Anthony-Noel Kelly

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Anthony-Noel Kelly (d. 1956) is a British artist who was charged with graverobbing after his involvement with a lab technician to illegally smuggle out cadavers and body parts from the Royal College of Surgeons in London for use in his exhibition at the London Contemporary Art Fair in 1997. The cadavers were exhibited in a series of casts, painted silver and pinned to a wall, in order to view anatomy "in a historical context" according to Kelly. However, he was arrested soon after and formerly charged with stealing human bodies following the discovery plaster casts of deceased men and women as well as around 30 body parts during a police raids in his South London studio and his family's ancestral castle in Kent in April 1997 and sentenced to nine months imprisonment.