in the original 8 Dockwray second cast from the mould used for wind dies down and the figure returns to his feet. or continent – as well as their historic Square, North Shields from 1897 to Turner’s monument to the Queen in significance”. 1901. Delhi, India. To Gateshead

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Angel of the North – (1998) Corten steel The stands on a panoramic hilltop which was formerly a colliery site synonymous with Gatesheads’ mining history.The sculpture is taller than 4 double decker buses, seen by more than 90,000 drivers a day on the A1 – more than one person every second – and is believed to be the largest angel sculpture in the world. In 2006 the Angel of the North was voted one of the 12 official ‘Icons of England’.

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