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Sarah Gillespie & Amy-Jane Blackhall – National Portrait Gallery Acquisition
Sarah Gillespie – Mezzotint of an Eye. Mezzotint, 2022, 15.7 cm x 20.7 cm. Gifted 2023
Sarah Gillespie & Amy-Jane Blackhall
Enter the National Portrait Gallery – Permanent Collection
Artists Sarah Gillespie, Amy-Jane Blackhall, Tristan Reid and Paul Kirkup were commissioned by Paul Cox, curator of the Reference Collection at the National Portrait Gallery, to contribute works on the theme of the ‘Process’.
Their contributions, (including Mezzontint of an Eye by Sarah Gillespie, pictured) have been acquired for the Permanent Collection of the National Portrait Gallery. They are currently on permanent display in Gallery 11 of the National Portrait Gallery and online as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s educational programme.
In a lovely addition to this story, the contributors, printmakers Amy-Jane Blackhall and Paul Kirkup both worked as printmakers at 107 Workshop, Melksham, with the late master printer Jack Shirreff.
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Sarah Gillespie will present a new exhibition with Rabley Gallery from June 1st, 2024.
View available works by Sarah Gillespie
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Amy-Jane Blackhall is one of Rabley Gallery’s feature artists at the upcoming Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
Detail of Sarah Gillespie’s original copper Mezzotint plate and tools for her recent commission for the National Portrait Gallery.
Opening Night of Making an Impression: Prints in Room 11, National Portrait Gallery. Featuring Sarah Gillespie, Amy-Jane Blackhall, Paul Kirkup & Tristan Reid.
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“The new galleries are stunning and it is a great honour to have been able to help them in this way.” – Sarah Gillespie
Medium: Mezzotint
Size: 17.50 x 12.50 cms (6.89 x 4.92 ins)
Paper Size: 24 x 19.50 cm
Edition of 20
Published 2019
2023
Photopolymer Gravure
Plate size 16 x 9cm, Paper size 25.5 x 18cm
Kozo paper
Edition 25
A Thousand Goodbyes, 2024
Mezzotint
60 x 91 cms (23.62 x 35.83 ins)
Printed on Arches Moulin du Gue
Medium: Mezzotint Printed bleed edged on Arches Moulin du Gué. Size: 49.5 x 74 cm Edition 30 2022
Medium: Mezzotint. 'Sempiternal' is printed deckle edge to edge, on a hand made roundel. Size: 39.5 x 39.5 cms (15.55 x 15.55 ins) Edition of 20 Published 2021
2025 Mezzotint Plate 40 x 40cm Paper 51.5 x 50cm Edition 25
Medium: Mezzotint
Size: Paper 19.5 x 24cm
Edition of 20
Published 2020
Series: 'From Another Place'
Medium: Photopolymer Gravure
Size: 41.00 x 22.00 cms (16.14 x 8.66 ins)
2021
Edition 35
Sarah Gillespie - MOTH ISBN 978-1-9163664-2-8 Mezzotints by Sarah Gillespie Introduced by Mark Cocker With a Poem by Alice Oswald Photographs: Kate Mount Illustrated. 63 pages. Postage: £5 (incl. in listed price)
Medium: Mezzotint
Plate Size 16 x 16cm
Paper Size 21 x 21cm
Edition of 20
Published 2023
Printed on Aquari Hand Made Paper
Medium: Mezzotint
Plate Size 16 x 16cm
Paper Size 21 x 21cm
Edition of 5
Published 2023
Printed on Aquari Handmade Paper
Medium: Mezzotint Printed on Arches Moulin du Gué. Size: 91 x 61 cm Edition 20. 5AP's aside from the edition 2022.
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