Journey (2013)
A visual diary of a journey into the unknown, made during an artist residency at the University of Calgary.
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.
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Sand paperweight
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Horseshoe crab shell
Swirled glass paperweight
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
Large ammonite
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
Victorian wooden spinning top
Flint nodule creature
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
Fossilised megladon tooth
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
1920s porcelain mermaid
Ship in a Chanel bottle
Bronze female torso
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
Polished lapis lazuli
Fossilised sea anemone
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
A pair of painted lead giraffes
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Carved hare on burr
Crystal Palace paperweight
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
Vine knot
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
Victorian sawfish bill
Driftwood from Andalucia
Fossilised conch seashell
Coral mounted on marble
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Plot
The crowd watches as she walks forward and unthreads a pale rose. Its thornless stem, shaven into meek concave depressions, fits her fingers.
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.
A walk in the woods (2016)
This conversation between Sarah Gillett and the writer Amy Lay-Pettifer digs deeper into the artist’s relationship with Paolo Uccello’s painting The Hunt in the Forest (1470) and her wider art practice.