Through a glass, darkly (2020)
Podcast with Sarah Gillett talking about her practice and including audio works recorded for Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts.
Collecting
Things on the windowsill,
amongst books,
on the mantelpiece,
in a jewellery box,
on the desk,
in a wide flat bowl,
in a glass cabinet,
hanging in the studio.
Driftwood from Andalucia
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
Flint nodule creature
Victorian wooden spinning top
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
Victorian sawfish bill
Crystal Palace paperweight
Swirled glass paperweight
Horseshoe crab shell
Ship in a Chanel bottle
Fossilised conch seashell
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
Large ammonite
Sand paperweight
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Polished lapis lazuli
Carved hare on burr
Bronze female torso
Vine knot
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
Fossilised megladon tooth
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
A pair of painted lead giraffes
Fossilised sea anemone
Coral mounted on marble
1920s porcelain mermaid
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
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Radar Beach
Joseph reaches down and picks up a shell. He hands it to the boy, who is dragging a red plastic bucket across the sand. “Here. What about this one?”
Bill assesses the offering intently. “No Daddy,” he says firmly, “It’s broken here, see.”
Black night (1996)
The first audio work I made, this chant references the moors where I grew up and the mythologies embedded in this landscape.
Cold Dish
Dispatch by decapitation:
A heavy-spined knife
to sever her neck,
slit open her belly, belly.
Remove the guts quickly
and set aside her head,
fins swimming back to the sea;
mouth gasping, gasping.