Embarrassed faces last night as the director of the 2025 Turner Prize admitted that an electrician’s box of tools left in the main hall at Bradford Grammar School had been mistaken for a short-listed entry for this year’s prestigious award due to take place at the venue this evening.
Alex Farquharson told Spoofflé that the red tool box, a pair of size 14 safety boots and a half-eaten pork pie were assumed to be an overnight installation entitled ‘Stuff’ by the acclaimed Chinese artist and dissident Nay Woo Woo.
Charlie Spiggott, 59, an employee of Ohmer Electrics Ltd, later claimed the items as his own. “I wondered where the hell they’d gone,” he said. “But you never know, it might ‘ave won!”
The situation took an amazing twist at lunchtime today when Mr Woo Woo turned up at the school with his own work, a seven-metre high toolbox, packed with plastic pork pies and mounted on a giant black boot.
“An incredible coincidence, don’t you think? Incredible.” We agree.