Medals of Dishonour

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Michael Landy - 'ASBO Medal' Michael Landy - 'ASBO Medal'

Time Out says

Curators Phillip Attwood and Felicity Powell have picked out 23 medallic badges of shame from the last 400 years and commissioned 13 new medals from some of the world's leading contemporary artists. Cornelia Parker's silver medal depicts two faceless men bearing the legend 'We Know What You Have Done' and 'We Know Who You Are'. Indeed, the carefully coiffured heads were based on rear views of Bush and Blair. Reprehensible behaviour of a different kind inspires the shimmering yellow medallion by Michael Landy - which, at first glimpse, looks for all the world like an Olympic gold. And Landy's award goes to… 'Dean Rowbotham for breaking his Asbo on more than 20 occasions. (OW)

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