Sickert's Shadow Portfolio: box
About this artwork
This box was designed by Julie Roberts to contain a suite of five etchings titled ‘Sickert’s Shadow Portfolio’. In the portfolio Roberts explores the theory raised by several writers, that Walter Sickert (1860–1942), one of Britain’s most outstanding artists, could have been the mass murderer known as Jack the Ripper. Three of the etchings illustrate women in bed chambers while one is a portrait of Sickert himself, accompanied by a menacing shadow. Such dark themes are typical in Roberts’ work, with many of her drawings, paintings and prints exploring death, violence and power as seen from a woman’s perspective.
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artist:Julie Roberts (born 1963) Welsh
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title:Sickert's Shadow Portfolio: box
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date created:2006
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measurements:Not known
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object type:
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credit line:Gift 2015
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accession number:GMA 5533 G
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gallery:
Julie Roberts
Julie Roberts
Roberts was born in Fflint, Wales. She studied at Wrexham School of Art, Central St Martin's School of Art and Design and Glasgow School of Art. Roberts established her name with paintings exploring the history of medicine, images of medical instruments, apparatuses and clothing, such as operating...