Light show a blaze of glory

By Casey Neill
THE first major Australian exhibition by Lloyd Godman is on at Burrinja Gallery until 30 March.
Called enLIGHTen, the exhibition starts before visitors even enter the gallery.
A display of carbon obscura artworks forms a temporary main entrance to the gallery.
Viewers enter into a darkened structure of foil wall wrap.
The inside is painted black and decorated with pinhole designs that allow natural light to filter through.
“As the viewer enters the enclosed and blacked out space fog rises gently toward the jewel-like points of light projected by the natural sunlight from outside,” Burrinja’s Ross Farnell said.
“With the changing light, each small pinhole projects a reversed light-image of the trees from outside, in the manner of pinhole photography.”
The exhibition also features multiple interactive projectors, bromeliad plants, light and soundscape within tissue paper covered walls.
A committed ecological artist, Godman has transformed the former museum case of racehorse Pharlap into a glasshouse.
The case contains an audience-triggered webcam to capture plant growth using time-lapse digital photography.
Burrinja Gallery is located at 351 Glenfern Road, Upwey. Phone 9754 8723.