The following is an extract from the BBC website:-
"''Shed boat' artist takes Turner
- Simon Starling, the artist whose work includes turning a shed into a working boat and then back into a shed, has won the £25,000 Turner Prize....He found his shed - a wooden shack - in the Swiss town of Schweizerhalle. After turning it into a boat, he paddled it seven miles down the Rhine to Basel, where he rebuilt it....."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4492650.stm
Now, who says us Limeys don't have a sense of humour....$40,000 prize money! But then again, may be this guy is onto something. It could be a new class for the future - the big question is, would they be called outboards or outhouses!!!!
Corin
PS - apologies to any 'real' artists out there....
"''Shed boat' artist takes Turner
- Simon Starling, the artist whose work includes turning a shed into a working boat and then back into a shed, has won the £25,000 Turner Prize....He found his shed - a wooden shack - in the Swiss town of Schweizerhalle. After turning it into a boat, he paddled it seven miles down the Rhine to Basel, where he rebuilt it....."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4492650.stm
Now, who says us Limeys don't have a sense of humour....$40,000 prize money! But then again, may be this guy is onto something. It could be a new class for the future - the big question is, would they be called outboards or outhouses!!!!
Corin
PS - apologies to any 'real' artists out there....
Comment