Artist and writer Leanne Shapton has painted Princess Diana from the hundreds of photographs of her getting out of cars, examining her iconography and meaning in gesture and form.

In Cars: On Diana
is about photography, celebrity, identity, facsimile, and where to hold the beheld. It is also an obsessive and loving collection of studies, abstracted and haunting.

‘Leanne Shapton is one of the most broadly creative and gifted people at work today; a true artist, both visual and verbal.’ - David Rakoff

‘Leanne Shapton writes with such curiosity ruefulness intelligence and grace.’ - Sheila Heti

‘A strange and evocative poem, nesting in a sequence of paintings, both the art and the words examining Diana having her photograph taken getting out of cars - each path taking us inevitably to the final car ride. Like a gentler, kinder, J. G. Ballard, Leanne takes us on a journey into cars and iconography and the spirit of ecstasy.’ - Neil Gaiman