Artist: Jamie Shovlin

Location: London, United Kingdom

Short Bio:

Shovlin’s first exhibited work, Naomi V Jelish, was bought by Charles Saatchi, providing an auspicious start to the conceptual artist’s career. A comprehensive collection of schoolbooks, letters and drawings from the fictional, 13-year-old art prodigy Jelish and her family, it charted her father’s death and the rest of the family’s subsequent disappearance, as well as the collation of her work by her teacher John Ivesmail (both names are anagrams of Shovlin’s own). It announced the artist as a master of deception, keen to play on the often blurred boundaries between fact and fiction.