but is it art?

I expect a local farmer has been quite happy to provide the cows. And the milking equipment. Who knows, perhaps his company too.

Does Ms Reid thinks it is safe for her to sleep in the centre of Bristol City with just 2 cows for company for 5 nights?. Is Ms Reid funding this herself?. It would just be interesting to know who is paying for this exhibition!.

Andbloody Asda

It's not a stunt. It's time people woke up to the unfairness in the way the farmers are treated by the likes of bloody Tesco
Yes, yes, yes
However, Tesco aren't as bad as Lidl, Aldi and Morrisons!
Morrisons even have the nerve to sell what is probably the same milk at a premium so that we can choose whether or not to pay a fair price for the milk to the farmer!!

Your last post 19.22.57 is also spot on, jingls

Who actually said it was 'art'? Where did that information come from?Just because she happens to be an artist doesn't mean she can't make a non-artistic political statement. As she has. On behalf of the farmers.

I am in total agreement with you jingls, but it doesnt make this stunt art.

Re Shaun the Sheep - We had over 200 5' Owls in Birmingham. They brightened up the city and got strangers talking to each other. When they were sold off the city looked boring and I felt quite bereft!

Where would we be without our milk?

It's not a stunt. It's time people woke up to the unfairness in the way the farmers are treated by the likes of bloody Tesco.

It's so bad that milk is cheaper than bottled water. If this small exhibition goes some way to showing just how arduous dairy farming is, that can only be good. Well done her. It's not meant to be art. It's meant to be informative.

Be fairer to dairy farmers!

And of course it won't hurt the cows.

So now children will think cows are kept in tents and milked by artists. Fields and farmers will be forgotten!

Art ?- no. Crackers ? - yes.

or arty-farty?

[groan]

but is it art?

Apparently that one is leaking formaldehyde fumes - readings around the glass case are far higher than they should be. I wonder which is worse - methane farts from the cows or formaldehyde fumes from the art installation?

Artist Nessie Reid's The Milking Parlour is designed to raise awareness about farming and food production
Ms Reid is living with two pure-bred Guernsey cows in Anchor Bay, and hopes the project will "create debate"

She will probably achieve both those aims

I would rather see them in the city centre than the half one in formaldehyde by thingy Hurst

Shazmo24 Thanks for that, did not make it into Bristol today but glad to know the cows are fine (as I thought they would be having seen her and them on the tv).
The people from Peta, Animal Aid and the BBC are a lot more agitated than the cows from the evidence so far.

She had already said that they are show cows - anyone who has been to a big show knows how many people are there, how noisy it can be - probably more so than Bristol day or night!
The countryside is not all quiet and peaceful, and no, there are many children who just think that milk comes in plastic bottles .....

I live in Bristol...The cows are fine. .chilled out & nor in distress. ..lots of kids have no idea where milk comes from other than in plastic bottles from the supermarket...she's got their welfare and security covered

I expect they will be alright in the tent, it's only for a short while. No, it isn't art though, it's a stunt.

I think someone ought to call the police in, and get them moooved on.

When I heard about "cows", I first thought they would be like last year's very successful and amusing "Shaun the Sheep" installations round Bristol but with cows... Then perhaps it would be "formaldehyde cows" like Damien Hirst's.
Really! what will these attention seekers do next in the name of "Art"?
And those poor cows. I hope they get sent back to their field/shed very soon and not upon the completion of this silly woman's "installation".

These days art is anything you can convince the so called experts is art, but I do think this is going a bit far. Maybe animal activists will intervene and kidnap (cownap?) the cows releasing them into a field somewhere. I wonder if she is getting some arts funding for this?

Riverwalk These cows actually come from a local farm where they live in fields in good weather, being in a tent would be totally alien to them.