Billabong Cathedral

Acrylic and gold dust on glass panel
80cm x 100cm

Billabong Cathedral was a painterly collaboration between the waterlily pond on The Retreat, the flow of Living Water, and pure gold. This experimentation attempts to build on the theory of stained glass windows of Gothic cathedrals, which were first designed by Abbott Suger in the Abbey at St Denis, to invite the Light of God into the space. He sought to change the atmosphere and open a portal to an encounter with the Almighty.

Inspired by research on Nubohiro Nakanishi, I pursued further experimentation on glass.

I am interested in further developing work that engages with light as material – where the physicality of light penetrates right through the support and the paint – where an outcome can be read differently depending on viewing perspectives, and where reflection is taken to another level.

Exhibition of works on transparent supports need to be situated centrally within a space, where the viewer is able to engage with it bodily, move around it, view it from different angles, see beyond the painted surface, interact with it on their own terms, and so on – all pertinent to my areas of interest.