Susie MacMurray, After Shell, 2006
Mixed media (mussel shells stuffed with silk velvet) - Pallant House
This is a section from an installation of 20,000 shells which originally covered the staircase walls of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. The half open shells were used by MacMurray to symbolise the sterility of the marriage of the house’s original owners, Henry Peckham and his wife, Elizabeth Albery. Each shell is a ‘petit mort’, with the individual red silk velvet linings expressing sensual desire, trapped within the shells.
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