A Fair Field Full of Folk
Aug. 4th, 2021 08:36 pmLong ago, when the Angel of the North was still a not-altogether-popular proposal for which Gateshead council was engaged in a charm offensive, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler and I went to see Antony Gormley's Field for the British Isles, in what I remember as an ill-lit engine shed somewhere in Gateshead: thousands of little clay homunculi staring up at us out of the gloom. Since then it has won the Turner Prize, and the Angel has become not just a National Treasure but a local hero as well - and the Field for the British Isles is paying a return visit to the north east. So yesterday we went to the Sunderland Glass Centre, to see it again.
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After which we ordered a pot of Earl Grey tea each to drink at the café's outdoor tables, and I stocked up on cards from the gift shop while I waited for it to arrive.
durham_rambler and I went to see Antony Gormley's Field for the British Isles, in what I remember as an ill-lit engine shed somewhere in Gateshead: thousands of little clay homunculi staring up at us out of the gloom. Since then it has won the Turner Prize, and the Angel has become not just a National Treasure but a local hero as well - and the Field for the British Isles is paying a return visit to the north east. So yesterday we went to the Sunderland Glass Centre, to see it again.( More of the same ... )
After which we ordered a pot of Earl Grey tea each to drink at the café's outdoor tables, and I stocked up on cards from the gift shop while I waited for it to arrive.
