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Tickets for Van Gogh Alive available from 4 August

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Tickets for the highly-anticipated Van Gogh Alive go on sale on 4 August, with Novocastrians set to snap them up in droves.

Newcastle will play host to the digital spectacular at Foreshore Park, from 22 September until 23 October, as a precursor to the City’s New Annual program, which takes place from 23 September to 2 October.

Presented in a specially-designed 2,300-square-metre gallery known as The Grand Pavilion, Van Gogh Alive features more than 3,000 high-definition images of the artist’s work, projected at a scale that allows visitors to experience the paintings like never before.

One local keen to soak up the atmosphere is James Drinkwater.

The Newcastle artist described Van Gogh, who was his favourite painter as a child, as being “in the pantheon of the greats”.

“I welcome the opportunity to see this show in Newcastle,” he said.

“The city’s ‘coming of age’ culturally and an event such as this one will make art more accessible to the wider community.

“This is a marker of the times and acts as a conduit between the wonderful and complex social spectrum of Newcastle.”

Created and produced by Grande Experiences, Van Gogh Alive is co-produced by Andrew Kay in association with BBC and Alex Fane in The Grand Pavilion.

“After mesmerising a global audience of more than 8.5 million people and selling-out cities all over the world, including Rome, London and Beijing, we’re incredibly excited that it now comes to Newcastle,” said Bruce Peterson, owner of Grande Experiences.

“It’s also been an international hit, thrilling audiences across the globe since the first experience launched at the Art Science Museum in Singapore in 2011,” Mr Kay added.

Van Gogh Alive provides audiences with the opportunity to plunge themselves in the life and work of Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, through a vibrant symphony of light, colour and fragrance, set to an evocative classical soundtrack.

An interpretive area provides an educational introduction to some of his most famous paintings, before the cutting-edge technology of the SENSORY4 TM Gallery transports visitors inside the artist’s greatest works, with images projected onto virtually every surface.

For more details, visit www.vangoghalive.com.au

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