A Spunking cock painted onto the tarmac road using yellow spray paint in St Leonards. It highlights the underfunding of East Sussex council concerning the upkeep of our roads.

Result #1

The painting is a parody of the high life of the town and a critique of the metropolitan elite, who feel that they cannot live up to the responsibilities of public art. By removing the car from its painted spot and putting it back as a mural, Weems demonstrates that this private expression of individuality is not only valid in itself, but also an effective political tool.

Result #2

A Spunking cock painted onto the tarmac road using yellow spray paint in St Leonards. It highlights the underfunding of East Sussex council concerning the upkeep of our roads. The message is well-intentioned, but the work is just a visual embarrassment to the memory of the local residents who voted for the coalition of 50 to 40 to end all spending on road maintenance in England. It is time to drop this toxic idiotic legislation and to ensure that local councils have the power to protect the publics right to be free of unnecessary road maintenance. Without this legislation, roads would be left to the private profit sector. To the best of my knowledge, all the politicians in this country are ignorant of this appalling precedent. In the meantime, any one of the other artists involved in this tragicomic act is free to display the body part that best exemplifies the sad state of British art. The reality of the British public will be more serious in a few years time. Its time to show them.I do not mean to suggest that we should abandon the notion that the artist is an active agent of social change. On the contrary, it is the social responsibility of the artist that must be re-evaluated. Yet the artist must be accompanied by an explanation of why he or she feels compelled to confront the historical legacy of the social transformation that occurred under the governments that governed the country. As a culture we must accept the loss of our identity as a distinct society, one that has been replaced by an ever more intrusive and impersonal global culture. It is time to show the artists associations with the struggle of those who have been uprooted from their home country. Yet while we acknowledge the role of these artists in the reclamation of the English language, we do not wish to leave behind the traumatic experience that their work must have caused. They should be remembered as political dissidents whose words and actions are vital in awakening the collective conscience of the nation. They have contributed to the democratization of the English language, but their political voice is in the form of the work that they have made and continue to make, regardless of the politics.

Result #3

A Spunking cock painted onto the tarmac road using yellow spray paint in St Leonards. It highlights the underfunding of East Sussex council concerning the upkeep of our roads. They have ignored the consequences of their own reckless and immoral decisions for the development of a meaningless and often reckless and useless road system. The derelict road system will continue to be a 'traffic island in the countryside for years to come. The Council should act now to make sure that the road is maintained and that it is not abused for commercial gain.The exhibition is also superb in its coverage of the ongoing debate about a possible return to (or conversion from) the pre-industrial structures of the 60s. That debate, which has been going on for some time, is not an isolated instance, but one that is part of a larger debate which has developed in the past few years, as indicated by the large number of newspaper articles and letters published in the local press. The debate is one of the most interesting, if not the most important, of these events. It is also one of the most interesting, given the lack of a clear national direction. If the neo-avant-garde becomes a new national identity, as is now suggested by the arrival of neo-geo, it is due to the fact that there are many distinct nationalities within the European Union. The influence of neo-geo is especially strong in the UK, where it has had an enormous influence on the formation of the EU as a whole. This is evidenced by the fact that there are more neo-geo artists than ever before.The exhibition is also very impressive in its coverage of the ongoing debate about a possible return to (or conversion from) the pre-industrial structures of the 60s. This debate, which has been going on for some time, is not an isolated instance, but one that is part of a larger debate which has developed in the past few years, as indicated by the large number of newspaper articles and letters published in the local press. The debate is one of the most interesting, if not the most important, of these events.

Result #4

This work is certainly worthy of the £1,500-a-year taxpayers-assessment award. Yet its relevance is ultimately obvious only to those who decide to look at it. In fact, it seems, it will never be seen, as the winner of this prize will be revealed at a public ceremony in Cardiff next year.So that is how the winner of this prize will be announced. The public will be invited to a reception in August to hear the final results of the award ceremony, and to an evening of poetry readings in October to celebrate the occasion. Meanwhile, the proceeds from the sale of the Spunking Cock, at a sale in Wales, will go to the local councils Road Acquisition Fund for road safety. The winners of the prize will be announced in January.

Result #5

The lads, their small blunders, are a little too beautiful to have been painted by a teenager in a playground, but the paint is all right, and the figures are portrayed in a pretty and cheerful way, if slightly over-painted. To be fair, it is a tad too easy to call them sentimental, but the works are taken from one of the artist-novellas of the 70s, and there is a strong resemblance to Duchamps Oil Painting at the Circle of the Decade, 1912, a real treatise on the canvas.The ideas are not as strong as in one of his more recent works, but the movement has some character and their appeal is strong. Its a shame the idea has been abandoned for another project, but the project is a positive one, and we must hope the Tamesbury Gallery gets behind it. To have a local gallery to carry the ideas into fruition is a sign of community and in itself a positive thing. It is also an excellent opportunity to reflect on our own state of affairs.