
Many hands make lightwork (2021)
Fantastical Minecraft night time experience inspired by the lives, loves and fates of Rockingham Castle’s female inhabitants throughout history.
Investigating the life of things across space and time
Installation, textiles, objects, drawing and audio by Sarah Gillett
The flimsy copy appears in the exhibition The Howse Shal be Preserved, Rockingham Castle. Commissioned by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, 2020-2021
Fantastical Minecraft night time experience inspired by the lives, loves and fates of Rockingham Castle’s female inhabitants throughout history.
Rewrite of Clara H. Scott’s 1895 hymn, Open my eyes, that I may see , a favourite opening anthem for seances at Rockingham Castle in the 1930s. My version emphasises the house as a haunted body.
Inspired by the lives of women at Rockingham Castle and their resonance in history, literature and spirituality, this web-based artwork takes the form of a sleeping ghostly female figure and explores an interior world where memory, dreams and shadows reign.
He is a red man all over, everyone can smell it. Even through the jasmine oil I apply so liberally before each shave he reeks of rusty iron and musk like the heavy gate to the bull’s field that was left open last year. I prattle on about the weather and tug my comb through his beard with my fingers crossed. Every time I snag on a knot I wince, afraid by the size of his huge hairy fists and the bulk of him sprawled across my biggest chair.
It is late when I see you moving into the flat above the pub opposite. Must be past 11, because I hear the doors swinging open, hot blue noise gulping for air.
Anachronistic pixelated images created on the ancient matrix of the loom. Interventions into vintage needleworks, cut and reworked into ruinous tapestries.
Sarah Gillett is an artist and writer from Lancashire, UK.
She currently lives in London.