The Architecture of Light
Suki + Hugh Gallery, Bungendore, 2018
The Architecture of Light
“Light is not like clay, you can’t form it with the hands, you can’t carve it away like wood, or chip it away like stone. We use light to illuminate other things but… light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation” - James Turrell
At once the illuminated and the illuminator, light is implicit in all that we perceive. Giving form and colour to the world around us it enables us to visually apprehend our physical environments. However, as part of its complexity as a tangible entity, light needs those same landscapes to be seen.
The landscapes in this body of work provide the framework for the depiction of light. They are the architecture that holds this ephemeral thing. And while the landscapes are rooted in Australia, the light knows no nationality. It moves freely through the atmosphere and across all the world’s geographies rendering the scenes universal.
