North Hylton, Sunderland Enterprise Park, 'Tempesta'

HER Number:
11175

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
North Hylton, Sunderland Enterprise Park, 'Tempesta'

Place:
North Hylton

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

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:
1996-7 by Douglas Hunter. "Tempesta: Where the River Meets the Sea". A large strip of steel painted in oranges, reds, blues and greens, mounted on the south wall of a building on Alexandra Avenue opposite the technology park. Above it in aluminium letters are words from Ezra Pound's poem "Fish and the Shadow": "THE SALMON-TROUT DRIFTS IN THE STREAM/ THE SOUL OF THE SALMON-TROUT FLOATS OVER THE STREAM/ LIKE A LITTLE WAFER OF LIGHT/ THE SALMON MOVES IN THE SUN-SHOT, BRIGHT SHALLOW SEA".

Easting:
3782

Northing:
5831

Grid Reference:
NZ37825831

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 200-1