Shanking Publicity

Believe it or not, this pathetic display of twigs at Chelsea Parade Ground, next to Tate Britain, is supposedly a work of art! No, I'm not kidding you. It's the work of Clare Lewis, an undergraduate at Chelsea College of Arts and Design, and it's called Shanking 2008. (A shank is a knife.) Each of these 28 broken saplings represents a teenaged victim of knife crime in Ghetto London last year. I think it should be renamed "Self-publicity stunt". It's an insult to the youngsters who died.