‘Thomas Sharpe's version of Manet's Olympia recalls drawings Dennis Nilsen made in jail. Handshake With Nilsen takes one of these and superimposes the face of actress Sherilyn Fenn (of Twin Peaks) repeating poses of Marilyn Monroe. Does the result, an ambivalently sexed figure, alive or dead, its face enlarged above with toy dogs' noses, refer obliquely to the smell in Nilsen's flat?’
[LESS]‘Thomas Sharpe's version of Manet's Olympia recalls drawings Dennis Nilsen made in jail. Handshake With Nilsen takes one of these and superimposes the face of actress Sherilyn Fenn (of Twin Peaks) repeating poses of Marilyn Monroe. Does the result, an ambivalently sexed figure, alive or dead, its face enlarged above with toy dogs' noses, refer obliquely to the smell in Nilsen's flat?’
