City Centre Art
Articulated Opposites – Raymond Arnatt (1969)
The sculpture is a ‘visual analogy of Sir Joseph’s invention, the electric filament light. This was first demonstrated at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society on 3rd February 1879 and its success soon led to mass manufacture. More detail from waymarking.com No tags for this post.
Bigg Market Murals – Yvette Earl (2021)
Designed by Yvette Earl Illustration and Lines Behind as part of a National Lottery Heritage Fund Bigg Market Project! Murals celebrate all things Bigg Market past, present and future adds a splash of colour and cheer up the little lane that leads to The Old George in the Courtyard Newcastle. More information Yvette Earl Tags:…
Canopy Lighting – Simon Watkinson (2001)
Simon Watkinson has designed a lighting scheme, which illuminates a PVC canopy contained within the portico of the theatre. The canopy is visible up and down Grey Street attracting the eye to the magnificent façade of the building. With the addition of form and colour the lighting is a subtle addition to a classical structure….
Cardinal Hume Monument – Nigel Boonham (2002)
Cardinal Basil Hume was born in Newcastle, he was the Ninth Archbishop of Westminster and a Benedictine Monk. The sculpture stands on a flat stone plinth in the shape of the Northumbrian Island of Lindisfarne. Queen Elisabeth 11 opened the 3m high bronze and new public space at St Mary’s Cathedral in 2002. No tags…
Central Arcade – Burmantofts (1906)
At the top of Grey Street is the Central Arcade, created when the interior of Exchange Buildings was burnt out around 1904. Its replacement, designed by Joseph and Harold Oswald and completed in 1906, was the glorious Central Arcade, its two storeys of shops faced entirely in brown and yellow. The original glass mosaic floor…
Centurion Bar Burmantofts – Newcastle Central Station (1893)
This place can take your breath away the first time you see it. Originally the First Class Waiting Room at Central Station, later inhabited by the British Transport Police, now the Centurion Bar in Newcastle Central Station. In 1893 the railway company decorated the room with specially commissioned, hand made Burmantofts tiles which were very…
Chinese Arch – Yonglai Zhang (2005)
Newcastle’s Chinese arch was designed by Mr Yonglai Zhang, and constructed by a team of 12 traditional craftsmen from the Changsu Classical Garden Construction Company Ltd from Changsu, in the Jiangsu Province. The arch is 11m high with a span of 9m between the two vertical columns. Carved and painted animals, notably dragons and phoenixes,…
Ellipsis Eclipses – Danny Lane (2005)
The title ‘Ellipsis Eclipses’ is a play on words based on its form, derived from the intersection of two circles or ellipses like the eclipse of the moon or sun. The tower is made up of a plinth of stainless steel on which stands 9m of glass. The glass element comprises six separate stacks held…
Ever Changing – Elis O’Connell (2005)
The title ‘Ellipsis Eclipses’ is a play on words based on its form, derived from the intersection of two circles or ellipses like the eclipse of the moon or sun. The tower is made up of a plinth of stainless steel on which stands 9m of glass. The glass element comprises six separate stacks held…
Grainger Dedication – Charlie Holmes & Ian Ness (2000)
This dedication is to Richard Grainger who was responsible for the design of the Newcastle city centre. Born in 1797, the son of a Quayside porter, Grainger built the Grainger Market, Greys Monument, the Theatre Royal, Grey St and Grainger St, which gave Newcastle part of the architectural character it has today. THE PAST IS…
Grainger Town Sculptural Map – Simon Watkinson, Tod Hanson 2003
Displays Grainger Town as part of a layered city, from medieval to late Georgian classicism. Located on Neville Street, opposite Central Station. The map is a conceptual representation of the area of Newcastle known as Grainger Town. It is deliberately sited at the western entrance to the area, close to Central Station. The buildings and…
How Long Rupert – Rupert Cramp (2002)
The work is formed by the Sentence “FROM HERE IT IS NINE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN CENTIMETRES (How are you feeling?) TO HERE” Carved directly into the granite kerb as it turns around the corner. The beginning is in Westgate Road. To read it the viewer has to follow the sentence around the…
Magnet Court (1938)
Art Deco Terracotta Tiles Magnet House on Gallowgate, built for the General Electric Company around 1938. Its facade includes thirteen 3’ square art deco low relief terracotta panels (in four different designs) showing human figures symbolic of power generation. Similar motifs were used on the interior of Battersea Power Station in the first stage of…
Man with Potential Selves – Sean Henry (2003)
A three part sculpture opposite Central Station. “they are three alter egos of the same man”. Sean Henry brought us the Newbiggin ‘Couple’. More information Sean Henry Tags: sean henry
Newcastle Central Station Exit – John Dobson (1850)
Often overlooked, one of the first sights people see on returning home to Newcastle. Newcastle Central Station Exit featuring a young Queen Victoria, Newcastle Central Station on Neville Street was designed by John Dobson and was opened by Queen Victoria on the 29th August 1850. Tags: central station, railways, victoria
Newcastle through the Ages
Worth 10 minutes of anyones time, Newcastle’s most informative public art work, themes of Oceanus, Monkchester, Pons Aelius and Geordie, engineering, architecture, shipwrights, artists and social reformers. 2.3m high 2.7m wide. More detail from Co-Curate at Newcastle University Tags: history of newcastle, wall mosaics
Nine Things to do on a Bench – Cate Watkinson & Julia Darling (2001)
GTP employed Insite Environment to produce a unique suite of street furniture. Nine of the benches were double aspect, which created an opportunity for the artists to create a design depicting what can happen on benches. Etched into the glass forming the back of each bench, the designs make a witty and attractive addition to…
Objects of Beauty – Gilly Rogers (2004)
Small tools used in everyday beauty routines, including tweezers, eyelash, curlers and scissors. Tools are set into Perspex and backlit. This artwork is on the wall between a ladies’toilet and a hairdresser’s in the north-west corner of Grainger Market. More information Newcastle City Council PDF No tags for this post.
Queen Victoria – Alfred Gilbert (1903)
Queen Victoria – Alfred Gilbert (1903) Diplomatically positioned in St Nicholas Square, so Victoria’s back is not turned to the Cathedral or to the one time local government HQ in what is now Cathedral Square. The bronze statue was erected to commemorate 500 years of the jurisdiction of a sheriff of Newcastle. Pedestal is inscribed…
Rutherford Memorial Fountain – Band of Hope Union (1894)
Erected by the Band of Hope Union in memory of J.H. Rutherford, Presbyterian minister and Temperance campaigner. Sandstone steps, red sandstone fountain with pink granite basin.’Water is Best’ ironic, perhaps in this long established popular drinking location. Originally located outside St Nicholas Cathedral but had to be moved for a statue of Queen Victoria. More…
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