A 'provocative' award-winning art installation will be brought to life in Glasgow City Centre.

Women will be 'milked' on the streets close to the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) for a performative art piece by animal rights activist, artist and filmmaker Stephanie Lane that is a protest against the dairy industry.

A finalist for the Women In Art Prize, her work Milk is NOT Human(e) "aims to create a conversation about speciesism by putting humans in the position of animals".

Shoppers will be invited to look, listen and have a conversation with art guides to help them understand the work at 1pm this Saturday.

Artist Stephanie Lane was a finalist for the Women in Art award Artist Stephanie Lane was a finalist for the Women in Art award (Image: freelancer) Stephanie's work has been exhibited globally from Australia, To USA, to Canada, South America and several countries in Europe as well as several UK cities. 

She said: “My work places humans in the place of nonhuman animals, in similar situations the latter are subjected to in the various animal agriculture industries.

“The aim is to challenge societal norms through the arts, by instilling critical thinking on the urgent matter and accelerate the path to a truly ethical world for nonhuman animals."

Earlier this year another work by the artist was premiered on the Dorset coast despite calls for the show to be cancelled.


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Fishing is NOT Human(e) on Sandbanks beach ‘demonstrated the suffering of fish caught in a net’ by depicting humans in a similar experience.

This, the artist said, was to instil critical thinking on speciesism and it aimed to encourage understanding of the ‘pain and suffering caused to trillions of sentient beings by the fishing industry’.

It was also to highlight the ‘frightening consequences to the ecosystem of losing fish from UK waters’.

STephanie Lane's performance art piece will be staged outside GOMA this SaturdayStephanie Lane's performance art piece will be staged outside GOMA this Saturday (Image: Newsquest)

Concerns were raised by the council over the installation, approaching the first anniversary of the death of 17-year-old Joe Abbess and 12-year-old Sunnah Khan on Bournemouth beach.

Amanda Barrie, BCP Council director of commercial operations, previously said the authority had been clear it would not give permission to the artist for the installation.

This was ‘out of respect for the families as we approach the anniversary of last year’s tragic events’.

The installation was originally planned for Bournemouth beach, but the London-based artist said it was moved to Sandbanks ‘following local concern’ close to the anniversary of the deaths.

The event was a collaboration with animal rights organisations Save Movement and We The Free.

After concerns were raised, Ms Lane said she had redefined the event as a ‘protest’.