Are you proposing adultery Mrsfry? 😯

I hope she has a lovely year and makes some interesting and insightful work because of it.

But then I did go to Art College…

did you miss the most artistic part where she heroically offered to donate the £15k grant in return for being able to take a paid leave of absence from her day job (£25k+)?

Spend it on

Not enough money spent on either.

Spend it on
chips?

PHEW!! Thought for a moment there you were leaving me.
It took you so long to hack my cctv after all…..

I still reckon it’s an interesting and clever art project on how easy it is to wind some people up.

A bit like STW 😉

It’s incredibly difficult to get money out of the government for art and not something you undertake frivolously or lightly, in my experience at least.

It’s easy to joke about when you get a clickbait friendly title and limited information on the project but most people would get 30 seconds into the application form and realise it’s not free money, and most likely beyond them.

I’ve been working in the sciences for too long, where millions at a time are given in grants to seemingly pointless projects, so £15,000 here seems like nothing. Good luck to her, although as a weegie myself I’m not sure there’s much to learn by staying within Glasgow.

As a lapsed Weegie Soap Dodger myself I can’t actually imagine that it doesn’t offer all that you need, it has all the conveniences of any modern western city as well as a substantial contribution to Art and Culture. IMO it would be better for her to go live somewhere like Oban or Aberystwyth* where modern conveniences are not so easy to come by and “staying with the confines of the town limits” would be much more, well, limiting. Shirley that is going to do more to investigate a

.

*Neverbeen – could be great, could be a shytehole.

This is true. I worked in arts organisations for six years and it’s not quite as simple as to con the government into throwing money into art.

That said, my own project entitled N+1, a living study could well do with some funding in order to be realized. Naturally, my exhibits will need a patina of mud and trail dust in order to look as authentic as possible.

I think she’s already suffered from the Dundee Effect as she certainly looks like a native in those pictures.

Poorly communicated, although her marketing is spot on. Chip’s are a low blow, but whole communities that would never have heard of it without that image now know. I don’t think commenting on her appearance is neccessary. She once used a conference bike to engage with the youth and politicians. I suggested that to loads of people when I had mine but no one ever “got it”

Anyway, It’s totally wound up the arts community up here and they are all worried it might jepordise their own funding in future. It will be fine.

I love it. The funding that these people obtain eventually ends up transformed into bicycles by me.

Just shoot the poor woman and get it over with!