Douglas Coupland seeks Van Gogh lookalikes for art project

Generation X author offers a5,000 prize to person who most closely resembles red-haired painter

Do you have a serious, grimly determined face, red hair and a beard? Do people swear you've got the look of Vincent van Gogh? If so, you can help the novelist and artist Douglas Coupland as he explores genetics and globalisation.

Coupland, best known as the author of the 1991 novel Generation X, is searching for the world's closest lookalike to Van Gogh and is offering a a5,000 prize.