The steel sculpture, which cost £800,000 and sits beside the A1 motorway, is a beloved sign of home to thousands of northerners, and university students passing by the hilltop monument on journeys back to Tyneside and the further North East every day.
Similarly, for students of Newcastle they can find more of celebrated artist Antony Gormley’s art closer to the daily commute with the recently reinstalled ‘CLASP’ artwork first loaned to Newcastle University on the 20th anniversary of the Angle of the North in 2018 made of 18 individual blocks which Gormley describes as “two stacks of blocks mutual support and together, they make a concentrated, single sculpture that is both body and building.”
Schools in Gateshead spent Wednesday 15 February celebrating the sculpture and icon of regional home space with council organised events; in addition to many private toasts to the symbol of the North East's industrial past and transition into the information age with visits, social media posts, and articles just like this.
