Nocturne or The Light on the Tyne is a colorful light artwork, which is on Newcastles Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.
The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge carries the Tyne and Wear Metro across the River Tyne, between Newcastle and Gateshead. It was purpose-built to form a part of the Tyne and Wear public transport network at a cost of 4.9million. The queen officially opened the bridge in 1981, although it had already been in use for some time.
Since 1980, Nexus, operators of the Tyne and Wear Metro, has been commissioning artwork to improve their customers public transport experience. In 2006, they commissioned Nayan Kulkarni to install Nocturne, a huge artwork on the bridge. As the River Tynes Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge, High Level and Swing Bridges were already illuminated, it was decided that this artwork should light up the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge too.
After observing the water below the bridge, Kulkarni decided to use colour-changing lights on Nocturne. He said: “Like the slowly moving waters below the steelwork, I wanted to create a light work that would constantly change.”
To light the bridge, Nocturne uses 36 banks of LED lights, which...
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