SHUSTER + MOSELEY

Both artists, in very different ways, delve into secret worlds, whether it be the light that emanates from the universe or the endless mysteries of our dream worlds. Both tackle subjects that affect everyone of us independently of any political or social allegiance. It is particularly apt that in our highly fractured ‘global village’, both these creators concern themselves with subjects that stand well outside our daily concerns.

‘Do not be afraid of the brilliant lights—luminous and clear, sharp and bright. Recognise them as wisdom and let your mind rest in a state of non-action. If you recognise the lights as the natural radiance of your own mind, all the forms, lights and rays will merge with you’ (Tibetan Book of the Dead)

Although always very formally different, the artist’s constant aim is to enable the viewer to have a transformative and meditative experience as the mysteries of light and its direct reference to the cosmos insinuates itself into our consciousness.

The immersive installation is called Cinema of the Inner Eye and it’s been created by appropriating techniques used in cinema and telescopy where light is projected through a series of optically coated prisms and lenses. The artist’s use suspended glass to mediate light in precise constellations to ‘paint’ with the resulting spectrality thereby creating fascinating forms made with pure light.

The other two works entitled, Opened onto the Inside of a Star and Horizon of the Day and Night (Monolith i.ii.96 degrees) are large glass sculptures which are very different in shape and are displayed in normal daylight. They will stand alone in the gallery’s main space. The former is made through cutting and grinding precise angles into the sides and corners of panels of glass that are then bonded together, thus creating seamless glass geometries which embody a pure optical interface.

The Horizon of Day and Night sculptures are glass monoliths which are derived from geometric surveys of megalithic stone circles which orientate us to the play of stellar and solar lights on the horizon.