Doherty's Bloodworks on display
Pete Doherty's art collection is showing now
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Wednesday, 16, May 2007 03:34
Pete Doherty's exhibition Bloodworks has opened at a West London gallery, running for at least four weeks.
The exhibition, which includes drawings comprising pencil sketches and etchings with Doherty's blood, will be shown at the Bankrobbers Gallery.
Limited edition prints are also available, signed by Doherty, costing £300 for pictures signed with a pencil and £1,200 signed with blood.
Such is the interest in the exhibition that the Bankrobbers gallery has an automated Bloodworks message for anyone who contacts the gallery, with fans of the musician keen to see his handy work.
Doherty's blood antics caused controversy last year when an MTV camera was sprayed with what appeared to be blood from a syringe the singer was holding.
He then abruptly stood up and walked out of the interview to the utter despair and disbelief of his bandmates.
This collection is inspired by Doherty's tumultuous life in the last couple of years, with sketches showing a man lying down in prison and self portraits of the musician in his trademark trilby hat.
The singer's diaries, called the Books of Albion, are published this month and include some of the drawings.