Newgate Street, 'Ellipsis Eclipses'

HER Number

10999

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Newgate Street, 'Ellipsis Eclipses'

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Sculpture

General Period

21ST CENTURY

Specific Period

21st Century 2001 to 2100

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

2003 by Danny Lane. Next to The Gate. A 9m high glass sculpture, made up of six separate glass monoliths held together by a steel post-tensioning rod, standing on a stainless steel plinth with a hole punched through it. Commissioned by Grainger Town Partnership. The name is a play on words based on its form of the intersection of two circles (or elipses) like the eclipse of the moon or sun. Unveiled in March 2005. Commissioned by Grainger Town Partnership.

Easting

424560

Northing

564320

Grid Reference

NZ424560564320

Sources

Art On the Riverside, Grainger Town Partnership, Arts Council England, Nexus and Newcastle City Council, Public Art in Newcastle - A Guide (booklet); Ellipsis Eclipses, Danny Lane - leaflet by Newcastle City Council, One North East, Land Securities, Arts Council England, Grainger Town Partnership and The Gate; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 172