Focus on this artwork and discuss the Spirit of Belfast Intervention.
In May 2012 a Belfast-based artist, Tonya McMullan, made an intervention to the Spirit of Belfast Sculpture.  At the time the sculpture had protective railings around it while an investigation of the structure was underway.  McMullan installed a temporary banner that read 'FAIL', the intervention was then photographed by Belfast-based photographer Jordan Hutchings.  The image was circulated online in an attempt for it to become an Internet meme.
Details about this intervention, which the artist considers to be an artwork in itself, are included in Bree T, Hocking's book, The Great Reimagining, Public Art, Urban Space and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland ISBN 978-1-78238-621-6 and in Dorothy Hunter's article "A Public City" published online in the International Sculpture Centre Re:Sculpt blog.
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