“Land Light Project #1 / after the burn”
Prue Crome
19 Mar → 10 Apr 2010

Land Light Project #1 is an immersive projection-based work investigating changes in the colour and quality of light refraction in a landscape. The bushfires on the 7th February 2009 stripped a landscape of its light filters leaving only charcoal stems and exposed earth. The gallery walls will be bathed in the light of the forest in its slow metamorphosis from dull grey tones through to soft lighter greens. Monthly photographic documentation of a site delivered the subtleties of regeneration, bringing the return of colour, birdsong, movement and dappled light.

The underlying philosophy driving my practice is encapsulated in this quote from The Creative Mind by Henri Bergson: ‘The matter and life which fill the world are equally within us; the forces which work in all things we feel within ourselves; whatever may be the inner essence of what is and what is done, we are of that essence.’

Prue Crome has been a practicing artist for 20 years. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in 2008 at RMIT University. Crome’s interest lies in the temporal and conditional nature of perception. Through her installations she uses the manipulation of light and colour to heighten the viewer’s experience and awareness of the interrelationship between themselves, objects, time and space.