Black Rhinoceros
Art In Newcastle City Centre, Tyne And Wear
A sculpture by artist, Christine Hill, erected in 1991 as 'a reminder that the rhino, one of the world's great animals, is threatened with extinction by the greed of mankind'.
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Did you know that there was a Rhino outside the Great North Museum? Hippos in Killingworth and Rhino in the toon...it's a veritable street safari!
This sculpture depicts an endangered black rhino and was made by artist Christine Hill in 1991 as 'a reminder that the rhino, one of the world's great animals, is threatened with extinction by the greed of mankind'.
Hill was a graduate of Sunderland College of Art and created this as her final degree piece, inspired by her travels to Africa and her disdain for the poaching industry.
One of the founders of The Great North Museum: Hancock, John Hancock: a naturalist and ornithologist is stated to have been:
of Spartan simplicity and temperance. He was kind and gentle, patient and ever ready to take the utmost pains to explain to others' problems in natural history which he had worked out himself. All children and all animals loved him. He was never tired of teaching the former how to collect and preserve their specimens and he was ever solicitous of the comfort and welfare of the latter.
Hopefully, he'd have approved of this piece of street art, which aims to outline the plight of the endangered species and its place in natural history.
Made on a steel frame of concrete with a lacquer coating, Hill believed that if she approached the then Hancock Museum to exhibit her work publicly that it might help people to understand the perils of poaching.
The major objective is to show people the wonders of the natural world.
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Contributed by Jos Forester-Melville
Highland loving human. Thalassophile. I love a good smile. Happiest heading for the hills with my pickup filled with kids and dogs! Working four days, we enjoy a Fridate, and usually spend it scouting out new scenery. I love a gated track, a bit of off roading and if it involves a full ford, well, that gets extra points! I go nowhere without a flask and binoculars, and love the small things in life that make it big…Goldcrests, dry stone walls, Deadman’s fingers, blackberries and quality clouds.
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