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Faeces or Flair: Chichester Sculpture Garners Mixed Reviews.
HASTA, the history of art magazine affiliated with the University of St Andrews School of Art History.
Mark and Rebecca Ford, Periwinkle Shelter, 2024, Chichester.
Likewise, the Periwinkle Shelter personifies the relationship between human and habitat through medium and design.
This involved the sole use of natural materials or of sculpting the earth itself.
In a sense, the landscape becomes the artists paint and their hands the brush.
Temporality is suggested too; unlike manufactured costly material, here the artists use raw and mutable ingredients.
From glimpsing at your screen, what will it be for you?
Bibliography:Telegraph Reporters.
Snail Sculpture that Cost 6,000 Looks Like Poo Emoji, Locals Say.
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Nicholson, Savannah.
People Say New Chichester Sculpture Looks Like a Poo.
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Kintuka, Holly.
Locals Fume as Council Spend 6k on Huge Snail Sculpture Which Actually Looks Like a Poo.
But the publicity surrounding the sculpture is being embraced by residents who regard it as positive for the area.
As Rodin said all in nature is beautiful and all publicity is good!
The Sun commenting on art is like Gardeners World commenting on Crypto Currency.
Art is decisive and should evoke emotive response of some kind.
Medmerry was created as a response to the threat of climate change to our low-lying coast.
I have no doubt that the Medmerry Periwinkle will become a treasured local landmark, she said.
The Sun described the artwork, which cost 6000, as a waste of taxpayers money.
Woven from Sussex willow by environmental artists Rebecca and Mark Ford, of Two Circles Design.
Leaflets describing the art installations and a map are available at the RSPB Pagham Visitor Centre.
