Piers Morgan, the Kardashians, and Pol Pot feature in an artist’s tongue-in-cheek new work titled “People who’ve p***ed me off’.

Brighton artist Elizabeth Eade said her “kinetic installation”, a blue metal box which reels off a receipt-like list of her least favourite people, also includes the names of “almost all of her friends”.

It was unveiled at her first major solo exhibition, titled “I know you are but what am I”, in London at the weekend.

Eade lives and works in Brighton and graduated with an MA in fine art from Brighton University last year.

In 2018 she won the celebrated £10,000 Hix Art award, which is judged by the likes of Tracey Emin.

She has since gone on to make a name for herself in the art world.

Closer to home, Brighton and Hove City Council has commissioned a public artwork from her, and her work can be seen in Brighton Square, where she has decorated the wall of the Street Thai restaurant with 1,620 pieces of gold leaf.

Not all of Eade’s work is so light-hearted. Also featuring in the exhibition is her work Net Realisable Value, or NRV.

NRV is a term used by insurance companies for lost and damaged goods.

Eade said she felt compelled to produce the piece in response to the deaths of 26 teenage girls found drowned off the coast of Italy in 2017.

Two of the girls were pregnant, and it is believed they were being trafficked from Nigeria into the sex industry.

The artwork takes the form of an identical number of clay and copper figures, which Eade immersed in sea water.

A chemical reaction resulted in the formation of green crystals on the surface of the figures.

Organisers said the exhibition was both “playful and acerbic”, inviting the viewer to “share or rebut Eade’s subjective prejudices, while also creating a portrait of herself – or, as she puts it, a visual display of ‘a mind at boiling point’”.

They said: “Eade is primarily an installation artist and in this exhibition – her first major solo show – she explores her attitude towards a range of social and political issues, some serious, some frivolous.”

The director at Hix Art Sophie Harriott said: ‘Part of winning the award is the opportunity to have a solo exhibition at Hix Art and we are privileged to be showing this compelling and deeply powerful body of work by this extraordinarily gifted artist.’

The exhibition runs in the basement of Tramshed in Rivington Street in London’s Shoreditch until March 15.