Art as tabloid fodder

NOT since Marc Quinn's "Alison Lapper Pregnant" appeared in Trafalgar Square is a sculpture likely to cause such hand-wringing in London. Daniel Edwards' contribution to the Bridge Art Fair (which opens this Thursday at the Trafalgar Hotel) is a life-sized imagining of Prince Harry lying supine in military dress, dead. Not just lifeless, but earless, and with a vulture perched at his feet. As if to add insult to indignity, a bronze casting of the severed ears will be put up for sale on eBay, according to the press release. (The version below is a clay model, with ears attached.)

Messrs Edwards and Quinn seem to relish portraying famous people in unsettling ways. Mr Quinn's "Myth (Sphinx)" has Kate Moss in an impossibly awkward yoga position; Mr Edwards achieved notoriety with "Nude Britney Spears Giving Birth" and "Paris Hilton Autopsy".