A sculpture honouring a region’s mining heritage is to be unveiled to the public at an event which celebrates its history. <\/p>\n
It features the figure of a miner symbolising those who worked in the industry across the north-east of England, surrounded by pit buildings and will be on display at the Northumberland Miner’s Picnic at Woodhorn Museum in Ashington on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It has been created by artist John O’Rourke who has worked with students from Northumbria University on a “maquette” or model of the sculpture.<\/p>\n
The proposed full version would be made from Corten steel, the same material as the Angel of the North, and would stand at 12.3 metres (40 ft) tall.<\/p>\n
Student Ali Alamin translated O’Rourke’s technical drawings into components, before laser cutting and hand-finishing them for assembly.<\/p>\n
“Being involved in a project of this scale, one that speaks to the history and culture of the region, gives you an enormous sense of pride,” the 22-year-old said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculpture honouring a region’s mining heritage is to be unveiled to the public at an event which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-498362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}