IN THE BOOKLET

Nov 13 2009 by Tony Henderson, The Journal

THE recently restored 1960s Victor Pasmore concrete Apollo pavilion in Peterlee has long been the subject of controversy.

Anna Woodford who wrote the artworks booklet, said: “For some, it is the ugly-beautiful height of modernism. Others can’t see past the kids who hang off it.”

Other artworks are fashioned from less permanent materials.

Near the C2C cycleway Andy Goldsworthy created the Jolly Drovers Maze at Leadgate and the Lambton Worm near Chester-le-Street.

David Kemp’s The Old Transformers at Consett features two sculptures representing an iron master and a miner.

Terris Novalis is by Tony Cragg, who went on to win the Turner Prize. His two giant stainless steel 19th Century surveyor’s instruments stand on the site of the former Consett steelworks.

William Pye’s water work, Charybdis, fronts Seaham Hall Hotel, Keith Alexander’s stone sheep are frozen into place at Low Force in Teesdale, while Colin Roses’s The Roundy, a giant lump of cast coal and resin, is sited in Ushaw Moor.

The Spennymoor Letters, by Ira Lightman and Dan Civico, feature poems which make up letters across locations in the town which in turn spell Spennymoor .