Platform 4, Newcastle Station

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street

Born in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, Sheila Mackie studied art at Durham University. She later taught art at Consett Grammar School, a period during which she often visited a local circus which inspired many of her works. Mackie participated in group exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the Festival of Britain touring exhibition and the Royal Society of British Artists. In 2001 the Durham Art Gallery at the DLI Museum held a solo exhibition of her work entitled ‘Through the Eyes of a Dragon’. Mackie also produced illustrations for several books including a history of Lindisfarne by Magnus Magnusson and an illustrated version of ‘Beowulf’. Mackie lived and worked in Durham.

Places

England, Newcastle Railway Station, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear

Subjects

cart, railway station, steam train, signal, railway, paper (as Subject), topography, steam, smoke, man, advertising, signage, lamp post

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Sheila Gertrude Mackie (1928 - 2010)

Title

Platform 4, Newcastle Station

Date

c.1952

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 46.00 cm, width: 66.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal Society of British Artists, February 1953

Inscription

br: SGM

GAC number

2059