Timely use for FT cuttings, in the cause of art and vanity October 12, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : National newspapers , trackbackFinanciers have been commissioning nude portraits of their wives made from collages of newspaper clippings telling the stories of their own financial conquests.
Story ingredients: newspaper cuttings, banking crisis, artist, £15,000, recycling — and vanity. This comes from an entertaining story in today’s Sunday Times about new uses for old copies of the Financial Times. Topically, one portrait’s subject is the wife of Iceland’s president. She declares:
I have yet to meet someone who does not want a naked picture of their loved ones with text about themselves.
There must be some out there, somewhere.
And finally:
David Yarrow, founder of Clareville Capital, a hedge fund, commissioned a naked portrait of himself to hang in his weekend cottage in Devon.
He said: “What good use of the newspapers. She put the FT cuttings about me in some very naughty parts. It makes a good present for people but maybe they will never want to read the FT again. I am glad to see the price of her work is going up. I might have to flog mine. I might need to.”
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