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Flash point

By: a-n

Flash@Hebburn is an innovative £150K artwork for the twenty-first century inspired by industrial heritage and the romance of electricity that has already touched the lives and captured the imagination of a whole community.

It was installed at Hebburn Riverside Park on the banks of the River Tyne in South Tyneside in March as the final creative instalment of North East England's 'Art on the Riverside' public art experience. A permanent artwork, Flash@Hebburn, uses cutting-edge sustainable technology (solar energy) to power and illuminate its imaginative vision. The work by Leeds-based Charles Quick uses the medium of light to communicate a visual narrative that symbolises generations of industrial activity; as the shipyards and other areas of hard graft are proudly recognised as the town's very own branding mark on the arm of global industry. The twelve independently powered eight-metre tall bespoke columns display a series of eight uniquely programmed flash sequences (activated by movement), all inspired by notions created by local people. The artwork will become known as the 'Heartbeat of Hebburn' for time ever after. South Tyneside Council, the commissioners of Flash@Hebburn, have incorporated a visionary approach to the project, by not only addressing the long-term benefits of introducing cutting edge public art to Hebburn Riverside Park, but by involving local people from the offset and...

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