South Shields, Tyne Slipway and Engineering, 'Hand'

HER Number:
11136

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Tyne Slipway and Engineering, 'Hand'

Place:
South Shields

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:
1998 by David Gross. A large wooden hand stained a dull red, with a propeller in its palm. Sited above the river bank in a privately owned shipyard, but visible from the road outside and from the river bank in North Tyneside. The sculptor collaborated with pupils from SS Peter and Paul's RC Primary School. 'Hand' is meant to be "a symbolic greeting to ships entering the River Tyne". Part of the Art on the Riverside scheme. Commissioned by the Customs House Charitable Trust on behalf of South Tyneside MBC.

Easting:
364

Northing:
681

Grid Reference:
NZ364681

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 175-6