Abstract

An Exhibtition of Thomas Bewick Woodcuts.Part of a WALK project , called to Bewick and Back that With support from Sunderland Cultural Partnership, since July 2014, WALK, using funding from a Your Heritage grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, has been working on Bewick and Back. At the project’s core was a series of ‘Walks’ along the banks of the Tyne from Newcastle to Bewick’s birthplace at Cherryburn and back to Gateshead. These walks were led by natural historian Keith Bowey, artist Marcia Ley of the University of Sunderland. During these walks, the project ‘explored’ the significance of this route, its landscapes and wildlife and, using words and art, began to investigate how the experience of walking though this landscape connected the participants to Bewick, and vice-versa.