The artwork is located on the clifftops overlooking the iconic Tynemouth seafront, close to Tynemouth Rowing Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It features a larger-than-life park bench with local scenes, and a 1.8 metre vintage bicycle propped up alongside it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sculpture is a striking new tourist attraction for the town, celebrating the point where six long-distance cycle paths meet on the National Cycle Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The routes attract thousands of visitors every year, from the UK and overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We worked with Destination North East England, North East Combined Authority, North Tyneside Council, NewcastleGateshead Initiative and Visit Northumberland to develop the sculpture with Ray.<\/p>\n
It was funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.<\/p>\n
A new landmark for the North East<\/p>\n
The artist is famous for his public artworks of large-scale steel sculptures such as Herring Girl in North Shields and \u2018Big Fella\u2019 in Silloth.<\/p>\n
Ray said: \u201cAs a cyclist myself, I am delighted to be selected to create a sculpture marking the end of the coast to coast routes. I wanted to try to make something that attracts interest and photo opportunities, and that relays a little of the history of the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artwork is located on the clifftops overlooking the iconic Tynemouth seafront, close to Tynemouth Rowing Club.\u00a0 It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,36142,43904,43905,784,43907,43903,43899,43906,85,43900,43908,43902,43901],"class_list":["post-52469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bench","tag-c2c","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-cycling","tag-destination-north-east-england","tag-national-cycle-network","tag-ray-lonsdale","tag-six-routes","tag-sports","tag-steel-sculpture","tag-sustrans","tag-tynemouth","tag-vintage-bicycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}