Arts & Culture
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The Angel of the NorthThe Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture designed by Antony Gormley. The steel structure stands 20m (66ft) tall with a wing span of 54m (177ft) across. It was completed in February 1998, four years after work on the project began and cost somewhere in the region of £1million, a substantial amount of which was funded by the National Lottery. The Angel of the North stands on top of a hill on the Southern edge of Low Fell, a suburb of Gateshead, overlooking the A1 and the A167 roads and the East Coast Mainline. For more information visit www.gateshead.gov.uk/angel/index.
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary ArtThe BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is an international centre for contemporary art located on the South Bank of the River Tyne alongside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. It provides a constantly changing programme of exhibitions and events. It is housed in a landmark industrial building, the Baltic Flour Mill, which was completed in 1950 to a late 1930's design by Gelder and Kitchen. In the mid 1990's Dominic Williams of Ellis Williams Architects won an RIBA architectural design competition to convert the 1950's Baltic Flour Mill into an international centre for comtemporary art. For more information visit www.balticmill.com.
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