Sarah Gillespie

Sarah’s exquisite mezzotint engravings, silverpoint drawings and artists book, are a testament to her deep concern for the natural world. This exhibition has given impetus to an important new body of work which we are privileged to show, emphasising the much maligned moth’s extraordinary delicate beauty, whilst highlighting the vital role the species play as a necessary food source for a myriad amphibians and birds.

Sarah explained that she wasn’t looking for moths when she started drawing them around ten years ago: “they came and found me. Their numbers are in appalling decline but for me their presence has become ever more insistent. I see in their short lives a glory that comes from participation in the whole complex, entangled fabric of life, speaking to us urgently of the dark, of the earth, of all it is we cannot see. That which we know and love, we are far less inclined to destroy, and it is at the edge of a wing that love waits.”

We are thrilled to be stocking MOTH by Sarah Gillespie - A 60-page artist’s book, published by The Letter Press in a limited edition of 300, with each copy numbered and signed by the artist. Moth contains extraordinary reproductions of all the moth mezzotints, and a new poem from Alice Oswald.

Designed and typeset in Jenson by Kevin Mount and printed on Symbol Tatami 170 gsm paper, with a wrap-around jacket. The book is £50 to include P&P to any UK address. For overseas orders please contact georgie@greenhillarts.co.uk