Suzy Sharpe is an artist and lecturer based in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her work seeks to foster a dialogue around the relationships we share with objects and our natural environment as an essential feature of the human condition. The monoprints featured here unearth secrets pertaining to what’s been left behind and explore the intimate details of beloved garments from her past. Sharpe’s personal mementos become memorialized in ghostly shadows as a baby’s christening gown and broderie anglaise bonnet reveals its honest impressions on the page. “I’ve just become a grandmother for the third time so I suppose I was revisiting memories from when my own daughters were young” Sharpe mentions, “this practice has been a way of representing those memories in a physical form.” The artist’s prints encourage the viewer to take a closer look and wonder at the hidden beauty in utilitarian details like the snaps of a onesie or the elastic lace trim on a silk stocking. Her prints honor both the familiarity and the novelty that exists in all that has been well-loved. “When you wear clothes you just wear them, don't you?” Sharpe poses, “but when you make art from them, it draws the unnoticed and unappreciated details into the spotlight
so that we can celebrate them.”