‘Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere’ considers the work of contemporary artists who employ light and related technologies, and examines their practice in relation to artistic precedents. Historically, artists invoked light’s symbolic power and, from the late-19th century, explored its fleeting optical effects. In the 1920s and 1930s László Moholy-Nagy and his contemporaries equated electric light with Modernist ideals while, in the 1960s and 1970s, Minimalist and Conceptual artists, including Dan Flavin and Bruce Nauman, experimented with fluorescence. Light play, which coincides with the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, features artworks by artists who use light as a medium in its own right, to create their work or its effects, or to explore socio-political concerns. Artists include Lincoln Austin, Marian Drew, Nicholas Folland, Tim Maguire, and Jacky Redgate, among others.
Curator: Samantha Littley
OPENING EVENT: Friday 14 August 6.15 for 6.30 pm
CURATOR TOUR: Friday 14 August 5.00 – 6.00 pm
Image caption: Jacky Redgate
Light Throw (Mirrors) #4 2010-2011
Type C photograph (hand printed from original negative), facemounted to Perspex
