If Kate Moss hasn’t yet killed British art, then Pete Doherty aims to finish it off full stop:

Nope, Pete isn’t painting with ketchup – he’s painting with his own blood. A gallery of disease-ridden Doherty is about to go on show, and each painting will be priced around 1000 pounds. This arguable art practice also purports to explain why Pete appeared to be injecting a female fan with heroin in those recent controversial photographs. Pete claims he was merely drawing her blood to use in a painting. His self-styled literary agent, a Mister Roundtree, had this to proffer:

“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.”

Ahem. To see Pete Doherty’s classy little flat, complete with blood paintings on the walls, you may dare to watch this disturbing video footage. The montage is several minutes long, but two minutes should be adequate to receive the full Doherty effect.