Daniel Crooks: Structured Light

Naarm/Melbourne based artist Daniel Crooks has been commissioned to illuminate the National Gallery’s façade for the Gallery’s 40th anniversary year.

First shown at the 2022 Enlighten Festival, Crooks' digital work is returning for 10 days across October.

Structured Light celebrates the design of the original National Gallery building by Edwards, Madigan, Torzillo and Partners. Using the architects' 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 the building's brutalist architecture and sense of sacred geometry.

Daniel Crooks is part of The Balnaves Contemporary Series.

Curator: Elspeth Pitt, Senior Curator, Australian Art.

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