Barton was commissioned by metro operator Nexus alongside three other artists to design artwork for the interior of 46 new metro carriages after winning a competition.<\/p>\n
The project depicts local historic figures such as the 20th century suffragette Kathleen Brown and the founders of Newcastle’s Chinatown Koon Kiu Cheng and her husband Peter Cheng.<\/p>\n
“There’s so many brilliant people in the North East, it was really hard just picking a few, but I decided to blend it together and get a group who were really important to different community groups,” said Barton.<\/p>\n
She said the designs themselves were inspired from her background growing up in Benwell, Newcastle, as well as her Punjabi heritage.<\/p>\n
“My mum was a seamstress, so I got exposed to lots of bright colours, sequins, and gold – but it’s also got that heritage of Pakistani truck art and things like that.”<\/p>\n
The exhibition in the Baltic will also feature unique artworks for sale from local community and charitable organisations.<\/p>\n
Barton explained: “It’s kind of part of that community building, because I feel this project is all about community, belonging and bringing people together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barton was commissioned by metro operator Nexus alongside three other artists to design artwork for the interior of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-398455","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-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}