Metro Station, 'Fish'

HER Number

11123

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Metro Station, 'Fish'

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

1996 by Northern Freeform. A huge silver silver made from interlocked aluminium sheets with a paper mache head, suspended from the ceiling of the westbound platform. It was commissioned as a temporary work for the 1996 Fish Quay Festival but has remained in place ever since.

Easting

436620

Northing

569330

Grid Reference

NZ436620569330

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 209