John MacDonald stumbled across this impromptu exhibition at Bridge Place near the Falshaw Bridge last week.
Twenty-six black-and-white photocopies – anonymous or indistinctly signed – have been pasted onto the newly rebuilt wall: ‘a mix of comic-book style and a few local scenes’.
‘It’s certainly different,’ says MacDonald, ‘but what caught my eye was a small A4 size print of the 'man on a loo' first spotted earlier this month in Rodney Street Tunnel’ (Breaking news, 2.7.13).
In this version (above), he appears on the original bench he occupied before being rudely cut and pasted using a graphics package to appear perched on porcelain.
It’s not clear if the display is the work of one or more artists. The offerings on show are of varying styles and variable quality.
But that’s not the point. Their value lies as much in the fact that ‘someone has imagination and actually likes doing this for other people to react to and enjoy rather than for money’.
