Mutton Dressed As Art?
A £2,000 arts project aims to create poetry using words spay-painted on the backs of woolly Northumbrian sheep. No really, we're not making it up.
Posted: 5 December 2002
by Jon
Ever wished you could spray-paint words on sheeps' backs then sit
around watching them move around to create, erm, ovine
poetry?
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Art or just a load of sheep's
arse?
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Well, sadly you can't - unless of course you're an arty sheep farmer
- but a new project dubbed 'Quantum Sheep' is paying artist Valerie
Laws £2000 to do just that. Laws, a physicist and poet will be
spraying words from poems onto around 15 sheep during January and
February next year then seeing if the sheep create 'new poetry' as
they move around.
It's not just poetry though, Laws says she is 'exploring quantum
mechanics, arts, poetry and sheep'.
The venue for the whacky stunt, sorry, innovative art event, is
the Whitehouse Farm Centre, in Morpeth, Northumberland. The farm was
badly hit by foot and mouth and owner Donald Slater apparently hopes
that the project will help to drum up interest in the centre.
The project is being financed by Northern
Arts who presumably had trouble finding monkeys to furnish with
typewriters oop north.
As an act of tribute, we are now actively looking for a highly
literate sheep to edit this site...
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