If you’re walking through Teesdale on the Teesdale Way you’re bound to encounter pairs of what look like milk churns or chimney pots, split down the middle and usually rust-red in colour. Inscribed vertically on each are the place names of the Teesdale parishes whose boundaries they mark: Middleton-in-Teesdale, Eggleston, Romaldkirk, Hunderthwaite, Cotherstone, Lartingon, Barnard …
Sheep at Low Force (2002) is a sculpture in limestone by Keith Alexander, a local artist who lives in the North East near Barnard Castle. Keith, who was born in 1956 and has other installations close by, near Holwick, created the sculpture in full view of the public and considered them to be elemental in …
If you’re a fan of Ray Lonsdale’s sculptures this should be right up your street: it’s a 67-mile multi-terrain cycle ride visiting all of the artist’s current installations in County Durham, UK. Touring many of the colliery towns and villages in what was previously the ‘Durham Coalfield’, it includes his best known work ‘Tommy’ on …
