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Worst public art in Ireland
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Cattle seem to be quite popular in Ireland. I like these in a place called markethill in Armagh.
And also the bull on the M1 in Louth, it's amazing how it's made, although blink and you've missed it.
The salmon of knowledge in Belfast is excellent too.
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Taxpayer funded public art is one of my pet hates and one of the worst examples - which I see every day - is the so called "Singing Bird" in Enniscorthy. http://countywexford.blogspot.ie/2009_07_01_archive.html Better known as the "Beak with the Leak", even the late artist Conor Fallon was dissatisfied with the way that his work ended up displayed. Despite endless talk by the town council about removing the sculpture it remains in situ and with the council itself about to be removed, there it will stay.
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Judgement Day wrote: »Taxpayer funded public art is one of my pet hates and one of the worst examples - which I see every day - is the so called "Singing Bird" in Enniscorthy. http://countywexford.blogspot.ie/2009_07_01_archive.html Better known as the "Beak with the Leak", even the late artist Conor Fallon was dissatisfied with the way that his work ended up displayed. Despite endless talk by the town council about removing the sculpture it remains in situ and with the council itself about to be removed, there it will stay.
Love the lines and energy in that one.Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.
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AFAIK it was a collaborative effort so there were two artists responsible for the work, it's called perpetual motion btw. You can see some of her other stuff here http://www.racheljoynt.com/public-art/AFAIK the giant ball with road markings outside Naas cost somewhere in the region of €120,000. The artist got the price of a house and is now living as far away from it as possible and laughing at us.
I'm not a huge fan of it myself, but I knew the artists father and he was a sculptor himself, I spent some time up at his studios when I was younger and he handed me a chisel and a hammer and told me to blast away with it
don't think I would have made a great sculptor but he was a really nice fella. (it was a trip down memory lane reading this thread) 0 -
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Aglomerado wrote: »He used to be in the Market. More often than not crowned with traffic cones and once someone put a Nappy on him! :-D
I LOL'd a lot the hot summer when someone put bikinis on these three
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_BlackrockDolmen1871s.jpg0 -
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Lyra Fangs wrote: »Same as the bears at the o2, only armed with a bucket and spade. Still absolutely hideous.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70226735
Also this hideous thing outside UL http://www2.ul.ie/pp/graphics/mainentrance_41.jpg.
In all my years there I never understood its purpose or what the point of it was :S
Edit: Just looked it up and it's mean to reflect "the light and air from the seasons and the passing of time". I'm sorry but how exactly does it do that??
Well if you think about it long enough you experience the passing of time 0 -
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