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A shed-load of success - The Herald
Home News Election 2005 Sport Business Politics Features Going Out LIVE UPDATES News Sport SERVICES Search the site Free daily email News to your PDA News archive Photo Sales Help & FAQs Contact us FAVOURITES Crosswords The Diary Local news Local weather Fantasy Football Week in photos Today's page 1 ADVERTISING Book ads online Homes Appointments Business Online Advert inquiries RELATED SITES Evening Times Sunday Herald Newsquest UK TravelShop A shed-load of success MOIRA JEFFREY October 18 2005 When is a shed not a shed? When it's a boat. Or, to put it another way, when Simon Starling, the Glasgow artist, gets his hands on it. In a simple, yet audacious, transformation, Starling's contribution to the 2005 Turner Prize exhibition, which opens today at Tate Britain, consists of a humble wooden boat shed that the artist spotted on the banks of the Rhine. He dismantled it, transformed it into a boat, then paddled it down the river to a Basel museum, where he subsequently returned it to its previous form. Whatever the final outcome, this year's Turner Prize is already a victory for Glasgow, with two Glasgow-trained artists, Starling and Jim Lambie, on a short-list that has been dominated traditionally - more available