Cragside
Former home of Lord Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, a Victorian law student and solicitor, who became an extraordinary inventor. W.G. Armstrong was the largest employer in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Cragside was the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity.
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Cragside is currently hosting LUX, an exhibition of temporary artworks responding to both the incredible location and the notion of light. Six different artists have responded to this theme – and the general environment – for a whole range of arresting works including Andrew Burton’s Light Vessel (a delightful sculpture made up of thousands of small glass bricks using the sun as the source of light), Jem Finer’s Spiegelei Junior III (a sculptural camera obscura), Catherine Bertola’s In the pursuit of perfection (an installation of an apple tree with bronze cast, gold gilded apples) and Imogen Cloet’s Illumine (an immersive installation in the historic interior of the dining room).
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Cragside is currently hosting LUX, an exhibition of temporary artworks responding to both the incredible location and the notion of light. Six different artists have responded to this theme – and the general environment – for a whole range of arresting works including Andrew Burton’s Light Vessel (a delightful sculpture made up of thousands of small glass bricks using the sun as the source of light), Jem Finer’s Spiegelei Junior III (a sculptural camera obscura), Catherine Bertola’s In the pursuit of perfection (an installation of an apple tree with bronze cast, gold gilded apples) and Imogen Cloet’s Illumine (an immersive installation in the historic interior of the dining room).
