Light Black

Three Contemporary Australian Craftspersons

Light Black, an exhibition exploring the links between art and science, features three accomplished mid-career Australian craft practioners - Robin Best, Catherine Truman, and Sue Lorraine - as part of Ancient Future - Australian Arts Festival 2003.

All three artists have national and international profiles and are critically acclaimed for their refined technical execution. Although highly individual, the artists are connected by the extensive research that forms the basis of their ideas and the work they create. Seen together, their work provides insight into their exploration of the extensive link between art and science.

Light Black is a celebration of the capacity for imagination, sensitivity and craftsmanship skills to communicate complex ideas, elicit strange emotions and to stimulate new appreciation of the "everyday". The works, made from clay, steel, and wood, metaphorically  "shed light on black" as they explore how science enlightens the darkness of the unknown.

Since the early 1970s, the National Museum of Art in Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, have actively sought to present new craft trends. They selected Light Black because of the artists’ unconventional approach to design with the use of traditional materials and techniques. 

The exhibition is a joint project of the Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design Centre and Asialink Centre (as part of the Australia Japan Foundation exhibitions initiative) in partnership with the National Museum of Art in Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art Kyoto. Light Black, shown at the National Museum of Art in Tokyo in June this year, was the first Australian exhibition to be invited to the prestigious museum in over two decades.

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