Siren show at Hull Ferens Art Gallery features ancient Greek vase
Maddie Morris, the artist behind the exhibition, was inspired by James Herbert Draper's painting of Ulysses and the Sirens, which dates from 1909 and is in the Ferens' collection.She used this as a starting point to explore gender and LGBT narratives."In the painting, Ulysses is tied to the mast of a boat and there are these female sirens singing while the other men on the boat looked scared, angry and even disgusted," she said."There's almost a line going down the middle and when the women are reaching out, the men are pulling away."I thought about what the women could have been saying that made the men want to distance themselves and it made me think a lot about the narratives of LGBT people and how challenging they can be for a lot of audiences."
She added: "Art is able to tell so many different stories and I hope I'm able to do the same thing."The exhibition also features works by the Pre-Raphaelite artists John William Waterhouse, Evelyn De Morgan and Edward Burne-Jones.Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
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