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Light is evasive, categorically inconstant: at once invisible and revealing, both wave and particle. Liminal – as in ‘barely perceptible’, as in ‘in-between’. From limus, oblique, and limen, threshold. (At the threshold of consciousness, subliminal; at the threshold of the divine, sublime.) Other than at its emanating source, light is perceived only where it touches a surface or moves through a medium, that is, at the threshold of matter. Absorbed, reflected, refracted, slowed – it reaches us obliquely as tone and hue.Emerging from an unfolding conversation between three artists, Liminal Layers of Light brings together studies of light as particular to place. Beyond their formal affinities, Caroline Collom, Frances van Hasselt and Jenny Lundgren share a sustained attention to the ambient qualities of their respective settings – southeastern Australia, the Karoo in South Africa, and northern Sweden. Atmospheric and associative, the artists’ painted and woven compositions transcribe light’s transitory impressions in different registers of abstraction.On canvas as on the loom, light assumes a sedimentary form: its luminosity described in layered pigment and fibres. In Collom’s paintings, incidents of light and shade excerpted from her surroundings are translated in chromatic geometry. Where she works with studied precision, Lundgren’s approach is one of intuition and improvisation – her paintings gestural, their light diffused. Van Hasselt’s tapestries, in turn, pair the structure of warp and weft with the serendipity of collaborative making. Suspended in space, her woven works appear veil-like, the details of their making made visible; placed against the wall, they assume a solidity of form.In the months preceding the exhibition, the artists shared images and insights, comparing processes and preoccupations, and tracing resonances between them. The thick weave of Collom’s canvas found a parallel in van Hasselt’s textured compositions; van Hasselt’s embroidered stitches, an equivalence in Lundgren’s loose brushstrokes. Rectilinear shapes repeat in all three artists’ compositions, clearly defined or only faintly described. Opacities and transparencies similarly recur; layers that either obscure or disclose. Their works are equally possessed of a radiant luminosity – a “light within,” as Collom describes it. Their engagement, too, glows with gentle warmth.Moving as light moves, the distance between these three artists is made insignificant, some twenty-five thousand kilometres in 0.08 seconds. Their messages, transmitted as electrical signals, travel at similar speeds. But conversation keeps a different pace. A series of postcards is included in the exhibition as a physical metonym of their durational, online dialogue. Lundgren offered a beginning, followed by van Hassett, then Collom, in a slow relay across seasons and continents. These small objects, having journeyed through time and space, at once illuminate the artists’ remove and draw them closer – to the threshold of touch.
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Caroline Collom
Saltlight
Oil Paint on Linen
Limed Wash Shadow Box Frame
91.6 x 107cm
SOLD
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Jenny Lundgren
Unstable Stillness
Acrylic Oil on Linen
120 x 140cm
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Jenny Lundgren
Presence Dissolving
Acrylic Oil on Linen
120 x 140cm
SOLD
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Jenny Lundgren
Held Together
Acrylic Oil on Linen
80 x 90cm
SOLD
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Jenny Lundgren
Transition 2
Oil on Linen
Tobacco Shadow Box Frame
30 x 35cm
SOLD
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Jenny Lundgren
Transition 3
Oil on Linen
Tobacco Shadow Box Frame
30 x 35cm
SOLD
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Jenny Lundgren
Transition 4
Oil on Linen
Tobacco Shadow Box Frame
30 x 35cm
SOLD
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Frances van Hasselt
Rumours of Rain and Still We Wait
Hand-Woven Mohair
85 x 285cm
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Frances van Hasselt
Moonlight Sleeping on A Rusted Lake
Hand-Woven Mohair
Dark Brown Shadow Box Frame
124 x 133cm
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Frances van Hasselt
Table Setting for Pray Mantis & Moon
Hand-Woven Mohair
61 x 100cm
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Frances van Hasselt
Summer Loving with a Hint of Crisis
Hand-Woven Mohair
24 x 22cm
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Frances van Hasselt
Very Leggy Darling
Hand-Woven Mohair
17x 17cm
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Frances van Hasselt
Over the Hills and Far Away
Hand-Woven Mohair
20 x 20cm
SOLD
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In Conversation with Frances van Hasselt, Jenny Lundgren and Caroline Collom
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Part I — Liminal Layers of Light with Frances van Hasselt
Artists in Conversation August 3, 2025For our exhibitions, we invite our artists to respond to questions that offer insight into their practice and the exhibition. However, for Liminal Layers of Light, the collaborative bond between... -
Part II — Liminal Layers of Light with Jenny Lundgren
Artists in Conversation August 3, 2025For our exhibitions, we invite our artists to respond to questions that offer insight into their practice and the exhibition. However, for Liminal Layers of Light, the collaborative bond between... -
Part III — Liminal Layers of Light with Caroline Collom
Artists in Conversation August 3, 2025For our exhibitions, we invite our artists to respond to questions that offer insight into their practice and the exhibition. However, for Liminal Layers of Light, the collaborative bond between...
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Liminal Layers of Light: Frances van Hasselt, Jenny Lundgren & Caroline Collom
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