Two Hairnets, No. 4, 2011 – pen on paper by Susie MacMurray

Susie MacMurray Solo debut show at Agnew’s Gallery.

9th November – 2nd December, 2011.

Agnew’s, 35 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JD.

Manchester based artist Susie MacMurray is fast becoming recognized for her large scale, site specific (particularly in within historic buildings) which encompass architectural installations, drawing and sculpture.

She memorably built a wall of silver plated mussel shells lined with velvet at Pallant House, Chichester; and hung 10,000 hairnets containing used violin bow hair in York St Mary’s in association with the York Museums Trust.

The former professional classical musician retrained as an artist, graduating with an MA in Fine Art in 2001. She has gone on to build an international exhibition profile. The show at Agnew’s first solo exhibition.

With each piece of work nothing is as quite as pretty, unassuming and as it looks. A wedding gown is constructed out of hundreds of household gloves pointing to the domestic reality that the romantic fairytale becomes, human hair looped through fish hooks and so on etc. Her recurrent theme of beauty and the sinister undertone is compelling.

The solo show coincides with her inclusion in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s The Power of Making exhibition.

More on Susie MacMurray’s solo show at Agnew’s here.