Low Eighton, A167, 'Viewing Platform'

HER Number:
11052

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Low Eighton, A167, 'Viewing Platform'

Place:
Low Eighton

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

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 Maurice O' Connell. A bronze relief of ridges and lettering, set into a circular low stone wall base. The artist worked with Harlow Green Infants School. The piece was commissioned by Gateshead MBC as part of the 'Four Seasons' project for the Year of Visual Arts UK. It is meant to represent winter.

Easting:
264

Northing:
578

Grid Reference:
NZ264578

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 59