Jessica Voorsanger

Jessica Voorsanger’s work explores popular culture with a particular fascination on celebrity. She often focuses on the relationship between fans and their idols, using a range of different media from performance and installation to costumes, painting and mail art.

For this exhibition, Voorsanger has created two works inspired by Stuart Sutcliffe. The first is a painting called They Think Art is All About Van Gogh, which is loosely inspired by the film Backbeat (1994), chronicling Sutcliffe’s friendship with John Lennon and his tragic demise. The comic book language referenced in the painting style embraces and exemplifies the mythology surrounding Stuart Sutcliffe in the film.

The second work, Stuart Sutcliffe (Impostor Series), is part of a larger series of work called Impostors, where Voorsanger invites participants to ‘become’ the subject in a form of homage. She supplies a costume, wig and portrait of an iconic figure. In this case she is paying homage to Stuart Sutcliffe.

Höfner have kindly donated a Höfner President Bass Guitar to be part of this piece for the duration of the exhibition.