southendroger wrote on Jul 12^th, 2010 at 2:01pm:


Another load of instantly forgettable rubbish!
p.s. I`ve got an unmade bed and a pile of old tyres you can have.

southendroger wrote on Jul 12^th, 2010 at 2:01pm:


I'm speechless at how utterly dreadful that is.

O thanks Nigel its all clear except the snooker triangle around her neck and the micky mouse ears.

O thank nigel i see the light now the Constable in the bin.  I will look forward to the excitment of Artside
I shall tingle at the thought of an artist sending a postcard to waterstones everyday.  Revel in the photos of a man who walked from london and dropped piles of sand on the ground and photgraphed them.OO and dont forget the 50 pink stripeswith lost items on the end. Plus many other attractions. Including i belive a man running along sea edge shouting and yelling which is being broadcast through two speakers. See how lucky we are in Southend.Eat your heart out Adventure Island.

The resort town image is tacky, I can't connect to it and feel that there is a big gulf between how I see my surroundings and how the older generation see them. I don't want to live in a place that celebrates quaint knick-kanck shops and keeps harping on about 'the good old days'. Anything that can be done to make this town great and elevate it above its worthless rivals is fine in my book. And I don't see where all the hostility comes from.
People are still such Philistines when it comes to art. Unless it's a postcard image of an anchor in Leigh, you don't want to know about it.
People are trying to help this town, to save it from itself and the kind of decay it has sunken into thanks to narrow-minded nostalgists who would rather glare at young people from behind their net curtains than try to engender in them a sense of civic pride and responsibility.
I'm not naming any names, and I'm not attacking anyone in this topic specifically. But, Jesus Christ, give it a chance. People don't have to share your view of Southend.

quincy wrote on Jul 15^th, 2010 at 7:07am:


My comments were based on the fact that I just find the image dull and weird. If Southend is a place for wearing Mickey Mouse gimp masks, then yes, it's great. I'm no art lover or critique, and maybe 99% of the population have more artistic interpretation than I do - but somehow I'd think I'm more middle of the road - so it won't just be me who thinks that image completely inappropriate.

By stating that Southend has rivals, you must have categorised it somehow. Who do you peg it against? Resort towns? New towns? County towns?

With Adventure Island in the background, it's certainly not shedding the resort image completely, is it?

JW wrote on Jul 15^th, 2010 at 10:06am:


Heh! So a little investigation reveals that my gimp comment is 100% spot on.

The artist's homepage: http://www.hayleylock.com/

So the main 'gimp' feature is actually to suit the artist's theme - and the backdrop of the usual resort imagery is no different to anything that has gone before.