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
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
White Ermine Moth Mezzotint engraving, 2025 Printed on 300gsm Arches Moulin du Gué 28 x 38 cm (Plate 15.5 x 21.5 cm) Edition 40, 4 APs, PP, HC
A Thousand Goodbyes, 2024
Mezzotint
60 x 91 cms (23.62 x 35.83 ins)
Printed on Arches Moulin du Gue
Nut-tree Tussock, 2024
Mezzotint35 x 28 cm
Edition 30
Printed on Moulin dú Gue
2024
Mezzotint
50 x 63 cms (19.68 x 24.80 ins)
Edition 30
Printed on Moulin dú Gue
2024
Mezzotint
23.5 x 40 cms (9.25 x 15.75 ins)
Edition 30
Printed on Moulin dú Gue
2024 Mezzotint Size: 43 x 43 cm Edition 30 Printed on Moulin dú Gue
2024 Mezzotint Print Size: 30 x 30 cm Paper Size: 40 x 40cm Edition 30 Printed on Moulin dú Gue
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