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Graham Crowley, Dark Arc 2, 2021, oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm
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Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs, photo by Rocio Chacon
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Paula MacArthur, When nothing else remains, 2023, oil on linen, 100 x 100 cm
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Image credit: Lesley Bunch
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Joe Packer, ''Nashgumbrooke Phantoms II' oil on canvas ,140x90cm 2023
Exhibition
Darkness Visible
27 Mar 2025 – 13 Apr 2025
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- Harold Wharf
- 6 Creekside
- London
- SE8 4SA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Deptford / Deptford Bridge / New Cross Gate
An exhibition of painting, installation, film and performance that takes the simple idea of light emanating from darkness as a starting point to explore deeper themes of the unseen, the psyche, memory, otherness, loss, love, and the space between us.
About
Artists
Marius von Brasch, Lesley Bunch, Anne-Marie Creamer, Graham Crowley, Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Pippa Gatty, Paula MacArthur, Gavin Maughfling, Donna Mclean, Ruth Murray, Joe Packer, Hideatsu Shiba, Geraldine Swayne, Judith Tucker, Casper White, Joanna Whittle.
Darkness Visible was first proposed by the late artist, lecturer and former Chair of Contemporary British Painting Judith Tucker. Exhibiting artists explore the potential of light and dark in painting, installation and film to examine wider social and philosophical concepts.
In the gallery entrance a mirrored installation by Davis & Hibbs bounces a fragmented version of us back to ourselves. This work will be activated through live performance and music at the closing event. In 2023 John Moores Painting Prize winner Graham Crowley’s work, an acid yellow light floods into the shadows of an empty workshop. Casper White, Natalie Dowse, Donna Mclean and Geraldine Swayne hold momentarily still in paint the movie and Tik Tok images we consume on illuminated screens. In Tucker’s own painting a ghostly photograph from the artist’s disrupted heritage is viewed through a diasporic lens. Anne-Marie Creamer’s film ‘Dear Friend, I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice’, commissioned by the Sir John Soane Museum, narrating the haunting, shadowed presence of a lost love, will have a dedicated showing followed by an artist Q & A.
Curated by Paula MacArthur, Gavin Maughfling and Lesley Bunch
Events:
Private View - 27 March 6-8pm
Workshop - 5 April 2-4pm
‘On Shadows’, a public workshop led by Lesley Bunch exploring psychology, myth and aesthetics of shadows. Free entry. Bookings required, tickets available through Eventbrite.
Film Screening - 9 April 6-8pm
Screening of Ann-Marie Creamer’s film ‘Dear Friend I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice’
Closing event with performance - 13 April 2-4pm
Finissage with performance by movement artist Jamal Sterrett and composer for modular synths Ben Lancaster in response to the installation of Rosalind Davis & Justin Hibbs.
