Works of Art

Gateshead is well known for its public art. The most obvious example, the Angel of the North already has a page of this album devoted to it, as does Windy Nook and the Baltic.

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RollingMoon1 Rolling Moon on the Gateshead Riverside beyond the High Level Bridge, was designed by Colin Rose, and originally used in 1988 at the Glasgow Garden Festival. It was relocated to Gateshead in 1990.	RollingMoon2
SportsDay1 Mike Winstone's Sports Day on West Street is a local landmark. It is supposed to represent a figure in a sack race, with further allusions to the race between the tortoise and the hare. Photographed 19th February 2001	SportsDay2 Photographed 19th February 2001
Sports Day 3 Photographed 22nd December 2001	The Family A group of 3 sculptures by Gordon Young situated outside Gateshead Civic Centre. Photographed 27th October 2001
The Family Photographed 27th October 2001	The Family Photographed 27th October 2001
The Family Photographed 27th October 2001	Windvane A 10 metre high sculture in Windmill Hills Park, which was installed in October 2001. It was designed by Cumbrian artist Richard Wood, based upon ideas from local pupils. What appears to be grafitti on the four legs of the sculpture is actually the four directions - north, south, east and west. Photographed 27th October 2001
Windvane Photographed 27th October 2001	Windvane Photographed 27th October 2001

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