Public consultation on Hepworth replacement for Dulwich Park

[barniepage]

bawdy-nan Wrote:

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> What about a campaign for a performance space /

> bandstand?

You could try, though I doubt the council have the budget or the will. Ryan Gander offered them one and they rejected it in favour of this.

[Applespider]

barniepage, I appreciate that as you work with Ryan, you must be really disappointed that his idea didn't win. But that doesn't mean that if the local community would like a theatre space, they can't try for one.

I liked the idea of a shared theatre space - although that particular grassy circle is already used for theatre reasonably successfully - but struggled to see it as artwork. That may because I don't tend to associate landscaping with art per se - but also because there was no real sense of it except from above and few of us would have really been able to appreciate it. I had however considered which side of the plane you'd need to be on to try to spot it!

I do quite like the idea of a series of sculptures and I hadn't appreciated that they'd be large and tactile enough that you could climb/sit and interact with them. That puts a new complexion on them.

[El Pibe]

What bawdy-nan said.

Love or hate any art it'll brighten up your hum-drum existence even if it just gives you something to grumble about.

There is of course no right answer artwise, one man's pipe isn't necessarily another man's pipe.