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.
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
Fossilised megladon tooth
Victorian wooden spinning top
Carved hare on burr
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
Horseshoe crab shell
Fossilised conch seashell
Victorian sawfish bill
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
1920s porcelain mermaid
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
Ship in a Chanel bottle
Polished lapis lazuli
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
Bronze female torso
Swirled glass paperweight
Sand paperweight
Vine knot
A pair of painted lead giraffes
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
Crystal Palace paperweight
Coral mounted on marble
Large ammonite
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
Flint nodule creature
Fossilised sea anemone
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Driftwood from Andalucia
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
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