Artist

Sadie Hennessy

Sadie Hennessy is an artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Sadie Hennessy’s screenprints hit like a text alert at 2 a.m., sharp, urgent, impossible to ignore. She turns everyday disasters into bold, black-and-white images that feel both personal and public, like the backseat photo of a fender-bender blown up poster-size. Her 2010 series Accident and Emergency strip the chaos to its visual bones, using clean lines to frame things that usually blur past us in a flash of panic.

If you’ve ever stared at a dented door and thought, “That looks like art now,” her prints are the reason.

Works by Sadie Hennessy

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.