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GRANNY’S HOUSE, A popular art installation that features at Electric Picnic, has been stolen.
The yellow and pink coloured house – with an old TV and framed photo of the Pope – has been a favorite of festival goers looking to escape from the madness.
The house features every year as part of Art Lot – a dedicated space at Electric Picnic that is curated by Dublin art collective The Glow Depot.
John Kenny from The Glow Depot told TheJournal.ie that Granny’s House “became a sanctuary for people escaping the madness of the festival”.
I think one person last year spent most of the weekend asleep in the armchair.
He explained that they discovered it was stolen last week when they went to pick it up.
It wouldn’t have a huge monetary value but a lot of effort went into it and whoever took it would have needed a trailer and a few people.
Kenny added that there would be no animosity towards anybody who returned the house.
There’s a good chance someone saw it and is using it as a garden shed, there would be no animosity towards that, in fact we would buy them a new garden shed.
“We’d have a laugh about it – we haven’t reported it to the gardaí or anything like that.”
People are being asked to get in touch with The Glow Depot on Facebook if there are any sightings of the house.
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“One person last year spent most of the weekend sleeping in the arm chair”
Well, what a waste of a festival.
@Barry O’Brien: ‘Selling’…..One person spent most of the weekend selling in the arm chair. Very productive weekend.
Jesus, the housing crisis is worse than I imagined lol.
@Ciaran Fairley: laughing so much right now, comment of the year man !
@Ciaran Fairley:
Granny moved it so she could sit in her own armchair
Pulitzer inbound :)
One way of helping the housing crisis.
She’s on hols
Seriously how pathetic can someone get to rob a granny’s house
Smacked out of it in the chair for the weekend
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