First Celeste Art Prize

The Brits seem determined to promote Anti Art. The new Celeste Art Prize is a case in point. The only difference from other UK awards for tripe is that those artists who reach the Celeste finals are allowed to vote for the winners amongst themselves. Natasha Kidd won the Professional Artist category (£10,000) for a load of copper tubing and emulsion paint: "Overflow". She missed her true vocation: she should have been a plumber. Shaan Syed won the Student section (£5,000) for a very old-fashioned "modern art" painting that might have been a Hockney on one of his better days. For God's sake! What a load of twaddle! 2000 people visited the week-long exhibition at The Well, Old Truman Brewery, London. 2000! Presumably these were the relatives of the 60 finalists. How many hundreds of thousands have viewed the Michelangelo drawings exhibition? A true artist is a real crowd-puller. I rest my case.