Building on the success of the 2005 Great North Run Cultural Programme, we launched a series of exciting and innovative commissions in 2006.
Our programme included portraits of spectators and participants by Stephen Gill on billboards along the route and at a Quayside exhibition, a beautifully detailed drawing by Graham Dolphin, a film by Michael Baig-Clifford and Ravi Deepres, winners of the 2006 Moving Image Commission and an athletic dance performance choreographed by Neville Campbell.
We also launched an ambitious mass participation photography project by Julian Germain, The Running Line, for everyone to get involved with.
Runner takes its audience as close as possible to the mental and physical experience of running a half-marathon through sound and the moving image.
Stephen's affectionate portraits of the runners, spectators and staff at the 2005 BUPA Great North, Tesco Junior and Tesco Mini Runs were displayed on 20 billboards along the route of the BUPA Great North Run in Newcastle, Gateshead and South Shields and in an exhibition at Trinity Gardens on Newcastle's Quayside.
In 2006, Julian Germain launched an ambitious mass participation project, aiming to collect over 139,000 photographs of that year’s BUPA Great North Run.
Graham Dolphin created a new drawing based his experience of taking part in the 2004 BUPA Great North Run. Using a simple visual form, focusing on the idea of repetition, quiet reflection and the lone journey, he created an A1 drawing of straight lines, each line representing a single step that he took to complete the run.
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