Gabriel Levine Brislin


is an artist & writer
based in Edinburgh


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Their Eyes Are On The Sparrow
(2021)

In 1962, Édith Piaf was booked to perform a string of shows at the Paris Olympia. This was to be her last engagement with the iconic venue that had played a vitally important role in the creation of her public image. ‘Their Eyes Are On The Sparrow’ considers these final performances through duelling perspectives: the singer herself, recounting the major events of her life, and her doctor, whose cautionary gaze observes and documents her declining health from the side of the stage.

Run of 60 risograph pamphlets.
Limited copies available through email: gabriel.levineb@gmail.com

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Hagiography
(2020)

A ten part sonnet cycle following the erratic narrative of ‘the Saint’, an archetypal yet anonymous figure of sin, piety and redemption. ‘Hagiography’ evolves through multiple conflicting voices and locations, all contained within the formal constraints of Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’.

Limited copies available through email: gabriel.levineb@gmail.com

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