This summer new works by leading contemporary artists including the sculptor Ron Mueck, street artist Slinkachu and Mat Collishaw of the Young British Artists movement, will fill the beautiful grounds and historic rooms at Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens, a property in the care of English Heritage near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Open this month and running until 26th September 2010, Extraordinary Measures explores and plays with the concept of scale. A giant figure sits in the library, fairies and miniature day-trippers can be found in the grounds, and visitors are reduced to tiny figures as they pass through a huge window in the Quarry Garden. It is the sixth in the series of contemporary art exhibitions to be staged at Belsay.
