FULTON'S TERROR ART TO GO DOWN A BOMB

AN Army spy has turned bombs into "art" in a chilling series of sculptures which will go on public display.

The exhibition, including ticking bombs and incendiary devices, is set to spark controversy when it opens in late summer.

Titled Explosive Art By Kevin, the strange collection is the work of the former Force Research Unit agent known as Kevin Fulton.

Fulton, who operated for years as a spy inside the IRA, claims the graphic 'sculptures' depict his work as an undercover agent.

Dubbed "expressionist art", the pieces are drawn from Fulton's personal experiences at the height of the IRA's terror campaign in Northern Ireland.

A source close to the former FRU agent said his work is "extremely explicit and evocative" and that a few independent London galleries are already interested.

He said: "It is all based on Kevin Fulton's work as a FRU agent.

"Visually it is extremely graphic and uses everyday materials associated with Northern Ireland's paramilitary organisations. What Kevin Fulton has done is unique.

"He has used the materials of terrorism and fashioned 'sculptures' from them. Fulton's displays are both graphic and chilling. They are certainly a break from conventional art forms."

Among the exhibits which will go on display later this year is one entitled "Bomb In a Holdall".

It consists of an ordinary canvass grip bag. However, the holdall contains an exact inert replica of a terrorist improvised explosive device or IED.

A background sound of a timing device slowing clicking away, running down to zero accompanies the display.

Another exhibit entitled Fiery Joe consists of a series of cassette incendiary devices. The incendiaries are replicas of those used to burn down the Sprucefield Shopping Centre near Lisburn a number of years ago.

The sounds of a major fire alert incident provide the background for the exhibit.

The largest of Fulton's exhibits is called, Bomb, Bomb, Factory.

Consisting of all the components of a terrorist bomb factory, it displays such items as a coffee grinder, fertiliser, detonator, diesel and a pair of rubber gloves - all used to make a terrorist bomb.

A series of colour and black and white pictures also form part of the Explosive Art by Kevin exhibition.

A picture of a hooded terrorist assembling a booby-trap bomb has the startling title of Flash! Bang! Wallop!

Sources said a top U.S. multi-national company had already expressed an interest in sponsoring the exhibit.

"This will be an explosive display in more than one sense,", said the source. "It will also be an exhibition were the artist cannot be present because of fear of assassination by the IRA."

Meanwhile, an X-ray portrait of Kevin Fulton's skull will also go on display in London shortly.

The portrait is by artist Alexander De Cadenet, younger brother of actress Amanda De Cadenet, who has created a number of similar portraits.

Among the skull portraits on display are those of model Yasmin Le Bon, snooker player Stephen Hendry and disgraced politician Jonathan Aitken.

The 8-foot high portraits are on sale for pounds 10,000 each.

Ironically, the Fulton skull portrait is displayed alongside that of Dame Stella Rimington, the former Head of the British Intelligence Services.

Fulton is one of a group of ex-Army agents who infiltrated terror groups but who now feel they have been dumped by the authorities.

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