LIGHT FORMS SHAPE

Eve Bracewell
Amy-Jean Mitchell
Tinieka Page
Alexandra Severinsson
Matthew Swift

March 6 – 28th, 2026

Light Forms Shape reunites five artists, who worked alongside each other amidst the broken structures of an abandoned industrial park in Barreiro, Portugal, during the summer of 2024. Light moved through crumbling concrete and exposed structures, producing deep shadows and searing brightness that acted as quiet but insistent forces upon both the artists and their work.

Alexandra Severinsson utilises line and geometric elements in her explorations of urban space. In her monoprints, cartographic marks push and pull across the surface, while her ceramic works assemble and disassemble polygons and circles, evoking fleeting impressions of architectural form. Walking through municipal laneways Amy-Jean Mitchell captures and translates fleeting instants into softly rendered layers of flare and umbra. Her paintings humming between quiet solidity and evaporating glows. With a focus on process, Tinieka Page’s experience of time forms into embodied abstractions. Tangled, tubular forms wrap and unwrap across the canvas, confusing figure/ground relationships. Eve Bracewell’s layered works explore depth through light, texture, and material contrast. Surfaces shift playfully between clarity and obscurity, as raw and refined elements coexist across print and sculptural form. Matthew Swift presents thin-skinned, stained-collaged surfaces as visual counterpoints to a once-robust civic vernacular. Using semi-translucent yellow silks and painted, silvered surfaces, he allows luminosity and hazy shadow to move across the overtly textured works, activating space through reflection and transmission.

Rather than engaging with chiaroscuro—where a single light source defines a figurative scene—Light Forms Shape explores light as a material and experiential presence. Across abstraction, the works probe how light is perceived, felt, and remembered, and how it might carry emotional resonance. The exhibition asks: if light itself could form shapes, what would they be? And if we could hold light in our hands, what might it feel like?