work in progress, Caitlin Hackett

The current ‘Myths and Monsters’ exhibition at London’s Hornimann Museum held promise until a little research revealed its sanitised ‘family friendly’ slant. Caitlin Hackett’s drawings and paintings bring the ‘human’ and ‘animal’ together with the kind of force I find appealing: extreme.

Forms are contorted and subverted with real illustrative skill and an obvious love of victoriana.