National Glass Centre, 'Light Transformer'
National Glass Centre, 'Light Transformer'
HER Number
11166
District
Sunderland
Site Name
National Glass Centre, 'Light Transformer'
Place
Monkwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
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
1998 by Zora Palova and Stepan Pala. Three slabs of blue glass in an oval shape - the largest work of cast glass in the UK, with a textured surface and small cracks running through it, set on a concrete pedestal. Made at a glass kiln at Bratislava. On the roof of the glass centre.
Easting
440400
Northing
557770
Grid Reference
NZ440400557770
Sources
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 191; City of Sunderland, 1998, publicart.sunderland.com