A Few of My Favourite Things . . .Celebrities Reveal All in Exhibition New Show Asks Artists - Both Amateurs and Professionals - to Draw the Places, Animals, Books, Food and Music That Give an Insight Into What Makes Them Tick and What Their Lives Are Like Away From the Spotlight. Edd Mccracken Reports

Sunday Herald › September 08, 2008

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IF, to paraphrase Salvador Dali, drawing is the most honest of the arts, then asking famous people to sketch their favourite things should be incredibly revealing.

And so it has proved in a new exhibition that opens this week in London, which features prominent Scots such as actor Peter Capaldi and BBC journalist Andrew Marr, along with artists such as Glasgowbased David Shrigley and Quentin Blake along with musicians like Eric Clapton and Brian Eno.

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A Few of My Favourite Things . . .Celebrities Reveal All in Exhibition New Show Asks Artists - Both Amateurs and Professionals - to Draw the Places, Animals, Books, Food and Music That Give an Insight Into What Makes Them Tick and What Their Lives Are Like Away From the Spotlight. Edd Mccracken Reports

We learn that author Philip Pullman's favourite food is, rather disgustingly, toast with dripping; Eric Clapton dreams of fishing while on stage; Marr's favourite tipple is an Islay single malt; Sh...

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