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11032


Newcastle


Newcastle, Charlotte Square, 'Peace Sculpture'


Newcastle


NZ26SW


Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces


Street Furniture


Sculpture


Modern


C20


Structure


1990 by Dawn Whitworth. Commissioned by Northumbria Police. A sculpture of a dove emerged from gun barrels, cast in dark brown metal. This design won a prize in a competition on the theme of peace organised by Newcastle Polytechnic and sponsored by Northumbria Police. The sculpture is cast from the metal of guns handed into police during a firearms amnesty in 1988.


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Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, pp 101-2

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