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It’s no coincidence that one of the most successful artists of the 20th century coined that over-used phrase about everyone being famous for fifteen minutes. While Andy Warhol may have crystallised the relationship between art and celebrity in a rainbow of screen prints, contemporary artists have seized the theme and gone deep under the skin of our love-hate relationship with celebrity.

These days it’s common to see art featuring not just straight portraits of famous faces, but work that twists and titillates our interest in those celebrities. Photography of celebs can offer an intimate, private glimpse of a public persona, while paintings succeed in adding texture and emotion to the air-brushed images the celeb mags feed us.

There’s no doubt about it, celebrity is intoxicating, and for those of you who’d like to see Kate Moss, Elvis Presley and David Beckham all hanging out in your living room, art could well be your answer.