Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Warning After Artist Sells Her Work - And Her Body
Council licensing officers served a written warning on a London art gallery
where an artist claimed to have sold her body along with her work while
members of the public paid to look on.
Canadian Angela Marshall, 25, alleged she had full sex while painting a
picture for her first customer.
The man, who gave his name as Mark Childs, said he was a buyer for a wealthy
collector who was too well-known to attend the session at Decima Studios,
Bermondsey, south London.
Miss Marshall's first three bookings had apparently been scared off by the
journalists ringing the studio, but Mr Childs opted to pay 50 for sex and
the picture.
Onlookers watched through a hole in the door as the couple cavorted naked
under a red light on a double mattress while Miss Marshall's assistant
Jessica Konopka, 20, from Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland, danced around them
smoking.
The pair were inside the studio for about an hour.
But shortly before they emerged a man who had earlier paid 5 to watch the
show arrived with a colleague from Southwark Council's licensing department
and served a written warning on curator Alex Chappel.
The council officers warned Mr Chappel that the property appeared to be
being used for sexual entertainment and he may have committed an offence.
They said that if the exhibition continued, the gallery would be risking
prosecution.
Mr Chappel said he had taken legal advice before staging the exhibition -
scheduled to run over the weekend - and understood that it was legal.
He told reporters: "If we can get it confirmed then we carry on with it."
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