Tynemouth, Metro Station, 'Mask'

HER Number:
11122

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Metro Station, 'Mask'

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

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:
A lime-wood mask, 1.3m high x 50cm wide set on a steel support. 1995 by David Gross. Commissioned by Nexus. The mask has a "fierce" expression reminiscent of an actor's mask of tragedy or perhaps to masks of the South Seas. Carved with the help of pupils from Norham Community High School.

Easting:
3662

Northing:
6933

Grid Reference:
NZ36626933

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 209-10;The Journal, Newcastle, 22 August 1995