Using reclaimed timber, Wolfgang Weileder has replicated Dunston Staiths’ missing frames. The structure was partially destroyed by fire in 2003, leaving one end isolated from the other.
Gap as constructed at Newcastle University, ready to be installed in the Great North Museum.
The artwork, Gap, is a scale model of this section. The Great North Museum Hancock will host the work in March in order for it to be photographed again before being dismantled. Students at Newcastle University have helped to construct the work.
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