LIFTING LIGHT
1997
Solo exhibition at the Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney.
For this exhibition Bevan developed a series of works using processes of casting, printing and reflection to explore changing states of material, weight, balance and transformation. In the main pier gallery was an installation titled Shimmer, which involved light, water, cast concrete and the movement of people through the space. A raised timber floor was installed over the existing floor, at one end a concrete form cast from layers of cloth, next to it a galvanised steel tank filled with water. A light was focused on the surface of the water, and as the viewer walked in the space, their movement caused the reflected light to cast a shimmer on the wall, echoing the form of the cast sculpture.
Bevan invited the poet George Mackay Brown to respond to her work, and his poem Hills Woolcraft Stone became the starting point for a new series of prints, titled Good.
A limited edition archival box containing seven prints and the poem is available to purchase.
Publication
LIFTING LIGHT; published by the Pier Art Centre (1997)
Colour book with essays by Murdo McDonald & Mary Anderson, poem by George Mackay Brown.
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