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Article: ART: Police ruin sculpture in 'dead body' probe.
- Article from:
- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2006
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WHEN police were called to reports of a dead body in a city cemetery, officers prepared themselves for another gruesome find.
But, as the bumbling bobbies cautiously approached the "body", they failed to spot it was a sculpture put up as part of Peterborough Artists' Open Studios festival.
Ann Bellamy (44) had spent a week lovingly crafting the sculpture of a figure to represent the men who spend their days sitting in parks and cemeteries in the city centre, as part of the Green House Effect exhibition of the art extravaganza.
Made up of recyclable materials - cardboard, plastic film and chicken wire - the reclining figure took pride of place as ...