BRUCE MUNRO : LIGHT CREATIONS

26th October – 28th December 2024

This winter Velarde Gallery in Kingsbridge proudly presents a selection of works by British/Australian artist Bruce Munro, which explore his life-long interrogation of light and how it affects emotions and memory. The exhibition includes works influenced by Munro’s long connection to this area of Devon and runs alongside his spectacular light installation marking the RNLI’s 200th anniversary, on show opposite Salcombe Harbour from 5th October 2024 and 10th January 2025. 

The collection at Velarde will explore his 2-D experiments in abstraction, through lens-based wall hangings and smaller 3-D light installations. They include wall mounted pieces from Munro’s Time and Place series, which seeks to distil the emotional essence associated with specific images by taking a suite of photographs in a 360-degree arc and transforming them into a series of dots of pure colour. His C-Scales series explores binary codes and musical notation, while Silent Boogie Woogie originates in his childhood fascination with photographic transparencies. The largest of the light installations in this exhibition, Fireflies, is inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, and Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, novels which feature rivers as metaphors for the spiritual and physical journey of all living creatures. Three other works on display, Bell Chandelier, Snowball Chandelier and Light Shower are commissions which combine Munro’s experiments with lights forms and materials in a dramatic interior setting.

For more information, please visit www.velarde.co.uk