Category Archives: worst public art

Form and Obsession

Posted on March 24, 2010 by AHC McDonald

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always … Continue reading →

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The love that dare not bark its name

Posted on March 23, 2010 by AHC McDonald

WAtching saw this in Willagee. Is it Michael Jackson again or is it closer to THIS? And I forgot to post this worst from Outrage.  See 1:32 in.

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Burnt Spoon

Posted on March 18, 2010 by AHC McDonald

Vegan can’t seem to take anything from this Gosnells shopping centre sculpture other than it represents a burnt spoon. As a tribute to hash and heroin roasters of the Gosnells area it works well. Wait is it a burnt sperm? … Continue reading →

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Fang-ed Hooves

Posted on March 17, 2010 by AHC McDonald

The Bass tard asks if it is time for this to go. Commuters have been passing it by for what at least a decade? Are they stil moved by the fight between good and evil? Is this now a worst? … Continue reading →

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Hands across the lawn

Posted on February 3, 2010 by AHC McDonald

In the crab infested burgh of Mandurah I saw this. I thought it would make a nice change from insinuating that every object longer than it is wide could be construed as a donger. Not this one fortunately. Not a … Continue reading →

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Weekend Worstoff 93

Posted on January 30, 2010 by AHC McDonald

“Shonquice”,  resident at Perth 6000 has a Nowegian friend who snapped this church in Karratha, one of the vilest towns in the country. Check out the lovely photo of derelict Perry Lakes on S’s blog too. David M sent in … Continue reading →

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San Simeon

Posted on January 29, 2010 by AHC McDonald

When Charles Foster Kane died, he said just one word -…Rosebud, just that one word, but who is she…What was it?… Now what does that mean?…A racehorse he bet on once…Yeah, that didn’t come in…All right, but what was the … Continue reading →

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Brock Mystery Deepens

Posted on December 7, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Some light may have been shone on the metal head recently featured, with this cryptic story in the Hills Gazette (or was it the Banjo Players & Albino News?). It does nail down the fact that it is Brocky not … Continue reading →

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Sticks

Posted on November 27, 2009 by AHC McDonald

Lukewarm reaction  to Bumpkin Highway sculpture yesterday, but how about this one in Forrest Place? This one is actually pretty crap. Inside the sticks though there was a machine you could blow giant smoke rings with. More interesting. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Upper Swan

Posted on November 24, 2009 by AHC McDonald

For every photo. There is an angle. I think they have laid the pathway deliberately so you get this scene just before seeing the belltower. As though your head was “upper swan” and then saw the light of Dicky’s Doodle.

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