DANIEL CROOKS IN SHADOWPLAY - LAKE MACQUARIE CITY ART GALLERY
9 May 2008
SHADOWPLAY
9 May – 22 June 2008
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
curated by Meryl Ryan
Daniel Crooks, Bill Henson, Jess MacNeil, Robert Owen, Niomi Sands, Darren Siwes, Hossein Valamanesh
As a harbinger of menace, a signifier of memory, or as the slippery subject of wonderment, the shadow offers countless poetic and dramatic encounters. These artists share a fascination for the play of light and its partnered dark.
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Daniel Crooks scrutinises the literal sequence of still moments – slices of time – that create movement. By studying the ‘patterns’of life, the physics of motion and perspective, the games of light and shadow, he acknowledges how the many inscrutable variables construct and intensify what we perceive as the real world.
Much of his work to date has concentrated on large-scale subjects, particularly the urban landscape. In this series however, he isolates a single object, both simple and complex in its unique suspended state, and works a spellbinding poetic tension using light, shade and the promise of irrevocable change.
9 May – 22 June 2008
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
curated by Meryl Ryan
Daniel Crooks, Bill Henson, Jess MacNeil, Robert Owen, Niomi Sands, Darren Siwes, Hossein Valamanesh
As a harbinger of menace, a signifier of memory, or as the slippery subject of wonderment, the shadow offers countless poetic and dramatic encounters. These artists share a fascination for the play of light and its partnered dark.
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Daniel Crooks scrutinises the literal sequence of still moments – slices of time – that create movement. By studying the ‘patterns’of life, the physics of motion and perspective, the games of light and shadow, he acknowledges how the many inscrutable variables construct and intensify what we perceive as the real world.
Much of his work to date has concentrated on large-scale subjects, particularly the urban landscape. In this series however, he isolates a single object, both simple and complex in its unique suspended state, and works a spellbinding poetic tension using light, shade and the promise of irrevocable change.
