Lux Lumen Splendour
Carmen Tuke
The Long Gallery
22 November - 17 December 2023
OPENING EVENT: Sunday 26 November 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Nibbles and drinks.
All welcome, free event; RSVP essential
Featuring an album launch and live music by Solastalgia.
Carmen Tuke is a multi-faceted artist whose skillset captures sculpture, printmaking, painting and music. Carmen creates her unique artworks from her poolside studio at Montsalvat and often paints en plein air in the Montsalvat grounds and further afield in Castlemaine, Mt Korong and many more places!
This exhibition Lux Lumen Splendour presents the labour of Carmen's artisanship to the finest detail by showcasing her exquisite plein air paintings, screen prints and automaton sculptures.
LUX LUMEN SPLENDOUR
‘A medieval philosophy concerning the transition of light. From source to subject to the resulting ethereal glow, splendour. It once was, and now is, the act of the artist to emulate this metamorphosis through painting, sculpture and music.
As a traditional plein air oil painter, Carmen Tuke watches the changing light over land to create her work. A record of harvested light through the painter's eye. Each painting holds traces from the place it was created, sand, sea spray, dust, pollen, a midge, all become one with the DNA of her paintings.
The copper automaton sculptures created by Carmen Tuke are an exploration into copper sculpture and mechanical movement. Music by SOLASTALGIA - Lux lumen splendour Atmospheric music by Carmen Tuke and Wyatt Till, featuring instruments designed and built by Carmen. To be released on the opening night of the exhibition alongside a light performance featuring copper automaton sculptures. ‘SOLASTALGIA is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment.’ While painting and watching the light pass over land, knowing’
- Carmen Tuke 2023
Image: Courtesy of Carmen Tuke, hand-made automaton sculpture.
Image: courtesy of Carmen Tuke
Image: courtesy of Carmen Tuke
Image: courtesy of Carmen Tuke
Image: courtesy of Carmen Tuke