DRAWING WITH LIGHT

Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin, 2003
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, 2003

Drawing with Light developed from my fascination with light, natural phenomena and the physical laws that govern them. I began using photograms as a way of drawing directly with light, experimenting with water held in vessels of different shapes and types of glass to record the diffraction patterns created as light passed through them.

Light Box Photograph 2003

Photogram 2003

MILLENNIUM COURT ARTS CENTRE

At Millennium Court Arts Centre, Drawing with Light developed into a broader investigation of photographic light, illuminated objects, architectural space and spectral colour.

Installation Photograms

INFINITE / FINITE

SPECTRAL DNA

DRAWING WITH COLOUR

LIGHT BOXES

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Article, 2003

SELECTED PRESS

A TOUCH OF MAGIC

Marianne Hartigan — The Sunday Tribune / Artlife, 2 February 2003

Writing about Drawing with Light, Marianne Hartigan described the exhibition as “a rather magical little exhibition.” She wrote of how the light drawings appeared “organic, alive,” describing forms like “primitive deep-sea life forms” and others that drew the viewer “into a fantasy-like abstract world.”

Hartigan particularly responded to the illuminated works, describing “the ethereal creations in the light-boxes” and noting how the use of water and air within the light source contributed “an important vitality to these works.”

She concluded that Drawing with Light was “an imaginative, promising exhibition.”

CIRCA

Regina Gleeson — CIRCA 103, Spring 2003

Writing about Drawing with Light, Regina Gleeson described how “the artist’s interest in physics laws is expressed in a refined aesthetic manner,” resulting in “original work and an appealing appreciation for photo-energy.”

She concluded that in Drawing with Light, McGowan had “captured the unnoticed” within light itself.

Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Article, 2003. (Above)