FRACTURE: DIFFERENCES by Shannon McGrath & Marcus Piper at Australian Design Centre.

The exhibition FRACTURE: DIFFERENCES is a visual conversation between architectural photographer Shannon McGrath and digital craftsperson Marcus Piper that explores the interplay of light in abstract spatial environments.

For the past 15 years interior and architectural photographer Shannon McGrath has been making a body of work titled Fracture – exploring light, space and the way the body experiences an environment. In a direct response – digital craftsperson Marcus Piper has applied a personal approach to McGrath’s work based on two decades of exploration into the way analogue and digital blend with an industrial approach to graphic design, something he titles Differences.

The works of Shannon McGrath and Marcus Piper explore the interplay of light in abstract spatial environments. Subtle shifts of colour across a monochrome palette are a result of the complexities of each artist’s material process.

McGrath works in photography, manipulating space and light to capture images that look like they are altered in post, but are actually a literal capture of what the camera “sees” in that moment, never to be replicated. These reinterpreted light spaces invite the viewer to enter their imagination and investigate a subconscious ambience in a lived experience.

Piper’s work is both a response to McGrath’s work, and also the continuation of his experimentation over many years with digital craft. These images are digitally created but also hand drawn, constructed in the moment using complex repetitions of simple actions that are, like McGrath’s work, never to be replicated.

Printed on aluminium, the works in the exhibition are lit with fluorescent tubes, drawing the viewer into a dialogue between light, shape and space.

FRACTURE: DIFFERENCES runs from the 17th of August until 27th of September 2017 at Australian Design Centre, Sydney.

[Images courtesy of Marcus Piper. Photography by Shannon McGrath.]