January
Think Las Vegas by Sharon Wilson
‘Think Las Vegas’ by Sharon Wilson is a temporary memorial to the closure of Swan Hunters Shipbuilding plant of Wallsend. The Hammerhead cranes are about to be severed from their historic location and sold to the Indian shipbuilding company Bharati. As the industrial landscape is reshaped, impacts on the community are not only economic but also about loss and nostalgia.
“This playful yet melancholic image attempts to deal with the post industrial present by looking at the edifices of urban regeneration and imagining new meanings. The iconic machinery is restaged as an impossible fairground attraction.”
Sharon Wilson