Opening Saturday 20th June 2 – 5pm. At 3pm I’ll be in conversation with Lara Goodband, Curator of Contemporary Art at RAMM, Exeter. This will be followed by a demonstration mezzotint printing by master printer Simon Marsh
“Kestle Barton is pleased to present ‘Birded and Eyed’, a second solo exhibition by Sarah gillespie, following her exhibition here in 2020. the show brings together new works in mezzotint and drawing, developed through her close observation of the woods, meadows and night-life around both Kestle Barton and her hoke in Devon.
Taking its title from a line by the poet Jane Hirshfield, the exhibition reflects Gillespie’s sustained attention to mthe quieter, often overlooked presence of the natural world. Moths emerge from dark, richly worked surfaces, their deliate markings rendered with precision yet retaining a sense of movement and impermanence.”
