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Sycamore Gap tree exhibition opens to mark a year since its felling



Section of truck on display along with images sent in by public of the tree when it was still standing“I had this in my workshop for about a week and I came in one day and one of the people I work with was just hugging it,” said the artist Charlie Whinney, speaking in front of a nearly two-metre section of the tree’s trunk.It’s a lump of wood, but it’s not any lump of wood. It’s the largest remaining section of the felled Sycamore Gap tree, and it has gone on public display in Northumberland as if, rightly, it were an Old Master painting. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/27/sycamore-gap-tree-exhibition-opens-to-mark-a-year-since-its-felling

Author : Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Publish date : 2024-09-27 13:40:30

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