City Needs Art Attack

24th Nov 2011

C’mere were you ever away on the holidays and you saw a ‘mad ting’ and thought ‘we should do that in Cork lah’.

There’s a lot of gammy run down mank around town that could do with a scrub down, a coat of paint or in some cases, an aesthetically conscious suicide bomber.

Jesus

Merchant’s Quay shopping centre for all its late eighties red brick kitsch is not the worst thing about this particular stretch of de banks. Two derelict structures on the quay that once facilitated, well let’s be honest, mainly winos wee, lie helplessly dormant in a vortex of inertia. They look manky.

Christ

The drabness of the quay is compounded by the lack of sunlight as its generally north facing and shadowed by the shopping centre.  

Unfortunately this is where many visitors to Cork first roll up, especially those who arrive by Bus Éireann or Aircoach. Would it not be the job if some of the arty people in the city, (you know the type – a tidy grant from the council, sandals, sound, fond of the schlippidy schnizel and the dogs satchel with a paint brush) had a go off these shambolic structures with their paint pots?

Almighty

Can we not ask them to put down the grant applications for a minute and do some colouring on these mank-o-dwellings? Even for the smallies…t'would brighten up the gaff and it'd be some laugh.

Ah sure isn' t that loveleee: A ting we saw out foreign recently. (Update: artist Morganic ( futurequad@gmail.com) who did this piece has been in touch.

Let us know what you think.