Featured Image: Meagan Streader, Slight, 2022. Courtesy: the artist and MARS Gallery.

Through layered constructions of illuminated coloured perspex, This space of vibration refines Meagan Streader’s investigations into the shifting and unstable nature of perception. This new suite of wall-mounted and free-standing sculptures expand on her previous explorations into colour, optics and light phenomena, and reference her large-scale immersive light installations.

Streader’s work considers how we perceive and respond to light and colour within spatial contexts. They have a quality that is both vibrant and ethereal. Colour, light and darkness are combined to create poetic illuminations and illusory textures. The works blend energised elements to create a vivid liveliness and atmospheric reverberation, creating illusions of the infinite through linear repetition.

This space of vibration alludes to realms that are elusive and imaginary. Streader’s works communicate a personal sensitivity and affinity with light and space. Her enquiries into colour and light examine emotional transformations and psychological excesses. In these new works, Streader attempts to create a shared experience of warmth and collective energy through the dissolution of bodies and architectural boundaries in the darkness.

Opening night: 6 August, 5 – 7pm