NEWS RELEASES
A Vision of Beauty at Horsham Museum
24th July 2007
A Vision of Beauty in Old Undies?! Artists can be inspired by many a strange thing, even a urinal, but surely one of the strangest has to be old underwear. Not underwear modelled on glamorous hour-glass ladies, but underwear draped over an ironing board; underwear hanging up by a bit of string. Yet that is what inspired Horsham artist Sheelagh Sendall and her three large canvases are now in the very display that inspired her - Revealing Layers at Horsham Museum.
The three canvases translate the shape, colours and textures of the display into a rich multi-coloured representative art work. They reveal how an artist can see different things in everyday, often mundane objects. Sheelagh, one of Horsham Museum’s caretakers, has been seeing Revealing Layers virtually every day for the last six months. During this time she has seen aspects of the underwear which the casual viewer just wouldn’t notice, be it the way light catches an item or the shape and form of a corset. Using these insights she has, as part of the artist workshop at Partridge Green, been developing her canvasses. It seemed therefore most apt that with some minor adjustments to the exhibition the artwork can appear alongside the very items that created and inspired them - old undies.
Sheelagh’s canvasses will be on display from now until the end of August, giving visitors a chance to see things afresh.
For further information please contact:
Jeremy Knight, Curator.
Horsham Museum
9 Causeway, Horsham,
West Sussex
RH12 1HE
Tel: (01403) 254959 Fax: (01403) 282594
Email: museum@horsham.gov.uk
Website: http://www.horshammuseum.org/