- Venue
- APT Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Ends
- Saturday, April 12, 2025
- Address
- Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Contemporary British Painting
Darkness Visible 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 and film to examine wider social and philosophical concepts.
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
Graham Crowley: Dark Arc 2, oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm, 2021
In the gallery entrance a mirrored installation by Davis & Hibbs bounces a fragmented version of us back to ourselves. This work will be activated through live performance and music at the closing event. In 2023 John Moores Painting Prize winner Graham Crowley’s work, an acid yellow light floods into the shadows of an empty workshop. Casper White, Natalie Dowse, Donna Mclean and Geraldine Swayne hold momentarily still in paint the movie and Tik Tok images we consume on illuminated screens. In Tucker’s own painting a ghostly photograph from the artist’s disrupted heritage is viewed through a diasporic lens. Anne-Marie Creamer’s film ‘Dear Friend, I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice’, commissioned by the Sir John Soane Museum, narrating the haunting, shadowed presence of a lost love, will have a dedicated showing followed by an artist Q & A.
Judith Tucker, from Strandkorb series
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.
