It is a long story, and it starts with Donald Urquhart, whose “distinctive ink drawings, featuring figures such as Judy Garland, George Best and Elizabeth Taylor, satirically subvert historical and pop-cultural motifs” (via nonstarvingartists.com). Mr. Urquhart has been shortlisted for Beck's Futures 2005, one of the UK's most generous art awards.
Mr. Urquhart's exhibit, titled “Another Graveyard”, will explore themes of death and bereavement, and will include a fragrance dispersed into the air by an automatic atomizer:
The 41-year-old artist named the fragrance he created, Darnley, after Mary Queen of Scots' flamboyant husband, Lord Darnley. This fictitious cologne would have been popular among gay men in Edinburgh in the 1930s, Urquhart says…
