And let there be light in 2015

2015 is the International Year of Light, prompting a suite of significant exhibitions celebrating light as an art form.

9 Jan 2015

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Detail of Bill Culbert’s Daylight Flotsam, 2013, 55^th Venice Biennale. Fluorescent light, electric wire, plastic bottles. Photograph by Jennifer French, courtesy of the New Zealand Pavilion.

Light has been chosen as the subject of the year by the United Nations to raise global awareness of light-based technologies and their potential in energy, education, agriculture and health.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina