Metro Station, 'Mask'

HER Number

11122

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Metro Station, 'Mask'

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

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

A lime-wood mask, 1.3m high x 50cm wide set on a steel support. 1995 by David Gross. Commissioned by Nexus. The mask has a "fierce" expression reminiscent of an actor's mask of tragedy or perhaps to masks of the South Seas. Carved with the help of pupils from Norham Community High School.

Easting

436620

Northing

569330

Grid Reference

NZ436620569330

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 209-10;The Journal, Newcastle, 22 August 1995