Artist gets £20k bottom grant

An artist has been given a £20,000 grant for a new project to study attitudes towards female bottoms in different cultures.

Sue Williams will use the grant to make a series of moulds of women's bottoms, including her own, for the piece, Western Mail reports.

Williams said: "The project is taking on the issues around the bottom 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."

An Arts Council for Wales spokesperson said: "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."