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Newcastle sheds clothes for US artist's latest 'nude
installation'
Sun Jul 17,12:53 PM ET
The famously fun-loving city of Newcastle is no stranger to public
nudity, but it is mainly carried out in the name of excessive
drunkenness rather than art.
In contrast, around 1,500 people stripped naked Sunday at various
locations around the city centre for the latest work by US artist
Spencer Tunick.
Tunick previously got 7,000 people to bare all in Barcelona in
2003, also photographing 4,000 naked people in Melbourne and 500 or
so who braved the escalators of London's famous Selfridges
department store while in the buff.
From 4:00 am (0300 GMT) on Sunday, the latest volunteers --
including some die-hard Tunick fans who have taken part in his
works around the world -- gathered at the Baltic Gallery in
Gateshead, just across the River Tyne from Newcastle city
centre.
They were then herded around for pictures at five locations,
including across the Millennium Bridge, lying down at the quayside
and walking through the city centre, one of Britain's most famous
nightlife hotspots.
"I needed 1,500 people to make this installation work and so I am
happy with that," Tunick said afterwards.
"I had to fill up Dean Street and I needed enough to make a thin
sliver of bodies. I got everything I needed and more."
One participant, 36-year-old school teacher Kenny Jamieson, taking
part with his wife, pronounced the experience "cold, but
bearable".
"If I hadn't done it I would have been annoyed that I had missed
it," he said.