Gone With The Wind: Laing Art Gallery

As the stardust settles on Tyneside after the colossal Bupa Great North Run 2014, the celebrated regional art movement Great North Run Culture is toasting 10 years at the top with one of its most popular commissions returning to the Laing Art Gallery opening this weekend. Gone With The Wind by Claire Morgan, first shown in 2008 to critical acclaim, is a delicate and dramatic work featuring a dense mass of thousands of seeds and a lone Kittiwake Gull - all native to the route of the worlds largest half-marathon - suspended in the air in a geometric form. Falling and swooping, the bird makes its way through the enormous mass and is set to dazzle and amaze the people of the region once more. Supported by ACE, Gone With The Wind is on show at the Laing Art Gallery from 20 September 2014 until 11 January 2015 and admission is free. Claire Morgan is a visual artist who creates contemporary sculpture and installation art. Born in Belfast, she attended the University of Ulster and graduated from the University of Northumbria in 2003 with a first class degree in Sculpture. She now lives and works in London. She has developed a strong interest in the organic, in natural processes, and in the bodily connotations of natural materials.