Digital Vegetable Baiting ~ A North East Arts Festival ~

Digital Vegetable Baiting 
~ A North East Arts Festival ~

The Ancient North East Sport of Vegetable Baiting is part of a wider cultural tradition of sporting based satire, noted for its annual black & white comedy pantomime. 

      . . . including The 2021 Gurner Prize Nominees







**Nominated for Tony Gormless Prize for Primitive Art

[Princess Rio, a well known Cheshire landowner and member of the Man United Gold Bog Aristocracy, has offered to reseed his lawn with cabbages to help the foodbank following a recent embarrassment.]







Location: Hexham NE46, UK

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