Camden Arts Centre

In the Mail on Sunday (18 Jan) there is an article about Francis
Upritchard, a student at Camden Arts Centre, who uses real fur. She
boasts openly about how she cut up the family pet, a ginger tom, to turn it
into an exhibit. In an interview with an arts website in New Zealand, she
says "My brother Robert got given $20 to dispose of the cat. So he got some
thinly sliced ham from the fridge and gave it to the cat and when he was
bending down eating it....he hit him on the back of the head with a shovel.
Then he rang me up straight away at art school and brought it to college in
a rubbish bag. It was a fat cat and its body was really hot. I had to put
it in the freezer and make it more dead". She then relayed in vivid detail
the processes of skinning a dead cat. "I cut it down the belly and then
turned it all inside out. The hardest bits are around the eyes and things."

PETA has reacted with horror about this.

In a statement, Camden Arts Centre director Jenni Lomax said "Francis
Upritchard is working at the centre as part of a scheme to support artiststs
and and give the public access to their creative process. Recycling is a
large part of her work. Recently her work has included creatures made from
old fur coats discarded in charity shops, which are parodies of Victorian
hunting trophies. We are delighted she is part of our programme. I hope
people will visit the centre and see her work for themselves".

Ms Upritchard also says "I used to be a vegetarian for a long time but now
that I eat meat, I eat the whole thing including the offal, because I think
it's wrong to be wasteful. The taxidermist I work with took me through all
the ethics and the snake I am stuffing at the moment".

Please give Camden Arts Centre a call on 0207 472 5500 or e-mail them on
info.DeleteThis@camdenartscentre.org to register your disgust.


Thanks,

Ray

Ray wrote:
> In the Mail on Sunday (18 Jan) there is an article about Francis
> Upritchard, a student at Camden Arts Centre, who uses real fur. She
> boasts openly about how she cut up the family pet, a ginger tom, to
> turn it into an exhibit. In an interview with an arts website in New
> Zealand, she says "My brother Robert got given $20 to dispose of the
> cat. So he got some thinly sliced ham from the fridge and gave it to
> the cat and when he was bending down eating it....he hit him on the
> back of the head with a shovel. Then he rang me up straight away at
> art school and brought it to college in a rubbish bag. It was a fat
> cat and its body was really hot. I had to put it in the freezer and
> make it more dead". She then relayed in vivid detail the processes
> of skinning a dead cat. "I cut it down the belly and then turned it
> all inside out. The hardest bits are around the eyes and things."
>
> PETA has reacted with horror about this.
>
> In a statement, Camden Arts Centre director Jenni Lomax said "Francis
> Upritchard is working at the centre as part of a scheme to support
> artiststs and and give the public access to their creative process.
> Recycling is a large part of her work. Recently her work has
> included creatures made from old fur coats discarded in charity
> shops, which are parodies of Victorian hunting trophies. We are
> delighted she is part of our programme. I hope people will visit the
> centre and see her work for themselves".
>
> Ms Upritchard also says "I used to be a vegetarian for a long time
> but now that I eat meat, I eat the whole thing including the offal,
> because I think it's wrong to be wasteful. The taxidermist I work
> with took me through all the ethics and the snake I am stuffing at
> the moment".
>
> Please give Camden
Is this your frist expereacne with the sick preversion that is called "art"
as of late? I have been yelling about this type of thing for years. I'm
certain you have payed zero atention untill now. Were you there when it was
human bodyes being defiled as art?

a call on 0207 472 5500 or e-mail them
> on info RemoveThis @camdenartscentre.org to register your disgust.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray

Is this your first experience with the sick perversion that is called "art"
as of late? I have been yelling about this type of thing for years. I'm
certain you have paid zero attention until now. Were you there when it was
human bodies being defiled as art? Well welcome to the reality of modern
publicly financed art. May I suggest that you contact the government
agencies that feed this supposed "art" center. I would help you but as an
American my voice is useless in England