Sarah Gillespie makes mezzotint prints, an old, slow and painstaking method that produces unique velvet blacks and soft tones. Her work encourages us to refocus our gaze toward the everyday and the overlooked. Sarah’s works based on drawings of moths, insects and occasionally landscapes, have a ghostly quality, speak a little of the night, and are hugely effective at capturing something about their subjects’ struggles. Mezzotint, it seems, is perfect for achieving this.
