A Ruthin Craft Centre touring exhibition.
The primary elements and focus of Rhian’s practice consists of capturing light and shadow. It is a subject of creative imagination where her artistic process involves translating and developing personal observations of silent, transient moments; the play of light and shadow within architectural spaces or a reflection projected on to a pane of glass. Incorporating photographic research, drawing and expanding further she captures these fleeting moments and uses them as a basis to develop into a body of work.
Exploring glass’s inherent ability to transmit and absorb light, her submitted installation Captured Moments, presents a series of twelve individual pieces capturing shadows and refracting light. Using a rectangle form in various aspects with its diverse metaphorical references, the pieces direct the viewer and set the context, constructing a statement and focusing on a subject. Created from highly polished clear, optical glass, secured and fixed as part of a CNC milled wooden box structure, the pieces are lit individually with an LED. The ambience and transience of shadows in intentional stillness demonstrates glass’ fundamental and simple capabilities as a material, which often tends to go unnoticed.
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