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Winter Light: David Ogle

David Ogle’s Loomin (2020) is an installation which together forms a luminous canopy of interlocking neon branches

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Originally posted Wed 1 Dec 2021

Loomin is one of a number of returning artworks and new commissions that comprise Winter Light, an annual outdoor exhibition across the Southbank Centre which celebrates how the medium of light can transform our physical spaces.

During recent winters Ogle’s installation has occupied a prominent spot outside our Royal Festival Hall, on the South Bank of the River Thames, and in this video, the artist explains how he sought to respond to this location and ‘create a piece that would confront someone in a space, but didn’t have the weight you might associate with sculpture’.

 

Photographs of Loomin, 2020, by David Ogle courtesy of, and copyright of, Morley von Sternberg

‘Light has this property, like water or sound, that is sort of volumetric, it unfolds and transforms and fills a space’

David Ogle