Summary
Has Gloucester City Council gone collectively barking mad? How can anyone who is in control of their faculties be willing to fork out 170 grand of taxpayers' money on something that looks like a giant toast rack, standing on its end? Designed by artist Tom Price, to honour St Kyneburgh - a Saxon princess who was killed by being thrown down a well in the city - the sculpture is supposed to represent the well shaft and looking through it from beneath is intended to give the impression of her "ascension to heaven".
The drawings of it give me the impression that someone's been on the Magic Woodbines. This city has a poor trac k record when it comes to street art, it has to be said. The likeness of Roman Emperor Nerva, in Southgate Street, is superb and something to be proud of. But as for the strange-looking lump of stone on The Cross and the embarrassing aircraft worker in Northgate Street - well, I rest my case. Back in the 1960s, a sculpture called Family Group was placed outside a block of flats in Westgate Street.See the full content of this document
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Pricey Toast Rack Sculpture Is Madness
It actually looked like some sort of failed scientific experiment resulting ...
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