Back to the City NEWCASTLE

"Back to the City" is a series of temporary urban art interventions taking over the city of Newcastle from today into February. Sixteen teams of artists, architects and landscape architects have developed site specific displays by utilising the mix of their disciplines and being challenged to represent the rebuilding and revitalising of the cityscape and harbour.
I have spotted a few of the spaces and hope to ride around some time in the next few days to check them all out!!
They are something like the original idea I had for an Advent/Christmas themed set up which was worked on and expanded and modified to the achievable by the Smartartz mob [see flickr images in the right margin] who rightly focused on an alternative approach to gifts and consumerism through 'fairtrade'.
There's so much potential for this kind of project to bring themes and stories from the Christian faith story and tradition without providing answers, well trodden images and impressions.

Stay tuned for pictures BUT the whole project is explained HERE.
Check out some more pics in the flickr box [right margin]!!