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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Patrick Barkham

‘Like something from Bake Off’: animal poo exhibition opens in London

Tracey Lee holding animal faeces on a canvas with a camel in the background.
Tracey Lee started collecting animal dung while working at London Zoo. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

A pile of something resembling chocolate raisins is displayed on what looks like a cake base. There’s an artful assemblage of something the size and shape of oysters – and isn’t that chocolate torte and sticky toffee pudding over there?

“They look like something from Bake Off,” says Tracey Lee, an artist and former zookeeper, whose unique collection of animal excrement goes on public display for the first time this weekend in London.

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