- Venue
- Westbourne Grove Church Art Space
- Starts
- Thursday, October 22, 2009
- Ends
- Wednesday, December 16, 2009
- Address
- Westbourne Grove Church ArtSpace Westbourne Grove Church Westbourne Grove (corner of Ledbury Road) London W11 2RW
- Location
- London
In his book ‘Lore of The Unicorn’, Odell Shepard describes the Unicorn as being interesting ‘.. almost entirely as a denizen of “The Monarch Thought’s Dominion”’. i.e. as a creation of man’s imagination. The story of the unicorn has been entwined with those of real animals, most just as strange and fascinating themselves, and reveal just as much about us and our engagement with the natural word, as they do about the unicorn itself. These vague and ambiguous descriptions have been worked upon by the imaginations of artists and writers over time, and Walsh is adding her interpretation. There are eight oil paintings all based on horses and ponies indigenous to the UK and Eire, making the most ordinary equines of our country extraordinary – or perhaps making the extraordinary unicorn ordinary? Included in the exhibtion is a ‘life size’ drawing of a unicorn thundering towards us, taking its title (’Unicorn from The Stars’) from the play by Yeats, where a young man experiences visions of unicorns trampling the ground. He struggles to interpret its meaning and symbolism, in a way what humans have been doing through the ages in their chase of the unicorn legend.
