Wexford Council wants "something more traditional"

@johnfp wrote:

..stick up a statue of Tony Doran beaitng the arse off a scoury heifer with his hurl, and get Leo Yellow to sponsor it??????? …just about sum up Wexford for me, and I`ll bet it would get approval no bother !

Johnfp there is a bigger story in that please do tell !

I guess though, that something ‘Traditional’ will be erected by those Wexford Councillors and have no relevance in a few months time. What qualifications do politicians in Ireland need, is it like over here where “It’s not who you know or what you know, but what you know about who you know !”

I have done some searches on Wexford and the Arts, it seems they are quite forward thinking yet sprinkled with a good measure of the obvious and twee. It also seems they have a reputation for rejecting public art, there seems to be quite an interesting sculpture rejected by the elders of New Ross town.

Hi,
Being from Wexford myself I was interested to read the comments on this thread.

I was a bit sceptical at first about the design but after careful perusal of the artist’s website I have to say that it’s beginning to grow on me. I like the way it works in that large open space.
I always thought that the expanse of that new area of the quays was too large. The old narrow quay meant that the town was closely linked to the sea. You had to walk around the fish boxes as the boats unloaded their catches, and how exciting it was to be sandwiched between the fishing boats and the railway line as a train thundered by,
The quays are a bit clinical now and I think that this design will help get rid of that feeling. I don’t think a standalone piece of art would work as well as this design, which is spread out across the quays.

I think you might really have to visit the location to get a feel for it. I might drop down to have a look over Christmas, (and put in a call of support to the Borough Council).

It certainly has provoked debate and if it does go ahead I’m sure the local media will have a field day, exactly what art should be all about.

By the way has anyone seen the ‘Tree of Life’ by Denis O’ Connor. It’s also part of the ‘Per cent for Arts’ scheme, on th new alignment for the N30 between New Ross and Enniscorthy, I couldn’t find a photo to post but I have to say it’s one of my favourite pieces of roadside art.

http://www.wexford.ie/wex/Departments/Arts/PressRelease/ArchivePublicArt/Name,4356,en.html

“inaccurate view of some skirmish that was really a good excuse for hanging protestants, that would be 1798 “

Riiiiiiiight. That’s why it was the rebellion was led by Presbyterians. Because it was about hanging Protestants.

It was in the vein of the American Revolution, rebelling against an established church and interference from the king of another country in local affairs.

Another ridiculously ignorant “Catholic vs Protestant” view of Irish history.

No news from Wexford, officially, no future.
Nevertheless, the project goes on and takes a new form: a three minutes video movie, “The Monument of Wexford”, describes the situation of the installation. The resulting Monument is the transformation of the canceled site specific sculpture “The Drainage”. This evolution considers the Wexford Borough Council, and his surprising cancellation as an additional local constraint, an actor in the installation revealing “The Monument of Wexford”
http://dessardo.free.fr/site/html/wexford_drainage_mov01.html
http://dessardo.free.fr/site/html/wexford_drainage_text.html