Len Lye Rainbow Dance 1936 (still) © of the Len Lye Foundation and courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and British Postal Museum and Archive.

Light Weight Artist Talks

Saturday 13 February 2027
2pm - 4pm
TALKS
Speakers: Natasha Johns-Messenger, Ross Manning, Jeremy Eaton, Taree McKenzie and Danica Chappell, Emily Cormack

Join exhibiting artists Danica Chappell, Jeremy Eaton, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Ross Manning and Taree Mackenzie in conversation with Light Weight curator Dr Emily Cormack for an afternoon exploring the materiality and poetry of light.

Bringing together five distinct artistic practices, these conversations will explore light’s elusive and ever-changing qualities, from its physical properties to its capacity to shape perception and experience.

Together, the artists will share insights into their practices, materials and processes, offering new perspectives on the works presented in Light Weight and the possibilities of light as an artistic medium.

This event is included with exhibition ticket.

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Light Weight

  • Upcoming
  • 28 November 2026 - 28 February 2027
This playful exhibition explores the materiality and poetry of light, experimenting with light’s metaphorical and symbolic qualities, as well as its material and physical properties. Exploring light’s ability to elucidate and enlighten, make visible and splinter into a colour spectrum, the exhibition conjures poetic, generative and structural aspects of light, bridging the worlds of poetry […]
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The Museum is closed for exhibition changeover. 'Light Weight' opens 28 November. The Eva and Marc Besen Centre is closed for a private event until Friday 13 November, reopening Saturday 14 November, with 'Behind the Glass' tours available.Book tickets to go 'Behind the Glass'!