Winehouse bronze sculpture on show

Guy Portelli's statue of Amy Winehouse, titled 'Excess'

A sculpture of troubled singer Amy Winehouse is going on show.

Entitled Excess, the bronze piece shows Winehouse, complete with her trademark beehive hairstyle, sitting with a smashed champagne bottle.

The star's body is covered with what appear to be tiny pills and she is holding a glass outstretched.

A pool of liquid lies beneath the singer's feet in the work by Guy Portelli, a sculptor from Tonbridge, Kent.

Another piece, Celebrity 1, a print by art student Charlotte Suckling, shows Winehouse with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.

The images are going on display at the Mall Galleries in central London, as part of its annual Royal Society of British Artists exhibition.

Portelli, whose previous subjects have included Bob Marley and Grace Jones, said of his work: "I think she is great. I would never make a sculpture of someone I didn't respect."

The exhibition runs from May 15 to 25.

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