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24 February 2010, 4:19 pm

Mishcon de Reya’s family department launched Creativity in Conflict, a collaboration with Central Saint Martins College to award prizes to its top MA fine art students.

The event took place at the Imagination Gallery in Store Street and the acrobatic fire jugglers performing outside signalled that something distinctly odd was afoot. Inside nothing was quite what it seemed. The rationale of the award was that the process of marital breakdown could be represented as a creative art. However, the reality of that Conflict reference was the presence of serious guys in suits from “Conflict International — Investigation, Security, Intelligence” that puts former gunslingers into car boots to monitor your movements and former Met officers to trawl through your garbage.

Not that it wasn’t fun. Staff posing as lawyers turned out to be writers of film scores and I was pleased to meet the artists Emily Lockren and Stephen Ford who had turned their backs on the gimmickry of Damien Hirst to pursue the virtues of hard work and high skills.

Meanwhile, David Lister, apparently a real Mishcon solicitor, entertained the crowd by cavorting with a bottle of champagne balanced on his head. It was that kind of crazy evening. That the Mishcon website carried nothing about the prize or the launch merely confirmed that it was all a bit of an illusion.

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