It always worries me when a Glaswegian wins something like the Turner Art prize – after all Glasgow’s chief claim to fame is that it is the ‘Home of the Heartattack’. However Simon Starling has won this oh so prestigious prize for his Shedboatshed – an old boat shed that he turned into a boat, floated down the Rhine & then turned back into a shed … which is, I admit ingenious but darrrrrrrrrrrrlings, is it art?

According to curators at the Tate Gallery, the particular shed in question is a

“a buttress against the pressures of modernity, mass production & global capitalism”

which is nice … & there was me thinking that it was just a shed that fourth rate art school drop out had tinkered with. Clearly, The Times Art Critic Rachel Campbell-Johnson thinks that Starling’s work is multilayered …

“At his most ambitious, he entwines complex ideas with a sharp political point. But on a simple level, who does not understand what it means to sit in the creosoted peace of the shed & dream of sailing away on a boat”

Aardvark!