Artist given 500,000 pounds to tow rock
September 22nd, 2011 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANSLondon, Sep 22 (IANS) An artist has been given 500,000 pounds to tow six tonnes of rock around Britain.
Artist Alex Hartley cut the 124 feet long chunk from a rock that left exposed by a retreating Norwegian glacier in the Arctic Circle, The Sun reported.
It is being brought to Aberdeen, where it will become “Nowhere Island”.
There has been criticism for the project that was supposed to highlight global warming.
Alex said it was “an awful lot of money”.
“In austere times like this, could half a million pounds not be spent on something better?,” Dorset South MP Richard Drax was quoted as saying.
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