Ethel Grimbaldeston and She speaks to me at night (2008)
Stop motion animation made on my parents’ kitchen table in Lancashire and on the floor of an artist’s clapboard house in Los Angeles.
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
Victorian sawfish bill
Bronze female torso
Polished lapis lazuli
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
Carved hare on burr
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Swirled glass paperweight
Fossilised sea anemone
1920s porcelain mermaid
A pair of painted lead giraffes
Crystal Palace paperweight
Fossilised conch seashell
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
Large ammonite
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
Vine knot
Sand paperweight
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
Ship in a Chanel bottle
Victorian wooden spinning top
Coral mounted on marble
Horseshoe crab shell
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
Fossilised megladon tooth
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
Flint nodule creature
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Mapping an itinerant island (2009)
Collaboration between Sarah Gillett and Amy Lay-Pettifer exploring the inhabitants and topography of Northland.
Silk (2016)
This work started as an old needlepoint completed by an unknown sewer, that I unpicked, leaving only these trees intact. It was a way for me to look at the stage without the players.
Through a glass, darkly (2020)
Podcast with Sarah Gillett talking about her practice and including audio works recorded for Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts.