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30-06-2009, 09:17 AM
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2505110/Bottoms-up-for-winning-artist.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
A CHEEKY artist has been given a £20,000 grant by the National Lottery - to look at girls bums.
The funding was awarded to Sue William, from south Wales, to explore cultural attitudes towards "female buttocks."
The artist, who is based in Swansea, is creating plaster cast moulds of women's behinds to try and understand the cultural meaning of the bottom "in contemporary culture."
She is also looking at different attitudes towards "racial fetishism" of bums in Africa and Europe.
And Williams has said her project will be a serious look at how bottoms are viewed.
She said: "The project is taking on the issues around the bottom and how it is viewed in contemporary culture and viewed by the male."
Surprised MPs have said lottery players may be surprised art the decision.
Lib Dem MP said: "No doubt there are some people who consider this a good cause, but the majority of people buying lottery tickets are bound to question this."
Emma Geliot, from the Arts Council of Wales - who awarded the grant, said: "The buttock-casting always produces a tee hee response and trying to get a decision-making panel to get past that point was difficult but there is a serious point to make here."
"What we are trying to do is trust the artist to know what they need to do to develop their ideas."
A CHEEKY artist has been given a £20,000 grant by the National Lottery - to look at girls bums.
The funding was awarded to Sue William, from south Wales, to explore cultural attitudes towards "female buttocks."
The artist, who is based in Swansea, is creating plaster cast moulds of women's behinds to try and understand the cultural meaning of the bottom "in contemporary culture."
She is also looking at different attitudes towards "racial fetishism" of bums in Africa and Europe.
And Williams has said her project will be a serious look at how bottoms are viewed.
She said: "The project is taking on the issues around the bottom and how it is viewed in contemporary culture and viewed by the male."
Surprised MPs have said lottery players may be surprised art the decision.
Lib Dem MP said: "No doubt there are some people who consider this a good cause, but the majority of people buying lottery tickets are bound to question this."
Emma Geliot, from the Arts Council of Wales - who awarded the grant, said: "The buttock-casting always produces a tee hee response and trying to get a decision-making panel to get past that point was difficult but there is a serious point to make here."
"What we are trying to do is trust the artist to know what they need to do to develop their ideas."