Loved the Oscar Wilde sarcophagus / face made from cigarette smoke
And the Britten shell on the beach.
But that recent Wollstonecraft / emancipation statue really wasn’t very good.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 18:43,
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Her sculpture is particularly bad imo. Especially the Wilde one
But she is an oil painter so I'm not sure why she gets all these big sculptural commissions. It's like when Damien Hirst had a crack at figurative painting or Tracy Emin trying to draw. Terrible
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The idea is better than the execution, definitely.
But having the “spirit” of Wilde rising from the tomb, created by his fag seemed a good one - Until everyone kept nicking it, so it had to be removed. But I’m not sure you could sculpt a better face from “smoke” (I’d call it her motif rather than an affectation though)
And Hirst and Emin aren’t in the same league - they are just simply chancers that got insanely lucky, in my opinion. (Edited slightly)
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 31 Aug 2021, 20:46,
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