Newcastle, Quayside, Keelman Square, 'Column and Steps'

HER Number:
11008

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Quayside, Keelman Square, 'Column and Steps'

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Street Furniture

Site Type: Specific:
Sculpture

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1996 by Andrew Burton. A series of curved shapes surrounding a tapered column, all in steel. There is a twisted abstract shape on top of the column. Commissioned by the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation.

Easting:
2570

Northing:
6403

Grid Reference:
NZ25706403

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Art On the Riverside, Grainger Town Partnership, Arts Council England, Nexus and Newcastle City Council, Public Art in Newcastle - A Guide (booklet); Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 109; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 135