Spy: Judith Collins stars in reporter's art show

Part of the new exhibition. Photo / Sean Aitken

MP Judith Collins features in the latest art exhibition by Jesse Peach.

Peach resigned from TV3 on Friday after a 10-year stint as a reporter. Spy understands he is in love and off to London. He wouldn't be drawn on further details but was more than happy to tell us about his second art exhibition - named One Night in a Melbourne Jail Cell - launching tonight at Family Bar on Karangahape Rd.

His last exhibition in May was a huge success and New Zealand's biggest private art collector, Sir James Wallace, bought a piece.

"It's based on an incident I was involved in last year at the Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibition in Melbourne," Peach said. "It was a night full of colour, fashion and flamboyance.

"Let's just say there was an arrest for drinking in public and the show is based on that night."

The exhibition has 16 paintings, six photos and a llama, representing a beautiful thing chained up. "The exhibition is about not restraining people's freedom, in a way, I have two well-known people featured in this juxtaposition."

One is former Justice and Police Minister "Crusher" Collins, posed with her eyes shut and makeup across her eyelids. "It's about suppression and losing your power. Everyone is the same when their eyes are shut."