ARTIST Sioux Tempestt presents a rogues gallery at X-Wray this Fremantle Festival.

Her exhibition “To all the (boys) I’ve loved before” saw her paint contemporary style portraits of her “screen deities”, including House of Cards’ Frank Underwood and Breaking Bad meth cook Jessie Pinkman.

Tempestt says she chose characters “who’ve had some profound effect on me”.

The works point at the weird gap between the feeling we intimately know these characters because they enter our house every week, and the reality that we actually know nothing about the-.

“I can identify with those characters, the background, the history, the impact that the show has on other people,” says Tempestt, a graphic designer by day.

“Even though some of the shows are long gone, future generations are still watching them and they’re going to be discovering them.”

Amongst other fictional characters such as serial killer Dexter Morgan, Californication’s randy writer Hank Moody and strip club-owning gangster Tony Soprano, is one real person—the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. His portrait isn’t of any one role, just a picture of the man himself.

The show opened October 26 and runs through November 9 at X-Wray Cafe on Essex Street.

by DAVID BELL