10 brutally honest British seaside artworks
 

10 brutally honest British seaside artworks
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LONDON — Love it or hate it, the British seaside is a very unique kind of place.

Decades after the public started jumping on budget airlines to the sun, abandoning their home-grown resorts in the process, numerous places along the coast have been left looking a bit... sad.

Designer Jack Hurley has created a range of very honest posters depicting life in some of these coastal spots and just launched a website to showcase his work.

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Under slate grey skies, the likes of Blackpool and Bournemouth are shown in all their faded glory. From Redcar in **rth Yorkshire to Teignmouth in Devon, meanwhile, life is shown as a ****** of almost Hogarthian vignettes, full of drunkards and dead whales, graffitied pavements and boarded-up shops. Read more...

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