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Creative Scotland has clawed back nearly £68,000 of taxpayers’ cash from a controversial “hardcore” performance piece, MSPs have been told.

The funding agency took action against artist Leonie Rae Gasson after a public outcry over her show Rein.

However, the team behind the work, which aimed to show an "erotic journey through a distinctly Scottish landscape,” has denied ever misleading the funding body,

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According to its website, Rein was to be a “45 minute, multi-screen, immersive, moving image installation” performed by a mix of “dancers, sex workers, performers".

Audiences would be invited to “come see the Daddies lurking in the woods” and “bare arsed lovers frolicking in long grass” before the climax of the show, “a secret cave sex party featuring a feast” of explicit sexual practices.