Impalpable Shadows: MFA Degree Show Imagined at The Foundry Gallery, London, 2020
Conceived during Covid-19, this exhibition is imagined within The Foundry Gallery, London, with additional speculative rooms extending the space. The work investigates light and shadow across a 1960s tower block, using recorded shadow forms as abstract source material to explore surface, colour, and materiality. Through these constructed surfaces, the work examines how shadow can carry atmosphere and personal resonance, revealing the sensed but unseen qualities of architectural space.
Gallery 1 - Absence
This room explores absence through cut and folded forms, where material is removed to create voids and new spatial relationships. The work focuses attention on what is missing and on the surrounding space shaped by that loss.
Gallery 2 - Attachments
This room examines attachment through reconfigured shadow forms, using mirroring, repetition, and rotation to construct new relationships. Temporary and permanent fixings—such as cable ties, hinges, and rivets—signal differing degrees of physical and emotional bond.
Gallery 3 – Hidden
A Constant Deep Breathing of Shadow and Light (2020) comprises mirrored linear shadow forms hinged along a central spine and folded outward into space. Light activates both the objects and their cast shadows, creating an ambiguous atmosphere that oscillates between enclosure, safety, and quiet menace.
