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Worst public art in Ireland

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  • #92
    username123
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    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    There's a sculpture in Carlow that's supposed to be two kings thrones but looks like a pair of boots. The only picture I can find of it on the internet is one that for some reason was posted sideways so you'll have to turn your head to look at it. http://www.carlowtourism.net/index.php?module=media&pId=102&id=1480&category=gallery/Towns/Leighlinbridge&start=0
    .............................
    I found another picture of the 'boots'. http://www.inmagine.com/irishimages-004/ptg02841811-photo

    I thought they were meant to be boots? Are they not Lord Bagenals Boots?


  • #93
    debabyjesus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭debabyjesus


    pauliebdub wrote: »
    That one near Naas which the ball and the road markings is actually quite nice, the one further out on the M7 near Kildare is horrific and belongs in a childrens playground.

    "Race of the Black Pig" by Dan George

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

    Thats the one. After reading that scutter about it, it truly deserves the title.


  • #94
    diomed
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    Yamanoto wrote: »
    The Shinners actually took exception to the restoration of that dainty gazebo opposite, describing it as 'inappropriate, unnecessary and offensive'.
    They even held a picket ffs.
    http://republican-news.org/archive/2003/May15/15dunl.html
    The "Famine Queen". A new low for the shinnerbots.


  • #95
    conorhal
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    boombang wrote: »
    This isn't in Ireland, but I wanted to point out how things could be worse. I used to walk past this on my way to work in Rotterdam:

    Rotterdam Gnome

    I think there is some rule in Dutch planning law that for large building a certain percentage of the budget has to go into a piece of public art. Consequently the country is covered in nonsense.

    It seems somehow appropriate that the Dutch should comission statue of a midgit with a massive dildo. It probably belongs in Amsterdam though...

    The same rule applies here. A certian amount of a moterway budget spend is required to be spent on public art to go along side the road, hence the many thoughtless abominations that litter the verges of our motorways.


  • #96
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    pauliebdub wrote: »
    That one near Naas which the ball and the road markings is actually quite nice, the one further out on the M7 near Kildare is horrific and belongs in a childrens playground.

    "Race of the Black Pig" by Dan George

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

    Jusus fúcken christ what a load of horseshít. After reading that I wanted to puke, punch the artist and then puke again - on top of him. Now all I want to do is get rid of that overpriced rubbish and have it replaced by something quality such as the bull and ploughman near Nenagh.


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  • #97
    whisky_galore
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    nibtrix wrote: »
    Ugh, I stupidly started reading that webpage and now I hate the art even more!

    What a stinking load of drunken rambling pretentious twaddle.


  • #98
    Irish Guitarist
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    username123 wrote: »
    I thought they were meant to be boots? Are they not Lord Bagenals Boots?
    From Wikipedia:
    At the northern entrance to the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, is a sculpture by Michael Warren, depicting the thrones of the ancient seat of the Kings of South Leinster at Dinn Righ (The hill of the Kings). The Kings of Leinster lived near the village.[1]


  • #99
    Oryx
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    Another Dan George in Wexford:

    http://wendyandjohn.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/20120801-134820.jpg


  • #100
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Oryx wrote: »
    Another Dan George in Wexford:

    http://wendyandjohn.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/20120801-134820.jpg

    I actually like that one.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #101
    Oryx
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    I actually like that one.
    This is what the county council has to say about it.

    Six double ring aluminium units. Fixed between the rings of each unit are images with coloured highway reflective sheeting. As viewers pass by the installation, seventy-five metres in length, the rings appear to move or shift in relationship to each other. These shifts create a cinematic unfolding of the imagery.The rings refer to the circular structure of earthworks, crop marks and Norman architecture found throughout the area. The shape and presence of the coloured imagery is derived from the area roadways as described on Ordnance Survey Map 36. Further incorporation of symbols include the profile of pottery shards found during the road’s excavation as well as other archaeological findings. Together these images give the impression of early Celtic script. Associated Scheme: N25 Rathsillagh to Harristown Road Realignment Scheme


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  • #102
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Oryx wrote: »
    This is what the county council has to say about it.

    I still like it.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #103
    MonstaMash
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    I love the four bog oak stallion sculptures on the Nurney/Kildare roundabout & the Fionn MacCumhaill sculpture on the Curragh roundabout.


  • #104
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    I really like lots of these :o


    The only thing I can think of that gets on my nerves are the portraits in Dublin airport, I like the idea of it but the people they chose hmmm. I hate every time I arrive in the airport and I'm greeted by Gerry Adams ugly mug along with the faces of property developers etc.


  • #105
    Obliq
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    Niall09 wrote: »
    This galvanised ****er on the way into Charleville

    http://pb-i4.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/222064-1363126773-0.jpg

    I love that one! Brightens up being stuck in Charleville traffic :D There's more awful bits of straight metal bar stuff on the Limerick/Cork road though, "designed" to make some kind of pattern during a milisecond as you drive past. Never figured it out yet. There's a nice one of fish swimming up to a wheel though, in polished steel it looks like. Somewhere on that road...


