"The painted sign on the pier wall restored by Hamlyn originally served as a notice for the twice-daily concerts in the pier pavillion. First painted in the 1890s, it has faded to little more than a ghostly shadow. In repainting only the top half of the simple block letters, and by so doing avoiding a simple anouncement of the concerts, the work assumes an evocative resonance beyond that normally permitted by the declaritive function of such a sign. Hamlyn's aim in activating a state of multiple-coding within his work - the movement of floating signifiers - puts in jeopardy the notion of a sign which deploys a single, defining statement and allows a simultaneous display of the past and present to become diffused with the poetic associations of the coming ang going of the tide and the amusements (concerts or concepts) that people seek when at the seaside on holiday."

Andrew Wilson, (from the catalogue).

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