Does everyone get 15 minutes of Fame? Priseman paints 'iconic' faces onto old religious icons bought off ebay.

In this new series of paintings, 100 damaged religious icons from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been purchased from e-bay and over-painted with the portrait of a twentieth century celebrity whose life has ended in suicide or early death through a self-destructive life style.

The process of over-painting seeks to mimic the replacement in contemporary culture of faith with fame and of saints with ‘stars’, exploring Jarvis Cocker’s idea that people believe fame is a kind of heaven that can “sort things out”. It explores the territory of just how many people one needs to be known by in order to be considered famous and begins to look more closely at the human price of fame, finding amongst the ‘celebrated’ many individuals who are troubled and at times unable to cope with the pressures of modern living

1 February - 27 February 2014