Put yourself in my shoes

Published as part of the BBC series Show Me The Monet 2011 Mother-of-three Belinda Durrant from Stroud in Gloucestershire, England took the plunge into the art world when she left her career as a research-technician to go to Art College in 2004. Her sculpture Little Lead Shoes Age 3 made it onto the BBC 2’s Show Me The Monet show, a show produced in a similar style to the channel’s entrepreneurial show Dragon’s Den, but for artists. The tiny, helplessly-posed hand-made shoes Belinda brought to the show’s Hanging Committee instantly struck the judges as having...