Tynemouth, Metro Station, 'Fish'

HER Number:
11123

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Metro Station, 'Fish'

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:
1996 by Northern Freeform. A huge silver silver made from interlocked aluminium sheets with a paper mache head, suspended from the ceiling of the westbound platform. It was commissioned as a temporary work for the 1996 Fish Quay Festival but has remained in place ever since.

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