Kate Maestri, Realm of Light

About

Inspired by the huge vista of sky afforded by The Brunswick Centre’s second floor terrace, as well as the cathedral-like A-frame, Kate developed an abstract understanding of the building as a series of solids and voids. Her subsequent sculptures, made from perspex and wood, record moments of light as it moves through and around the building: from sunlight passing across the flats and balconies, to the glint of the cascading glass terraces on a bright day and the geometric shafts of sunlight that finds its way in through the A frames. 

Kate’s research and resulting works-in-progress resonate with Patrick Hodkinson’s [1] idea of people “looking up towards the sky” and “living in the clouds.” Correspondingly, Kate has used a Cyanometer – a scientific instrument for measuring blueness and the colour intensity of the sky – as a colour palette for the building. Through purity of form and colour, Realm of light, connects with (as did Hodgkinson) the Futurist idea of the “sky as the transcendental plane of escape from mundane everyday life”.

The works presented are intended as maquettes for future works, cast in glass, or scaled up for public art projects.

1. Patrick Hodgkinston (1930–2016), architect of The Brunswick Centre.