Daniel Crooks: Structured Light
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‘One of the things I’m trying to do with my work is to offer another way of looking at the world.’
Naarm/Melbourne based artist Daniel Crooks has been commissioned to illuminate the National Gallery’s façade for the 2022 Enlighten Festival.
Held in the Gallery’s 40th anniversary year, Crooks’ project celebrates the design of the original National Gallery building by architect, Col Madigan. Using Madigan’s geometric language as a point of departure, Crooks transforms the Gallery façade through visual manipulations spanning geometry, perspective, colour and light. A score by Byron Scullin responds to Madigan’s brutalist architecture and sense of sacred geometry.
Daniel Crooks is part of The Balnaves Contemporary Series and is presented in partnership with Events ACT.
Curator: Elspeth Pitt, Curator, Australian Art.
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Daniel Crooks Structured light 2022, Commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
Daniel Crooks Structured light 2022, Commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
Daniel Crooks Structured light 2022, Commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
Daniel Crooks Structured light 2022, Commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
Daniel Crooks Structured light 2022, Commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
Daniel Crooks Structured light 2022, Commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
Daniel Crooks, Structured light, 2022, commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra.
Daniel Crooks Structured light 2022, Commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
Daniel Crooks, Structured light, 2022, commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra.
Daniel Crooks, Structured light, 2022, commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra.
Daniel Crooks, Structured light, 2022, commissioned for The Balnaves Contemporary Series for Enlighten Festival, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra.
Artist Daniel Crooks.
Artist Daniel Crooks.
National Gallery Director Nick Mitzevich and artist Daniel Crooks.
Elspeth Pitt, Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery and artist Daniel Crooks.
