Cloud chorus (2010)
A collage audio piece recorded live on my phone at a gathering in a flat in Hackney. I handed out sections of a landscape poem that I had written to the group of women who had assembled and we sat on the floor in a circle.
Anxious Chronicles
Time is collapsing. The past and the future are redrawn in the present.
Postcard interventions (original postcards dated 1897-now, collage, paint, pencil, thread)
Ongoing series by Sarah Gillett
Anxious Chronicles gallery
You can’t hold your breath forever (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Stone fishing (2020)
antique postcard with etching, collage and thread; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Burn 2017)
vintage postcard collage; 146mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Valley of the Dolls (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Hollow moon (2019)
antique postcard (1905) with drawing, paint and collage; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Shift (2014)
vintage postcard collage; 146mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Clinging to the moon (2020)
vintage postcard with collage and drawing; 187mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Shaft (2019)
antique postcard with enamel; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Scratching the atmosphere (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
My land (2015)
antique postcard collage; 89mm x 138mm; © Sarah Gillett
Night after night how strange it seems (2019)
antique postcard with drawing, enamel and collage; 87mm x 138mm; © Sarah Gillett
Cloaks on the lawn (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
I love TV (2014)
vintage postcard collage; 150mm x 105mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The Wind Waker (2016)
vintage postcard collage; 138mm x 86mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Skadi (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Caryatid (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 87mm x 138mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Through a glass, darkly (2020)
antique postcard with cut and enamel; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
11.30am, 29 May 1968, Islay Hotel, Tenby, Pembrokeshire (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 140mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
My heart spills out of my mouth (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 90mm x 146mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Palm Bay, Cliftonville (2014)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
And the rain fell in glittering shivers (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 140mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The clasp (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 138mm x 86mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Master rock (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 145mm x 105mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Anxious Chronicles III (2016)
antique postcard collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The green glass dress (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 146mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Event horizon (2019)
antique postcard (1904) with enamel, drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Touch is the feeling that nothing is safe (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Her voice was like the black plumage of a post apocalyptic dawn (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 146mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Nimue (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 110mm x 148mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Rough Sea, Brighton (2015)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The velvet hung heavy from her body (2016)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 87mm x 138mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Monument (2016)
antique postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Needles (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Anxious chronicles II (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Cape (2015)
antique postcard collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Fruit salad (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Anxious chronicles I (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Court of Honour (2020)
antique postcard with enamel and drawing; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Paper white solitude (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Glen o’ Weeping (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 138mm x 86mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Artist Rock (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 100mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Tulip (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 140mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Birth (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Little Lives (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
She threw her hair over the rocks as a bridge for him to walk over (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 140mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
She streamed down the river to the sea (2015)
antique postcard collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Snip snip she left her hair where it fell (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 140mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Borrowed scenery (2019)
antique postcard (1908) with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams (2019)
antique postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
No one had ever looked underneath (2015)
vintage postcard with collage and ink; 148mm x 95mm; © Sarah Gillett
As if motion would keep her safe (2015)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 87mm x 138mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The perfect bed (2019)
antique postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Appennino (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The softwares are virtually real (2014)
vintage postcard (1972) with monoprint, drawing and collage; 140mm x 89mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The painted mountain (2016)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
She liked living alone (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 110mm x 150mm;
© Sarah Gillett
No one remembered how long it had been there (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
There is Here now (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 105mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Moon surfing (2015)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 145mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Head over hills (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 140mm x 84mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Static interference (2020)
antique postcard with textile, print and drawing; 138mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Falls at Trentham (2019)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 87mm x 138mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Newgate Gap & Bridge, Cliftonville II (2014)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Wandtunnel (2015)
antique postcard with collage and ink; 148mm x 100mm; © Sarah Gillett
Newgate Gap & Bridge, Cliftonville (2014)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 87mm x 138mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Lulworth Cove (2014)
vintage postcard with monoprint, drawing and collage; 154mm x 116mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The occluded way (2019)
antique postcard (1905), NASA archive postcard (2017) and collage; 143mm x 91mm; © Sarah Gillett
Translucent planes of colour shuffled in the breeze (2016)
vintage postcard with drawing and collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Splash mountain (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
The Rise and Fall of the Tide (2014)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 100mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Bloom in Medusa (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 148mm x 110mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Congregation (2020)
vintage postcard with collage, drawing and thread; 187mm x 87mm; © Sarah Gillett
Marine mountain (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 138mm x 87mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Sherbet fizzed like wet rose petals on her tongue (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 105mm x 148mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Icarus (2014)
vintage postcard collage; 105mm x 148mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Tenby Promenade (2015)
vintage postcard collage, drawing; 146mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Breathing tunnel (2015)
vintage postcard collage; 140mm x 90mm;
© Sarah Gillett
Arizona meteorite (2015)
antique postcard collage; 138mm x 86mm;
© Sarah Gillett
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Mapping an itinerant island (2009)
Collaboration between Sarah Gillett and Amy Lay-Pettifer exploring the inhabitants and topography of Northland.
Big Game Country (2016)
Uganda is hot and dark. Late into the December night we sit on planks in the back of a stripped out land rover. We are driven faster than our bodies would like, the speed rattling my bones, teeth, brain, recording equipment.