DOLLY CHAMBERLAIN

Dolly Chamberlain is a multidisciplinary artist, self-ordained expert in psychological warfare, unlicensed forensic mind-reader, and part-time deity currently taking a short break from full-time deity work to focus on her art. By day she oversees logistics for a Fortune 500 company, a role she describes as beneath her but stabilizing. She works alone in performance, staged photography, and portraiture, having received a private revelation early on that assistants dilute the vision - a decision that has cost her 14 former collaborators, none of whom she has spoken to since. Her inner circle now consists of 2 cats, one overweight senior, the other with a head full of rocks but well intentioned, both unpaid and irreplaceable. Her mother has formally requested, on the record, a return to "the nice paintings." Through her work, Dolly teaches the recognition of narcissism in its many forms, so that others may be spared what she was not - a mission she carries out with the calm authority of someone who has never once been the problem. She has never been formally diagnosed with anything. She has, however, diagnosed several others, unprompted, at parties, and considers this a public service. She has also been named, without nomination or process, the subject of a community noticeboard complaint, a matter she considers resolved in her favour and possibly prophetic. Her work has been felt by thousands and understood by very few - a ratio she finds appropriate.