Article 6JDEG Turner-listed artist brings landscape into 19th-century Northumberland hall

Turner-listed artist brings landscape into 19th-century Northumberland hall

by
Mark Brown North of England correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#6JDEG)

Ingrid Pollard sets tree cuts and lumps of stone against refined features of Greek revival Belsay Hall

A pile of previously unloved tree cuts attached to rope sit on cheap plywood in a room with fine floorboards and beautiful walnut doors.

In an architecturally remarkable hallway is a discarded lump of sandstone, suspended among the immaculately crafted colonnades and some of the finest stonemasonry to be found anywhere in the UK. Elsewhere, ordinary slate roof tiles have been gathered together and look like they can be toppled like dominoes at any time.

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