  • #106
    CrabRevolution
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    I'm pleasantly surprised at the actual amount of good art around the country shown on this thread. Some absolute awful ones too but I think they are the minority.

    Its not great, but on a roundabout in my town they recently put up a small monument of a monk ringing a bell. I think its surprisingly nice and simple. Rather than some abstract nothingness by a yuppy artist that has a mind boggling desciption like "It represents the transcendance of Europeaness in a context of togetherness and benevolent harmony".

    Also something's seriously wrong in AH when someone posts a thread about something bad in Ireland and most of the responses are actually positive examples of things we've done.


  • #107
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    CrabRevolution wrote: »
    I'm pleasantly surprised at the actual amount of good art around the country shown on this thread. Some absolute awful ones too but I think they are the minority.

    Its not great, but on a roundabout in my town they recently put up a small monument of a monk ringing a bell. I think its surprisingly nice and simple. Rather than some abstract nothingness by a yuppy artist that has a mind boggling desciption like "It represents the transcendance of Europeaness in a context of togetherness and benevolent harmony".

    Also something's seriously wrong in AH when someone posts a thread about something bad in Ireland and most of the responses are actually positive examples of things we've done.

    or worse still....

    title: untitled


  • #108
    Teyla Emmagan
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    Rocket19 wrote: »
    Has to be the Greystones beach bear.

    *shudder*

    It's the most beautiful landscape there, and the sculpture looks so so weird and out of place (IMO).

    http://www.wicklownews.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bear.jpg

    That bear is really sinister and creepy.


  • #109
    Frank Lee Midere
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    From what I've seen here, the lads who did the Hugh O'Donnell statue and the dancers should get to do them all from now on.


  • #110
    Poca Nose
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    orangesoda wrote: »
    The Hugh O'Donnell monument

    Aw, I love that monument!


  • #111
    Poca Nose
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    Niall09 wrote: »
    This galvanised ****er on the way into Charleville

    I love that. :)


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  • #112
    HeidiHeidi
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    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    That bear is really sinister and creepy.

    Oh I love those bears as well! I think the State should have bought the lot of them when they were being taken away from O'Connell St (or was that the hares???)

    Anyway, there's three of them at the Point Depot, and they also make me smile every time I pass them!

    http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Ireland/South/Dublin/photo1432240.htm


  • #113
    Poca Nose
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    Rocket19 wrote: »
    Has to be the Greystones beach bear.

    *shudder*

    It's the most beautiful landscape there, and the sculpture looks so so weird and out of place (IMO).

    I like it, it has a sense of humour.


  • #114
    Dolbert
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Oh I love those bears as well! I think the State should have bought the lot of them when they were being taken away from O'Connell St (or was that the hares???)

    Anyway, there's three of them at the Point Depot, and they also make me smile every time I pass them!

    http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Ireland/South/Dublin/photo1432240.htm

    The hares were on O'Connell Street and were by the late Barry Flanagan. There's something magical about his stuff.

    http://www.clematisinternational.com/ir21.jpg


  • #115
    thimble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭thimble


    Ugly lumps of wood in Sligo: www. publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/hold-fast-hang-ten-sligo/76d6c01b89ccb376c715abea63b09892/


  • #116
    Aidric
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    The spire without doubt. Absolute abomination for the outlay.


  • #117
    Poca Nose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Poca Nose


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Pretty crappy effort at a corrugated iron bovine compared to this...

    Wow, that is amazing. :eek:

    I'm kind of in awe of (talented) sculptors.

    Still like the Charleville cow too though. :P


  • #118
    Poca Nose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Poca Nose


    Aidric wrote: »
    The spire without doubt. Absolute abomination for the outlay.

    I'm not mad keen on it aesthetically, but from an engineering perspective, it's pretty cool.


  • #119
    Poca Nose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭Poca Nose


    I used to live in Wiltshire. It was so cool to spot white chalk horses on random hillsides. :)

    Then there was the white dick guy cut into a hillside in Dorset. Cerne Abbas Giant, I believe he's called :)

    I can't post links sadly as I'm too new a user.


  • #120
    cactuspaw
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    theres this in Bray, I'm not a fan,

    image.jpg


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  • #121
    Zaph
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    Oryx wrote: »
    This is what the county council has to say about it.

    Judging by his description of the scrap metal at the side of the N7, I'm guessing that they just regurgitated the pretentious sh*te that the artist fed them.
    --LOS-- wrote: »
    The only thing I can think of that gets on my nerves are the portraits in Dublin airport, I like the idea of it but the people they chose hmmm. I hate every time I arrive in the airport and I'm greeted by Gerry Adams ugly mug along with the faces of property developers etc.

    And one well known Boardsie :)


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