Catherine Truman, White Leaf, 2018, L280xW90xD60mm, Paper and cotton compound, thermoplastic, steel. Photo: Grant Hancock

The Visible Light Project– experiments in light and perception

Catherine Truman

Thu 12 September, 6-7pm

at 

RMIT University

445 Swanston St
Building 80, Level 1, Room 2
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Catherine Truman. White Leaf. Brooch. Paper and cotton compound, thermoplastic, steel. 2018. L280xW90xD60mm. Photo: Gant Hancock

An intimate, experimental performative event that considers the mutable boundaries between observer and maker, plant and human, artist and scientist. The Visible Light Project is a multi-disciplinary research project that crosses the boundaries between botany, ophthalmology and art and explores the absence, transition, processing and observation of light.
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Two key residencies underpin this project undertaken at the Ophthalmic Imaging Clinics, Flinders University and the State Herbarium, Botanic Gardens of South Australia. These residencies, considered light as a key ingredient for vision, perception and growth and investigated the ways that plants and the human eye process light into energy.

This project is a part of the 2019 SPEAKER Artist talks series run by RMIT Intersect.

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia.

Catherine Truman. White Leaf. Brooch. Paper and cotton compound, thermoplastic, steel. 2018. L280xW90xD60mm. Photo: Gant Hancock

(ABOUT THE ARTIST)
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Catherine Truman is an established contemporary jeweller and object-maker working across the disciplines of art and science. She is co-founder of Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide South Australia where she currently lives and works. Truman’s practice is renowned for its diversity and incorporates contemporary jewellery, objects, digital image and film installation with a focus upon the parallels between artistic process and scientific method. She is currently visiting scholar at the Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research, School of Medicine, Flinders University, and artist in residence at The State Herbarium of South Australia undertaking a project titled The Visible Light Project: experiments in light and vision.