102 LIGHT + TECH
SEARCH for ‘light artist’ on the internet and a whole roster of predominantly male faces will pop up. And the first woman to appear turns out to be an abstract artist anyway, such is the inexactitude of algorithms. The Collected Light exhibition is therefore a significant, albeit modest, step to redressing the gender balance. Last November, it marked the debut of a permanent collection of women light artists from the UK and Europe. Held at the SoShiro gallery in Marylebone, London, it will now move to Milan with the addition of several more artists, to be shown during Euroluce, the international lighting exhibition, this April.
The exhibition was organised by Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton, together Light Collective, a UK-based lighting consultancy that has worked all over the world with projects that include film-making, art, events, community events, light activism, architectural design and education. In 2019, Light Collective launched the global project ‘Women in Lighting’, creating a huge community of women around the world working with light within architecture, art and other sectors. This particular exhibition came about as an extension of their upcoming book of the same name as the exhibition, featuring more than 40 female light artists. Each artwork in the SoShiro gallery, a Georgian townhouse, had its own dedicated room. The six artists featured have a widely varying range of light tools, from neon and film projections to LEDs and lenticular effects.
STARDUST: THE DEEP FIELD (LENTICULAR), 2018
Lauren Baker (UK)
Collected Light was held at the SoShiro Gallery in Marylebone, London, from 14-25 November 2022. It will be held with additional artists at Euroluce in Milan from 18–23 April
salonemilano.it/en/exhibitions/euroluce
The Collected Light exhibition and the Women in Lighting platform is supported by formalighting, a family-owned Italian architectural lighting designer and manufacturer
A six-image lenticular artwork backed by an LED light box is described by Baker as depicting ‘a galactic explosion of shooting stars and space matter’. Because of the way the lenticular lenses shift how the images are perceived, moving past the artwork brings it to life, ‘suggesting a celestial dance of explosion and implosion, separation
RIGHT: ROMAN SCOTT
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