'Light Permeate Silence' is an exhibition showcasing new lighting designs by artist Sarah Tracton, presented Glowing Structures Gallery, an international award winning, architectural lighting design studio that celebrates lighting as art, located in the heart of Chapel Street, South Yarra.
A graduate of the National Art School in Sydney, Sarah is Good Design Award Winner, Creative Victoria / Creators Fund recipient and Australia's Next Top Designer finalist in 2022. She has built a reputation for finessing a unique slip poured on plaster slab ceramic to create bespoke handcrafted lighting that merges fine art, craft and functional design. Her creative process involves pairing traditional clay crafting techniques with the finest grade porcelains plus high-end design, manufacturing & fabrication for bespoke architectural lighting applications.
Drawn to exploring the infinite possibilities of porcelain translucency, Sarah fuses innovative cordless technologies with traditional craft processes to create lighting that is luminous, experimental and ethereal. Her lighting is suspended by near-invisible slimline wires, creating a balanced, and streamlined aesthetic.
Incorporating Kintsugi golden repair into porcelain that has shattered in firing stages, Sarah addresses the wider implications of repair, recycle and reuse; the creative reworking of usually discarded objects, replacing the cycle of make-use-dispose with circular economy. A process that transforms what was once a piece of broken trash into a functional light, where the repaired scars become illuminated as rivulets of gold.
Image Credit: Portare handcrafted porcelain light shot at dusk and dawn at Elwood beach, Melbourne. Photography: Oscar Colman