A Gallery

[1] The gallery's first exhibit was recent Chelsea graduate Alison Jackson's Crucifix, priced at £1,500 and five years later valued at ten times that amount, after she had won a Bafta and written a best-selling book.

[1] In 2004, the gallery exhibited in the window a life-sized nude sculpture, This Is Me (Who Am I), by Marie White (aged 24), a graduate of Wimbledon College of Art.

"[4] For 24 hours the sculpture was moved to the side of the gallery, out of public view, then returned to the window with two frosted glass panels in place.

[3] Scott raised the sculpture's price from £5,000 to £7,000,[3] which he said was nearer its real value, as it had taken eight months and cost £3,000 to make, mainly for 250 hours of the model's time.

[4] White said the work was not intended to cause offence, and that, as it was not posed in a "lewd, crude way", she was surprised at "the reaction of males that they can't view a nude sculpture and not imprint the sexual aspect onto her.

[1] Scott said it had been removed without warning, called the site "Murdoch Space" and said the painting was not porn or titillation, but thought-provoking: "They don't seem to be able to differentiate between the two!

[7] Scott said that it wasn't "even an issue" and he did not use artists to promote Scientology, but was dedicated to selling their work, which he did so very successfully.

[13] Leo Goatley, Rose West's solicitor, showed New Millennium Economic Symphony, a painting commenting on the undermining of "society's dwindling safety" as a result of government reforms.

The gallery had a shelf of books for sale by Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard and hosted religious workshops for the Church about two times a week.

The A Gallery, Wimbledon, July 2007. Paintings by Peter McArdle (left) and Paul Harvey , sculpture by Adrian Bannister.
Peter McArdle . An Annunciation . Censored by MySpace .
Then- Tate gallery chairman Paul Myners (left) and Fraser Kee Scott, director of A Gallery, in July 2007.