Jamie Shovlin made his name with a meticulous and elaborate hoax. Creating an archive of drawings, diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings, he traced the life and disappearance of a 13-year-old fledgling artist called Naomi V Jelish. It was a work that managed to be both haunting and absurd and Charles Saatchi, for one, admitted that it had had him fooled - at least until it dawned that the young artist's name was in fact an anagram of Shovlin's own. Still, it impressed him enough to buy it.
