greg streak

Light Show (Curatorial brief)

Artists were asked to create work specifically for the show, each choosing to work within their own conceptual parameters and preferred mediums. The show includes work by Siemon Allen, Stephen Hobbs, Simon Jaques, Vaughn Sadie, Greg Streak, Bronwen Vaughan-Evans, Jeremy Wafer and James Webb.

The exhibition is a thoughtful look at light beyond its primary function, illumination. It explores light as both a formal and metaphorical device, asking the viewer to reflect on their physical and emotional relationship to objects, space and people, which are all at some point mediated by light, both natural and artificial.

Light not only defines how we read our immediate environment, but also makes it possible for us to assimilate information at an ever -increasing rate and thus develop an understanding of our wider context. In Light Show we are left considering our reliance upon present day technology, yet at the same time contemplating the redundancy of that which came before it. We are also shown the inability of light capturing devices, both still and moving, to reproduce all of what we see in nature, resulting in a distorted but equally beautiful rendering of a moment. The ordinary too is observed, but in a way that alludes to greater meaning beyond light as a physical medium.

This contemporary reading shows light not only as a functional medium, but one that acts as both muse and communicator, often concealing rather than illuminating, and perhaps unintentionally evoking a sense of melancholy and absence. Light at times becomes dark and lightness transforms into weight.