Artist Receives $30,000 Grant To Study Womens Butts

A London artist has been given a $33,000 (�20,000) National Lottery grant - to study womens butts.

Sue Williams was given the cash to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks", reports UK paper 'The Sun'.

She will create plaster cast moulds of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture.

The 53-year-old artist will also examine different racial attitudes towards bums in Europe and Africa.

"The project is taking on the issues around the bottom," she says.

"And how it is viewed in contemporary culture and by the male. For example, it is quite clear the bottom is sacrosanct to the African man and woman."

Emma Geliot of the Arts Council of Wales, which awarded the grant, says: "The buttock-casting always produces a tee-hee response and getting the decision-making panel to get past that was difficult, but there is a serious point here."

Now the question is, does she need an assistant? And where do we signup?

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