Monkwearmouth, National Glass Centre, 'Light Transformer'

HER Number:
11166

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, National Glass Centre, 'Light Transformer'

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

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:
1998 by Zora Palova and Stepan Pala. Three slabs of blue glass in an oval shape - the largest work of cast glass in the UK, with a textured surface and small cracks running through it, set on a concrete pedestal. Made at a glass kiln at Bratislava. On the roof of the glass centre.

Easting:
4040

Northing:
5777

Grid Reference:
NZ40405777

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 191; City of Sunderland, 1998, publicart.sunderland.com