New statue of girl on horse unveiled - looks good?

gurramok · 2010-09-17 17:22:54

What ye think of the tracksuited look immersed in immortality? :) :D http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0917/ballymun.html

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What ye think of the tracksuited look immersed in immortality?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0917/ballymun.html

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A 16-foot bronze statue, which was commissioned as part of the Ballymun Regeneration Project, was unveiled today.

The monument of a local girl dressed in a tracksuit on the back of a military-style horse has been temporarily installed outside the local secondary school.

There are plans to move it to the Main Street, but some have objected saying it will encourage negative stereotypes.

Three years ago, when she 17, Toni Marie Shields was asked to model for a statue which would be the centrepiece of a regenerated Ballymun.

Today, now aged 20, she got the first glimpse of her teenage self immortalised in bronze.

The statue was supposed to be located on the Main Street in Ballymun, but plans to construct Metro North got in the way.

And some locals objected, saying it was not a good image for the new Ballymun.

The local secondary school, Trinity Comprehensive, agreed it could be located there.

Labour Councillor John Lyons said the statue should not be moved to the Main Street as reinforced negative stereotypes of the area and represented the old rather than the new Ballymun.

But the Director of the Axis Arts Centre, which commissioned the piece, says it is not supposed to represent the locals but to provoke discussion and debate.

He said the statue will be relocated to the Main Street of Ballymun whenever Metro North is completed, which they hope will be within the next five years.

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#2 17-09-2010 06:24PM

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I think its quite cool actually.

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#3 17-09-2010 06:26PM

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Feckin' disaster. Stupid looking yoke. Would be better off showing the girl getting her Leaving Cert or something. Surely there was something better to illustrate the new Ballymun?

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#4 17-09-2010 06:30PM

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Why, just why?

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#5 17-09-2010 06:31PM

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Brilliant. I love it. Brings to mind the warrior queens of ancient Ireland, yet with a contemporary feel!

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#6 17-09-2010 06:34PM

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But the Director of the Axis Arts Centre, which commissioned the piece, says it is not supposed to represent the locals but to provoke discussion and debate.

provoke discussion and debate about a skanger on a horse?

This guy needs less funding.

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#7 17-09-2010 06:36PM

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Quite a nice statue really isn't it?

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#8 17-09-2010 06:37PM

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I really like it. A stereotype? Maybe, but the truth is many Dubliners do wear tracksuits on a regular basis. The point they are missing is that this statue is not intended to judge the girl's clothing but simply represent what is a reality not a glossed over view. Like the article said it is intended to provoke discussion, it is up to us to interpret it.

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#9 17-09-2010 06:37PM

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A girl wearing a tracksuit on a military style horse! What a joke.....16ft statue must of cost a bit. Recession no?

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#10 17-09-2010 06:38PM

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um.......why?

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#11 17-09-2010 06:39PM

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Ah jaysus.

Im not one for whinging about expenditure and job losses etc, but this does take the biscuit.

Do you know how many wrecking balls you could have bought for the price of that?????!

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#12 17-09-2010 06:39PM

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Is the horse piebald?

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#13 17-09-2010 06:40PM

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PrincessLola wrote: »

... simply represent what is a reality not a glossed over view.

If that's what they were doing she wouldn't be sitting on a healthy looking military style horse.

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#14 17-09-2010 06:42PM

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At least she got a ride

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#15 17-09-2010 06:43PM

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So in a 100 years time, they will think we all went around tracksuit laden on horses, not looking good for the reputation of us to our childrens children children :P

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#16 17-09-2010 06:44PM

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I love it, its contemporary and classic at the same time. I understand ppl being upset about it due to the bad economic circumstances we find ourselves in. My only criticism is the style of horse.

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#17 17-09-2010 06:46PM

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prinz wrote: »

Would be better off showing the girl getting her Leaving Cert or something.

yeah but its supposed to be realistic;)

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#18 17-09-2010 06:47PM

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They should put it outside the Dail to remind Brian Cowen of the day he was a little hoarse.

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#19 17-09-2010 06:48PM

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RIP to the Girl

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

:pac:

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#20 17-09-2010 06:49PM

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Shams wrote: »

I love it, its contemporary and classic at the same time. I understand ppl being upset about it due to the bad economic circumstances we find ourselves in. My only criticism is the style of horse.

That was the cheap model. A piebald cast would have to be done from scratch while the 16ft charger is always in demand throughout europe,

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#21 17-09-2010 06:51PM

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Dublin what a classy city...a spike is the main monument, they'll have a train station named after a memeber of a boy band, now a 16th station of a girl in a tracksuit riding a horse.

The Paris tourist board must be sh1tting it...the Arc de Triomphe, the Effiel Tower and the Louve Musesum are no match for Dublin what has to offer

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#22 17-09-2010 06:52PM

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I'd get up on that.

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#23 17-09-2010 06:53PM

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Interesting that some here think just because she's one of the kids that take care of horses, that she hasn't got a Leaving Cert..

Oh noes, but how could she without grinds and like, private school?

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#24 17-09-2010 06:53PM

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Please tell me this is from the Onion.

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#25 17-09-2010 06:54PM

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#26 17-09-2010 06:55PM

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spurious wrote: »

Interesting that some here think just because she's one of the kids that take care of horses, that she hasn't got a Leaving Cert.. Oh noes, but how could she without grinds and like, private school?

Who thinks she hasn't got a Leaving Cert? Where did I say that? Think before you engage your typing fingers.

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#27 17-09-2010 06:57PM

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And some locals objected, saying it was not a good image for the new Ballymun

Ah, the special relationship between a girl and her pony. How exactly is that not a good image?

But the Director of the Axis Arts Centre, which commissioned the piece, says it is not supposed to represent the locals but to provoke discussion and debate.

If it did represent the locals, it'd be an awful piebald horse...

I actually think it's quite nice.

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#28 17-09-2010 07:05PM

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Hazys wrote: »

Dublin what a classy city...a spike is the main monument, they'll have a train station named after a memeber of a boy band, now a 16th station of a girl in a tracksuit riding a horse.

The Paris tourist board must be sh1tting it...the Arc de Triomphe, the Effiel Tower and the Louve Musesum are no match for Dublin what has to offer

What's that about a train station?

I think it's good. It is representative of the area. There is no denying that. Mind you, you could put it in Ballyfermot, Clondalkin or Tallaght and it would be as at home as it is in Ballymun.

The only difference between horse riders in Dublin and those in Kildare are the clothes.
But let's not allow that to get in the way of some good old fashioned AH snobbery.

OMG Skangers on horses lol

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#29 17-09-2010 07:07PM

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I say we take off & nuke the entire site from orbit.

Its the only way to be sure.

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#30 17-09-2010 07:08PM

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Terry wrote: »

What's that about a train station?

I think it's good. It is representative of the area. There is no denying that. Mind you, you could put it in Ballyfermot, Clondalkin or Tallaght and it would be as at home as it is in Ballymun.

The only difference between horse riders in Dublin and those in Kildare are the clothes.
But let's not allow that to get in the way of some good old fashioned AH snobbery.

OMG Skangers on horses lol

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055963097

TBH i havent really followed the story so i dont know if the statue was built or still to be built

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#31 17-09-2010 07:09PM

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I just don't get it.

Whats the relationship/connection between a young girl in a tracksuit on a horse and the area the statue was placed in?

Is there a prize for solving the mystery of the artist's sculpture?

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