Building Bridges
05 Sep - 11 Oct 2009
The natural drama of the Tyne gorge has always placed its bridges at the heart of Tyneside's urban iconography, from the Romans Pons Aelius to the Gateshead Millennium Bridge and beyond.
Bringing together paintings, photography and film, this exhibition celebrates the responses these bridges have evoked and the lives that have been lived around them.One of the centrepieces will be JWM Turner's watercolour of Newcastle and Gateshead along his sketches of Tyneside, on loan from Tate especially for this exhibition.
This exhibition is part of the Reinventing the City programe. For more information or to sign up to the mailing list visit www.reinventingthecity.org.uk
Reinventing the City forms part of NewcastleGateshead's world-class programme of festivals and events developed by culture10.The projectis a collaboration initiated by Amber between the Lit & Phil/Mining Institute, Newcastle University and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.