Between Shadow and Light, Robert Owen, London Works 1966-1975 and New Directions

About the exhibition
This survey of influential artist Robert Owen focused on a particularly formative period in the artist’s development and research. It connected his attention to colour theory, constructivist shapes and conceptual interest in the sensory experience of nature and light to earlier precursors found in drawings, notes, paintings and wall reliefs made during a pivotal time in London decades earlier. Owen’s witnessing of the eclipse of the sun while on the island of Hydra, Greece, in 1966 is credited with having set him on a long-lasting investigation into the optical phenomenon, as well as the science and effects of light and shadow more generally.

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^{Image: Robert Owen, Sunrise 1993, synthetic polymer paint on wall, 420 x 2165 cm. Installation view, City Gallery, Melbourne. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: John Gollings}