Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Having read Sarah Lang's piece in the DE this morning about Dover Pride's campaign to brighten up our empty shops (an LRCF initiative from about 2 years ago by the way but everyone seems to ignore that) I thought I might stroll down to Bench Street for a look.
Certainly the unboarded windows are a vast improvement.
I know it's early days but what about the exhibits?
No, there's nothing wrong with the photograph, that's how the pictures look. It seems that out of focus pictures are a new art form.
Unbelievable!
Terry
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Good report there Terry. Yes I agree with you the place shows a huge improvement. Is this a Dover Pride result then..at last. Well its good to see some constructive advancement from them as it should please many people. Lets face it, thats a pretty dreadful street for cruise passengers to enter Dover through so this kind of improvement is very welcome.
Ah...ART. Art for Artsake! who knows anymore what good art is. We have long since moved on from the Haywain and even those once modern and glorious water lillies. By the way one of those original Water Lilly pictures ( by Monet) of course would fill the entire wall here...although some are smaller.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Ah Constable wonderful artist and he painted in so many areas of where i once lived .Oh happy days.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Maybe it's sponsored by Specsavers?!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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how about getting tracey emin down here to do one of her specials?
Ross Miller
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The other pictures taht were there the week it opened were more interesting
I am thinking about getting some of my work printed up in large format and seeing if I can display it there
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Why not Ross ? You are a local talent.
Waaty
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What's being done to place compulsory purchase orders on the prominent and desolate chipboard/dereliction jungles (aka civic vandalism) foisted on the town centres of Dover and Deal by negligent/absent property owners?
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Agree looks better without the boards but when they said art was thinking more along the lines of paintings.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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That is a very narrow definition of art.
Surely it encompasses paintings, sculpture (of all sizes and mediums), photography, drawings, collage, video/film, performance and much much more.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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I offer these two pictures. Which do you prefer?
Terry
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Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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Excellent start to brightening the town up - well done to all those who made this happen
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Brian Dixon
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now thats art.beats them photos in bench street.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i recognise the lady in the middle, lives near me.
she does excellent face painting at local events.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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i reconise the one with the red top.its jeanette from lrcf.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i thought it was jeannette too at first brian.
every time i have seen her she has a stunning smile, not in the pic though.
i just assumed that it was someone that looked similar.
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Is it wallpaper ?? I saw that on a roll in B & Q last week.
Roger
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Yes of course Ross is right, art covers a whole range of things. I always remember that good story about John Ford who produced some of the finest art in moving pictures but didnt really know he was doing it at the time. at the time he was just making movies...
When asked in those days by an impressed journalist... if he knew he was a great artist. John Ford said
"Dont give me any of this manure about art!"
But of course art it was.
While the picture above is certainly more engaging than the original 'orrible wood Im not sure it could be described as art. Maybe its an artwork or a piece of artwork..or..
Note for Jeannette: Remember you asked me to send your password as you had lost it. Have done twice since that get together in de pub, but havent heard anything. Not sure if you got the emails.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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Really Roger, wallpaper indeed! Here's a picture with the effervescent Jeanette smiling together with other members of the LRCF and the White Cliffs Creative Guild. This was our first collaboration. Onwards and upwards.
I was chatting to Peter Drew yesterday and he suggested that a theme for future murals could be the characters (kings and other notables) who have passed along the High Street and London Road. Any other ideas?
The premises ulitmately will be a bistro/coffeee shop. Until then it's better that plain stirling board.
I'll give Madam Chairman a nudge Paul. I must admit I have forgotten my password, I'm just glad that the computer remembers it!
Terry
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