You are invited to write a letter addressed to the Angel of the North. You can contribute to Dear Angel by attending the exhibition at Globe Gallery, Newcastle or by taking part in one of our participatory letter making sessions at Holy Island as part of the final weekend of Festival of the North East, at 36 Lime Street for Creative Ouseburn, or at the Angel's birthday party, Angel 15 , throughout June. Dear Angel will also be open to contributions in Durham during the Lindisfarne Gospels Cultural Programme
Your letter will be included in an artist book for the Festival of the North East by Newcastle based artist and writer Stevie Ronnie
This artwork is open to all contributions.
Your letter will be included in an artist book for the Festival of the North East by Newcastle based artist and writer Stevie Ronnie
This artwork is open to all contributions.
Tom Schofield
Artist, researcher and interaction designer, Tom Schofield, considers the immateriality and perceived impermanent nature of communications created on the digital, social platform twitter.
Optimism Skywards, a newly commissioned work, is an installation artwork which intervenes in participants’ twitter messages to the Angel of the North by giving them physical form and firing them skywards in an optimistic attempt to get them closer to the angels. It explores the relationship between physical space and the social space of twitter.
Optimism Skywards attempts to fulfil Dear Angel’s function by redirecting tweets a step further towards the angels.