Westoe Village Gateway
Acclaimed lettercutter Richard Kindersley was selected to create text-based artworks within an urban landscaping scheme for Westoe Village Gateway organized by Arts UK.
The main text is carried on the largest standing stone and is 'Blow The Wind Southerly', a Northumbrian folk song probably best remembered being sung by Kathleen Ferrier, herself a famous English singer who came from Westoe Village. Other carved texts bring together the work of Philip Larkin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Henrik Ibsen, Sir Isaac Newton, Alcaeus and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry around the theme of the sea.
