Hail Kate, Full of Grace

There are artists, and then there is Kate Bush. Since Wuthering Heights arrived fully formed in 1978 — a nineteen-year-old, barefoot, spinning on Top of the Pops — she has occupied a category entirely her own. Visionary, reclusive, mythologised, beloved. The kind of artist people don't just admire but feel personally saved by.

This Elliott Best pop art piece renders her as Mother Mary — serene, luminous, and entirely deserving of the iconography. It is reverent and irreverent in equal measure, which is exactly the right register for Kate Bush. She has always existed somewhere between the earthly and the transcendent. This image simply makes it official. For the devotees. For the walls that need a patron saint.