Exhibitions, News
Exhibition: Sarah Gillespie ‘Underwing’
Image: Sarah Gillespie, Peach Blossom, 2024, plate 30 x 30cm, paper 40 x 40cm Mezzotint, Edition 30
SARAH GILLESPIE
UNDERWING
3–28 June 2024
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Private View Saturday 1 June (By invitation only)
12.30 – 2.30pm
Exhibition Open 3–28 June 2024
3 –28 June 2024
Thurs – 11.00 – 16.00
Fri – 11.00 – 16.00
Sat 8th, 15th, 22nd June – 11.00 – 14.00
and by appointment
This special exhibition, ‘Underwing’, includes new drawings and mezzotints by Sarah Gillespie and is the artist’s second solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery. Gillespie’s interest in moths and the luminous power of the mezzotint engraving to express their beauty and vulnerability is further explored alongside unique silverpoint and charcoal works on paper.
The titles themselves read like poetry: Peach Blossom; Advancing Tiger; Wounded Tiger; Nut-tree Tussock; A Thousand Goodbyes.
Her concerns as ever are entwined with the threat to natural habitats, in particular the watery world of Slapton Ley, near her home in Devon, where the sea threatens to encroach on a unique freshwater ecosystem.
Image: The copper mezzotint plate ‘Shimmer’, inked and ready for printing in the studio
A beautiful new hardback publication to coincide with Sarah Gillespie’s exhibition 'Birded and Eyed'. The book is bound in red buckram with foreword by Katharine Martin, curator at the V&A, essays and field notes by Sarah Gillespie.
Mezzotint, Paper 51.5 x 50 cm, Plate 40 x 40cm, Edition 30, Unframed
Mezzotint Engraving, Image 20 x 20 cm (7.87 x 7.87 in), Paper 30 x 30.5cm, Edition 20, Published 2026, Unframed
Mezzotint, Plate 20 x 14.5cm, Edition 25, Published 2026, Unframed
Mezzotint, Paper 51.5 x 50 cm, Plate 40 x 40 cm, Edition 30, Unframed
Mezzotint, Paper 72 x 102cm, Plate 61 x 91cm, Edition 25, Published 2025
Mezzotint, Plate 40 x 40cm, Paper 51.5 x 50cm, Edition 25, Published 2025
Mezzotint Plate Size 17.5 x 12.5cm / 7 x 5ins Paper size 32 x 25cm / 12.5 x 10ins Printed on a warm black in on 370sgm Arches Moulin du Gué paper Edition 25
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