{"id":178803,"date":"2025-12-11T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178803\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:16:09","slug":"artists-giant-germs-take-over-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178803\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist&#8217;s giant germs take over Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A set of giant figures inspired by a disabled artist&#8217;s childhood and memories of the Lancashire seaside have sprung up across a resort. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The larger-than-life exhibition is the work of acclaimed artist Jason Wilsher-Mills MBE, who said the sculptures explore his childhood when he was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, triggered by contracting chickenpox at 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They include colourful inflatable germs, a giant figure lying in a hospital bed watching TV surrounded by oversized plastic toy soldiers as well as Blackpool Rock, a 10ft (3m) sculpture outside the gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wakefield-born artist said the exhibition is &#8220;about mixing together my memories of hospital&#8221; and the Lancashire seaside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A set of giant figures inspired by a disabled artist&#8217;s childhood and memories of the Lancashire seaside have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-178803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}