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It's rat - but is it art?
It's rat - but is it art?
Last Modified: 05 Mar 2008
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Channel 4 News
Photographic prints of "artworks" by Helen Seget's pet rodents are fetching thousands of pounds.
Piles of trash, unmade beds, urinals - the art world is well known for putting what many consider rubbish on show.
But until now the artists have a least been human.
Now a rat from Newcastle, with his half-eaten avocados and chewed-up bits of carpet, is latest art sensation.
Helena Seget started selling photographic prints of her pet rodents "art" from her front room, and some are now fetching thousands of pounds.
Accompanying report by Harry Anscombe
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