Meagan Streader: Shadow-makers

Shadow-makers presents a new body of work by Meagan Streader, developed during her residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris earlier this year. Intersecting art, architecture and design, this exhibition continues Streader’s inquiries into the transformative potential of light. Working with copper, glass, LEDs and rudimentary electrical circuits, the exhibition explores states of connection and balance through a series of suspended mobiles and wall-based sculptures. Within each work, illuminated elements are held in delicate equilibrium – a slight movement can interrupt the flow of electricity, or reinstate it. Light, reflection and shadow extend each construction into the room, shifting as viewers move around each piece. Streader’s restrained sculptures honour the forms, ideas and legacies of a lineage of female pioneers whose spatial interventions pushed the boundaries of architectural discourse.