Quayside, Keelman Square, 'Column and Steps'

HER Number

11008

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Quayside, Keelman Square, 'Column and Steps'

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Sculpture

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

1996 by Andrew Burton. A series of curved shapes surrounding a tapered column, all in steel. There is a twisted abstract shape on top of the column. Commissioned by the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation.

Easting

425700

Northing

564030

Grid Reference

NZ425700564030

Sources

Art On the Riverside, Grainger Town Partnership, Arts Council England, Nexus and Newcastle City Council, Public Art in Newcastle - A Guide (booklet); Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 109; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 135