Newsbot Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Artist and film-maker Krista Magee defends her gull design that will form part of the proposed North Quay installation. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6923849.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sausages Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I hate seagulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbones Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Me too, especially the ones nesting on my neighbours chimlee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Well she's not exactly going to say I'm robbing you blind for this shitty piece of plastic is she? It's like money for old rope. Hmmmmmmmmm *heads down to town hall with piece of old rope* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 £30,000?!! Paint me white and I'll stand there and pretend to be a seagull for £30,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 £30,000?!! Paint me white and I'll stand there and pretend to be a seagull for £30,000 Deal... Report for duty at 8pm tonight - I'll tell the local kids - can't wait to see that on YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 To add a touch of realism, is the artist prepared to site the gull standing in, and eating from, a pool of vomit and discarded chips? I'll have £30 for that if it's used please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Not forgetting that the gull will have to have some kind of mechanical innards that makes it shit on anyone that walks past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Ahhh well known local artist Krista Magee, the last time I saw Krista she was involved in another hair brained money making scheme, MAPA (Manx Academy of Performing arts), I'm sure it worked to, I for one was stupid enough to shell out for all the crap the performing children needed to go to the useless meetings. If Bryan Kneale was to make a Gull for Douglas it might hold some credibility but even a simple Google search shows Krista calls herself an artist yet wasn't able to show any of her 'art' (with the exception of the gull ofc) Good luck to her though, shes a generally nice person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieK Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I love it when artists commissioned to produce public art defend their work after it's criticised, despite the simple fact that they've failed if the public hate what they've produced. There is a current fashion amongst local councillors to believe that public art miraculously improves and regenerates the area it's in, hence Magee's statement that nobody asks about the benefits public art offers society. What these benefits are, and where there are examples of it, remains a mystery. For myself I think the idea of a massive sculpture of a seagull is a bit lame and generally uninspired: it seems to say that the main identifying aspect of the promenade and Douglas as a whole is the large quantity of seagulls we have, or that the seagull is somehow special amongst the features of Douglas. Even as a purely decorative feature of the prom it leaves a lot to be desired - we already have plenty of real seagulls to look at if we're that enamoured with them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Take Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Have just looked at the artists' impression of what it will look like - the wing'll have someone (very tall)s eye out, mark my words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digga Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 What these benefits are, and where there are examples of it, remains a mystery. there is a bit over bridge from lipton's carpark at the museum steps the benefits as yet are still a misery mystery to me i also believe there are other fine examples at the viller's park area near where skanky chavs and and 8oarders hand out..... Miss Take Posted Today, 04:20 PM Have just looked at the artists' impression of what it will look like - the wing'll have someone (very tall)s eye out, mark my words. linkage of a picture to share with the rest of use would be nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I love it when artists commissioned to produce public(1)art defend their work after it's criticised, despite the simple fact that they've failed if the public(2) hate what they've produced. ..although I suspect public(1) and public(2) do not refer to precisely the same group of people. It seems that most public art usually gets a slagging off for a period of time, and then gains acceptance and possibly even affection. e.g. Angel of the North as an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieK Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 Aye, but the Angel of the North at least looks like it's had some thought put into it, so an argument can be made that it has some kind of merit (although even this iconic piece of sculpture fails to answer the question regarding social benefits - The Angel of the North has been up for nine years now and Gateshead, and the north east in general, is still as crap as it ever was!). In this instance, however, we're dealing with a seagull. A big placcy seagull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emma Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 i can't believe that its a seagull, why not just put a giant r.a.t up, afterall seagulls are just vermon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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