Material Revival: Sarah Gillespie

Sarah Gillespie

Sarah with some of her thesis work from her 2014 MFA at SIUE.

Check out her fabulous website here.

Sarah is new to the collaboration group and was invited in part because she was a student of Laura Strand's and also worked briefly at Pat's studio.

Her work is close to Pat's heart--she is a farm girl working to eradicate invasive plants on her family's farm and makes work reflecting those beliefs.

This piece is a favorite of Pat's from Sarah's thesis show at SIUE.

Invasions
Garlic Mustard and Multiflora Rose: 39°10'22.46"N, 87°51'5.41"W
Mixed Media on Paper | 55.5" x 79" | 2013

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Material Revival renews and celebrates a collaboration, begun 4 years ago for Innovations 9, between friends and colleagues who share a student/teacher/mentor relationship and who strive for a collective conversation that will take them out of their comfort zones to expand how they work conceptually, materially and how they think about their work. Erin Cork Woolfolk, Jo Stealey, Laura Strand, Erin Vigneau Dimick, and curator Pat Vivod are joined this year by new member Sarah Gillespie in the challenge to create inspired new bodies of work by integrating the shared materials from each other’s studios into their own work.

Innovations in Textiles is many events scattered over more than 15 gallery exhibits bringing artists from outside the area, artist talks, and workshops.

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