Fleet Light

Abstract

Fleet Light was my first exhibition at Stills, a leading Australian gallery (established 1991) representing artists working at the forefront of contemporary photo media practice. Significantly this was also my first show of exclusively digital lenticular prints, a process I first worked with in 2007. I consider this exhibition to be a major statement of both medium and concept; of this technically tricky distinctive medium with its elusive, shifting qualities, and its utilization in the the recreation of equally changeable lighting effects (as in auroae and mirages) and the optical nature of vision itself (such as afterimages). This show effectively links my Antarctica research with my ongoing interest in the colour theories of Johnnn von Goethe's, moving from atmospheric effects to optical effects, the latter that were to be further extended in the national touring exhibition Second Silence. This exhibition lead to further exhibitions at Stills and helped to reestablished my artistic reputation in Australia (further to the three major public shows I was invited to participate in between 1987 and 1999)