Ireland's crappiest public art.

whisky_galore

I've noticed that just about every town and city has got these obligatory plaques or bronze sculptures of notables or something thrown together with a few rocks, usually at great expense. Limerick city being the latest getting a laughable 'likeness' of Terry Wogan.

Your nominations for crap public art, memorials and sculptures please!

leonffrench

There are some good ones too. The JFK statue in New Ross is excellent as it the Rory Gallagher statue in Ballyshannon. And also the Phil Lynott statue is a good one. But yes I agree every town and village seems to have some claim to fame that they cling to. Can't think of any obviously bad ones off the top of my head though.

The weird looking bronze work of Obama's head in Moneygall is pretty awful.

sjb25

this heap of sh1t on the gorey bypass rusting away cost €113,000 it would seem FFS

http://m.independent.ie/regionals/newrossstandard/news/roadside-art-proves-a-spikey-issue-27498001.html

Jrop

The Giant Turd at on the old Lucan Road Chapelizod beside the N4 Flyover

Alun

sjb25 wrote: »

this heap of sh1t on the gorey bypass rusting away cost €113,000 it would seem FFS

http://m.independent.ie/regionals/newrossstandard/news/roadside-art-proves-a-spikey-issue-27498001.html

I quite like it. Certainly better than a statue of Terry Wogan that doesn't even look like Terry Wogan.

I hate that yoke in Naas, very jarring



http://www.thejournal.ie/celtic-tiger-road-art-1885896-Jan2015/

sjb25

Alun wrote: »

I quite like it. Certainly better than a statue of Terry Wogan that doesn't even look like Terry Wogan.

Well granted but its still a heap of rusty metal on a hill and €113,000 :eek:

twill

Thomas Davis statue in College Green. So bad most of the the government of the day was against putting it up.

Hector Savage

sjb25 wrote: »

this heap of sh1t on the gorey bypass rusting away cost €113,000 it would seem FFS

http://m.independent.ie/regionals/newrossstandard/news/roadside-art-proves-a-spikey-issue-27498001.html

Jesus! is it still there ?
article is 7 years old, I can only imagine what the heap of sh1t is like now ... even rustier and the ground all stained brown around it ?

sjb25

Hector Savage wrote: »

Jesus! is it still there ?
article is 7 years old, I can only imagine what the heap of sh1t is like now ... even rustier and the ground all stained brown around it ?

Yes it is still there and yes it is even rustier

Boom_Bap

LadyMacBeth_

The Spire :P

whisky_galore

leonffrench wrote: »

But yes I agree every town and village seems to have some claim to fame that they cling to.

There was an outbreak of 1916 memorials last year, places with very tenuous links to the Rising formed a committee and put up some sort of plaque.

Shenshen

This :



Has to be. Seriously.

callaway92

The Anthony Foley thing in Limerick

Saw it in person there a week ago. Very creepy

biko

The Briarhill pillow

osarusan

Crappy art is one thing, and is very subjective, so some people will like it and others won't.


But statues of people that obviously don't even look anything like them is quite another.

andekwarhola

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

The Spire :P

The Spire is cool.

ChikiChiki

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

The Spire :P

Im with you on that. I mean come on to fook, surely someone could have came up with a better monument than whats essentially a very tall pole

Its akin to a needle, very fitting when you consider all the junkies up that way!

Shenshen

callaway92 wrote: »

The Anthony Foley thing in Limerick

Saw it in person there a week ago. Very creepy

Is it just me or does that look like a really elaborate gravestone?

Dyr

whisky_galore wrote: »

I've noticed that just about every town and city has got these obligatory plaques or bronze sculptures of notables or something thrown together with a few rocks, usually at great expense. Limerick city being the latest getting a laughable 'likeness' of Terry Wogan.

Your nominations for crap public art, memorials and sculptures please!

It looks more like Fred West tbh

Dyr

Shenshen wrote: »

This :



Has to be. Seriously.

Was James Joyce into the athletics?

The Sonia O'Sullivan and Anthony Foley ones are fairly shocking alright. Makes our sporting ones in Kerry seem decent enough, Mick O'Dwyer in Waterville and Crusher Casey in Sneem.

sillysmiles

I love the hedgehog on the Gorey bypass.

Blazer

I can get over the Anthony foley one but jaysus the Sonia one?’ It’s bloody awful. Should be melted down for candlesticks

Grayson

Joe Dolan in Mullingar. I grew up there but haven't been back since before it was built. Apparently it's tiny.

