A brand new visual arts trail will light up Northumberland this autumn to celebrate the arrival of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the North East.
Inspired by the Gospels' themes of light, sheep and pilgrimage, Illuminated Sheep by Deepa Mann-Kler will see a flock of life-sized sheep lit up in bright colours at some of the county's most evocative landmarks, including Bamburgh Castle, Vindolanda, Woodhorn Museum. Individual sheep will then be adopted and customised by local communities across the county to create a free Art Trail before the flock are rounded up for a final gathering at the Festival of Flame at Hexham Abbey on December 2.
Illuminated Sheep is part of a programme of events inspired by the display of the Lindisfarne Gospels at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle this autumn. This is the first time the ancient book, which was created during Anglo-Saxon England and is on loan from the British Library, has been on display in the region since 2013 when 100,000 people visited it at Durham Cathedral.
