Getting To Grips With Art

Sense & Sensuality, now at the Royal College of Art, London is the first in a planned annual art competition and exhibition open equally to sighted and unsighted artists and launched by the new charity BlindArt. Latex and cotton gloves are supplied, so visitors can touch the exhibits: one piece, The Laughing Record, will chuckle in response. Anyone fondling Pinky and Perky sight unseen, however, is likely to leap back in shock. The piece has two startlingly realistic latex pigs heads, flaunted as breasts by an antique tailor's dummy - the artist has offered to model them herself for special occasions. For the full story - click the title Irish Art