Artist to smoke Cobain's ashes in joint

By Shannon Deery | October 12, 2008 THE father of controversial Melbourne artist Natascha Stellmach - who was last night due to smoke a spliff with the ashes of Kurt Cobain inside - says he is proud of his daughter. It has also emerged that Ms Stellmach received a taxpayer-funded $35,000 grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to take residency in Berlin in 2006. Manfred Stellmach said yesterday he was aware of the controversy surrounding his 38-year-old daughter's latest... [read full story]