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Artist buys house set to fall in sea

A North Yorkshire artist has bought a house about to fall into the sea for just £3,000 to use in an art project.

Kane Cunningham paid for the house – which was worth over £160,000 two years ago – on his credit card, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The house, at Knipe Point, Scarborough, is just a few feet from the edge of the ongoing landslip and could fall into the sea at any time. Mr Cunningham, head of the BA Fine Art degree course at Yorkshire Coast College’s Westwood campus, plans to rig the house with cameras and film the sunrise before the house falls.

He said: “It could go in three days, three months or tonight. It depends on what kind of weather we have over winter, but it’s going to go. I want to try and make the most of it before it’s gone.”

Mr Cunningham plans to put together a series of paintings, photographs and video footage which will be exhibited at Scarborough Art Gallery next October.

“This is called the ‘Last Post’, as the address will one day cease to exist and so it’s a rare opportunity to participate in an original and unique work of art,” he said.

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