Darkness Visible, APT Gallery

Shadow Sculpture 34, oil on aluminium, 60 x 50cm, 2024

Darkness Visible, co-curated by Lesley Bunch, Gavin Maughfling, and Paula MacArthur, was first proposed by the late artist, lecturer and former Chair of Contemporary British Painting Judith Tucker. Exhibiting artists explore the potential of light and dark in painting, installation, performance, and film to examine wider social and philosophical concepts including the unseen, psyche, memory, otherness, loss, love, and the space between us.

Artists: Marius von Brasch, Lesley Bunch, Anne-Marie Creamer, Graham Crowley, Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Pippa Gatty, Paula MacArthur, Gavin Maughfling, Donna Mclean, Ruth Murray, Joe Packer, Hideatsu Shiba, Geraldine Swayne, Judith Tucker, Casper White, Joanna Whittle.

Events:

27 March 6-8pm: Private View
5 April 2-4pm: ‘On Shadows’, a public workshop led by Lesley Bunch exploring psychology, myth and aesthetics of shadows. Free entry. Bookings required, tickets available through Eventbrite.
9 April 6-8pm: Screening of Ann-Marie Creamer’s film ‘Dear Friend I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice’
13 April 2-4pm: Finissage with performance by movement artist Jamal Sterrett and composer for modular synths Ben Lancaster in response to the installation of Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs.