Art is inspired by Doner-tello

Metro Reporter11 April 2012
The Weekender

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We've had artists kicking used curry containers down the road and Damien Hirst once put his empty beer bottles, dirty ashtrays, coffee cups and sweet wrappers on display.

Now, it is the turn of Adam O'Meara, who sees high art in his photos of greasy, sauce-stained kebab wrappers. Collected fresh at 5am in cities across England, the wrappers are a revealing study of regional identity, he says.

'Those I collected in Leeds and Bradford were bright from the amount of chilli sauce people load on to their kebabs,' the Lincoln University lecturer added.

'But those from places like London and Bath had been doused in lighter mint sauce. 'The wrappers look exactly like the ink blot tests used by psychoanalysts and lots of people have seen faces or objects in the images.'

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