Rocker Pete Doherty shows 'blood paintings'...
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Doherty's blood paintings
By Robert Mendick, Evening Standard
Pictures painted by Pete Doherty using his own blood are to go on show.
The singer is to exhibit them at a London gallery and charge about
£1,000 each to sell them, the Evening Standard has learned.
His friends say they help prove his innocence over claims he injected a
female fan with heroin while she lay unconscious at his Hackney flat.
Doherty was arrested on Saturday by police investigating a photo in The
Sun, apparently showing him sticking a needle in the arm of Laura McEvoy,
21. [And this is going to help prove his innocence how, legal insanity?]
He faces a maximum 10-year jail sentence if prosecuted and found guilty
under the Offences Against The Person Act. But Doherty, 27, claims he was
actually drawing blood from Ms McEvoy to use in a painting.
The paintings shown here were completed over the past six months. They
are being stored at the home of Paul Roundhill, 51, his self-styled
literary agent, in Whitechapel.
Mr Roundhill said today: "I picked these pictures up at his flat in
Hackney. Blood paintings are something he has done for a long time. I
think they help explain the photograph of Laura. It shows he does do
blood paintings." He said convent-educated Ms McEvoy was not a "druggie"
but a "nice girl".
"I really don't think Pete was injecting her," he said. "It was just
staged."
The most recent blood painting was completed while Doherty was in
Ireland. It shows his tour bus surrounded by fans. Another sketch shows
Doherty smoking with a female companion. Friends said she is not supposed
to be Kate Moss.
They can be viewed on Mr Roundhill's website balachadha.com, for a
charge. Some say "balachadha" is local slang for crack cocaine. Doherty
recently used blood drawn from his former manager James Mullord. Mr
Mullord said: "He was very careful, he used a new needle. Pete has become
very good at using the syringe, either scratching it on to the paper or
spraying an area. It creates an effect a little like a Ralph Steadman
cartoon."
It is understood Doherty recently sold a conventional painting for more
than £1,000. He is on two years' probation for drugs possession. The
Evening Standard understands he will undergo a second surgical implant
next week in an attempt to combat heroin addiction.
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