When was the baltic art gallery built

Spencer Tunick, NewcastleGateshead, Heather Philipson, Yes, surprising is the existence in the post-vegetal cosmorama, Photo: Colin Davison. BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, England and has welcomed over seven million visits since opening to the public in July Level 3 holds an art space which is carefully environmentally controlled so that sensitive and fragile artworks can be exhibited, free from the threat of damage from light, moisture or changing temperatures.

If you look carefully as you go up the scenic lifts you may see it. In an attempt to create wide interest in the gallery, and move it out of the "elite art ghetto" , attempts have been made to spread the word around the community.

Local taxi drivers and hairdressers have been invited for a sneak preview after Baltic bosses figured they were the people most members of the public chatted to. Other works included in the gallery's opening exhibition will include a Tyne bridge recreation and a series of other bridges made from new and antique pieces of the children's toy, Meccano by US artist Chris Burden.

The Catalan artist Jaume Plensa will recreate his giant beam that lit the outside of the mill in , produced by the same firm that commemorated New York's ground zero with two rays of light. The Baltic, which was funded mainly through lottery money , was built inside the shell of the Rank Hovis mill and silo. The six-floor gallery now boasts 3, sq metres of galleries, a cinema, lecture theatre, workshops and artists' studios.

The Baltic flour mill was opened as a working mill for the production of flour and animal feed in by Rank Hovis. Often art installations take on, or pervert, the nature of the space they occupy. His design retained much of the existing character of the building with its imposing brick exterior and concrete fins.

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