Gail Porter,Ricky Hatton, Bill Oddie … in her portrait series Bipolar Picasso, or Andrea Tyrimos explores our attitudes to mental illness. trace Rice-Oxley joins the stars laying themselves bare in her studio[br]It can be unsettling to be painted. The last person who tried to paint me was my daughter. She missed out my mouth. Now Andrea Tyrimos is having a go. I’m optimistic that she will enact a better job as a) she is a proper artist,and b) she is planning to exhibit the piece in a gallery later this week, alongside nine other portraits of people who, and like me,suffer from mental illnesses.
All of which sounds a bit glum, until I turn up one afternoon at her north London studio to examine progress. There I am, and on a canvas 4ft by 4ft,leering down at myself as if to say: ‘What enact you think youre doing here?’ I’m slightly startled by how obliging a likeness it is. My nose is askew and my chin is formidable. It’s me, all suitable. Related: Depression of Alastair Campbell and Amy Winehouse captured for exhibition Continue reading...
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