Dyr

Grayson wrote: »

Joe Dolan in Mullingar. I grew up there but haven't been back since before it was built. Apparently it's tiny.]

So was Joe, that's a great statue, wash your mouth out :mad:

darkdubh

Just wait for the inevitable MacGregor statue.

suicide_circus

Shenshen wrote: »

This :



Has to be. Seriously.

greencap

Draiocht - blanchardstown center.

Walk by it and you'll see a new load of shyte every week.

5 paper cups thrown on the ground to represent social disharmony, a leaf with 'why' painted on it, single plum floating in a bowler hat filled with perfume.

all that nonsense.

Murrisk

Shenshen wrote: »

This :



Has to be. Seriously.

Sonia deserves better than that. There are lots of graceful poses they could have had her in.

Murrisk

andekwarhola wrote: »

The Spire is cool.

Appearance-wise, it doesn't do much for it. But as an engineering feat, I really like it. The way it was constructed in pieces, with each piece narrowing towards the top and how all the piece fit together perfectly. Reminds me of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. At any point of the arch, the cross-section is an equilateral triangle. The Gateway Arch looks cooler though.

Baron Kurtz

Niall Quinn or maybe, Ronaldo

Sesame

This one:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/modern-ireland-in-100-artworks-1988-the-great-wall-of-kinsale-by-eil%C3%ADs-o-connell-1.2603307

murpho999

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

Niall Quinn or maybe, Ronaldo

That's not in Ireland.

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Roger Hassenforder

The thing on the Kildare motorway
A load of random metal sticks and stuff.
Apparently it's deliberate.

http://www.kildare.ie/arts/kildare-bypass-sculpture/race-of-the-black-pig.asp

Baron Kurtz

murpho999 wrote: »

That's not in Ireland.

I know, I know. But the Quinny likeness is funny.

xzanti

Shenshen wrote: »

This :



Has to be. Seriously.

They really didn't do her justice did they? Did she owe someone money or something? :pac: size of the feet :eek:

tabby aspreme

I see a new, "something" between the Athy and Kilcullen junctions on the M9 , not sure is it a piece of art or a religious thingy , light blue in color with what looks like white Lily's on it , about 4 m high, anyone know anything about it.

Bandana boy

I always thought the Neon walking Hooker on Parnell Square a bizarre one

tayto lover

Sesame wrote: »

This one:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/modern-ireland-in-100-artworks-1988-the-great-wall-of-kinsale-by-eil%C3%ADs-o-connell-1.2603307

I thought that was a skate board park.

Guy:Incognito

Shenshen wrote: »

This :



Has to be. Seriously.

Did they reuse a Christ that fell off a crucifix ?

o1s1n

Bandana boy wrote: »

I always thought the Neon walking Hooker on Parnell Square a bizarre one

I really love that! There were a few of them on O Connell Street a few years back. The Hugh Lane must have bought one.

Ipso

I was told that in the past when there was a new motorway built with EU funding, a sculpture was meant to go along with it and it had to be something that reflected local tradition/culture/folklore.
There is a very nice statue in the Curlew Mountains outside Sligo, I think there is one near Athlone that looks like four triangles pointing into the air that is meant to represent the Children of Lir.

Roger Hassenforder

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

The thing on the Kildare motorway
A load of random metal sticks and stuff.
Apparently it's deliberate.

http://www.kildare.ie/arts/kildare-bypass-sculpture/race-of-the-black-pig.asp

The outstanding winner of this contest by a mile and there is some tough candidates. What a piece of shíte that is. A permanent reminder of our Celtic Tiger senseless monkey spunking on ****e

Dan George eh?! Prove that you can bluff a living with any crap

osarusan

I actually find those pieces of art along motorways to be kind of distracting.

I like the tug of war one but cant think where it is at the moment, Tipperary?

Tefral

mariaalice wrote: »

I like the tug of war one but cant think where it is at the moment, Tipperary?

Nenagh By-pass

Flibble

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

The thing on the Kildare motorway
A load of random metal sticks and stuff.
Apparently it's deliberate.

http://www.kildare.ie/arts/kildare-bypass-sculpture/race-of-the-black-pig.asp

This always makes me so so angry when I pass it. It makes no sense as you're driving, just looks like something was vandalised & is broken into bits.

Hey, artist, if something needs you to stand there and explain it to people for them to get it (and the explanation is pretty crap, tbh) then maybe DON'T PUT IT BESIDE A MOTORWAY where every single person passing will be relying on literal seconds to form an opinion. Your Sculpture FAILS. It just looks horrible and messy and ridiculous.