After 12 wonderful years at Reotahi Rd, we are moving house to an address closer to town. Our new address is 4 Sanctuary Park Lane, Waikaraka. While not strictly part of Whangarei Heads it is just off Whangarei Heads Road so I will still participate in the annual Whangarei Heads Arts Trail. I hope my regular visitors will be able to find me in my soon-to-be built studio... (although I expect it won't be ready for this seasons Trail... for this year my work will be displayed elsewhere on the property). To find us, take Whangarei Heads road to Waikaraka, then Glengarry Lane then right into Sanctuary Park Lane.
At art school I became interested in the relationships between objects, and between light and space. Without space light would have no relevance... It has always fascinated me that light can carry an image beyond an abject and re-portray it upon any reflective surface. Sitting on a couch the other day, I saw a reflection outside the room on a sheet of glass of something inside the room and around the corner... how, I wondered did it get out there...? Every moment of every day, light is always actively conveying images; carrying the meaning of things beyond the object and across the intervening space. By placing reflective surfaces in relation to art pieces, the intervening space is 'activated' by light.
Even as a small child I loved the dynamic effects of light; the way it carries images across the intervening space to make reflections on glossy surfaces in places that made me wonder how it got there... my most memorable experience of art was the work of Adolf Luther, an exhibition we saw in Athens. He had made light his subject in a way that gave me a truly sublime experience;
Using convex and concave mirrored surfaces he created a dynamic space in which the viewer was enveloped in a surreal world of their own (distorted) reflections swirling about between them and the art-piece. These in-air 'reflections' were subtle and elusive, and only visible when the viewer's eyes relaxed into the range required, giving an experience similar to 3D movies, without the silly glasses. It was amazing... to be in the art-piece, part of it; the active cause of it, was sublime. |