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Sarah Gillespie – A Lament for Bordered Gothic – Print Launch
Sarah Gillespie – A Lament for the Bordered Gothic (Detail). Mezzotint, 49.5 x 74 cm, Edition 30, 2022
“This a lament for all of our winged nocturnal neighbours and their gradual passing from our lives.” – Sarah Gillespie
Rabley Gallery is delighted to launch two new mezzotints by Sarah Gillespie of the Bordered Gothic Moth. This adds to the collection of 26 prints of moths currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection and further explores the artist’s interest in the luminous power of mezzotint engraving to express beauty and vulnerability.
Lament for the Bordered Gothic and Bordered Gothic (Small) were made in response her recent six month artist residency at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology. The Bordered Gothic moth (Heliophobus Reticulata) is critically endangered in the UK.
In the large scale mezzotint Lament for a Bordered Gothic, (49.5 x 74cm) the detail of the moths top wing pattern subtly contrasts with the softer underwings, emerging from an expansive plane of velvet darkness in the black background. The smaller study Bordered Gothic (Small) (20.5 x 20cm), draws us in with a casting light, framed by a paper border. Its modest scale does not lessen the image’s strong and beautiful presence.
Sarah Gillespie – A Lament for the Bordered Gothic. Mezzotint, 49.5 x 74 cm, Edition 30, 2022
Sarah Gillespie – Bordered Gothic (Small). Mezzotint, 27 x 27 cm, Edition 20, 2022
Sketches by Sarah Gillespie, beginning the process.
Wiping the copper plate in the studio after inking.
The mezzotint plate of A Lament for the Bordered Gothic, with the artist’s primary tools.
Short film depicting the process of printing A Lament for the Bordered Gothic, 2022.
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
Mezzotint, Printed on 300gsm Arches Moulin du Gué, Paper 28 x 38 cm, Plate 15.5 x 21.5 cm, Edition 40, 4 APs, PP, HC, Published 2025
Mezzotint Printed on Arches Moulin du Gue 60 x 91 cm Published 2024
Mezzotint, Printed on Moulin dú Gue, 35 x 28 cm, Edition 30, Published 2024
Mezzotint, Printed on Moulin dú Gue, 50 x 63 cm, Edition 30, Published 2024
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