Specular: Group Exhibition

specular
/ˈspɛkjʊlə/

adjective

1. relating to or having the properties of a mirror.

Specular brings together works that engage with reflection, surface, and the act of looking. The exhibition considers how reflective materials shape perception, positioning the viewer and their surroundings as integral to the work itself.

From the historical use of precious metal leaf in frescoes and ornate gilded frames to contemporary applications of highly polished and industrial surfaces, reflective materials have long been associated with value, authority, and transformation. In Specular, these associations are both extended and questioned within a contemporary context. How might such materials be reconfigured as painting, object, or sculpture beyond their traditional applications?

Across the exhibition, artists manipulate surface to operate directly within real space, producing moments of distortion and fragmentation. Rather than offering a fixed image, these works remain contingent, shifting with movement, light, and the presence of the viewer.

Specular has been curated from the Gow Langsford stable of artists, featuring works from Gregor Kregar, Dale Frank, Max Gimblett, Lisa Roet, and David McCracken, as well as a special addition from Pablo Picasso.