Light Objects – Photography in the Expanded Field is an exhibition of three photo-media artists stretching the medium of photography through explorations of light and objects in real space. Each artist challenges the idea of the conventional photograph allowing the photographic medium to expand beyond the flatness of the frame into three dimensions.

Simone Darcy is a multidisciplinary artist who works from an autobiographical space, employing strategies of abstraction, appropriation and symbolism to explore new methods of self-portraiture, depictions of the feminine and the shared experience. Simone has shown her work nationally & internationally including exhibitions at Reykjavik Museum of Photography Iceland; Verge Gallery Sydney; Maitland Regional Art Gallery; Damien Minton Gallery Sydney; Span 1,2 & 3; The University of Newcastle Gallery and was selected in 2016 to be part of Der Greif Process 2.0 Krakow Photomonth Poland. Her work has also been included in the following prizes – The National Portrait Prize; Head On Portrait Prize ACP; The New York Photo Prize; The Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Prize; Gaffa Experimental Photography Prize and Melbourne Photobook Image Award. Simone is currently undertaking a Masters of Fine Arts at The University of Sydney (SCA).

Isobel Markus-Dunworth is a Sydney-based photographic artist working across the mediums of sculpture, installation and traditional photographic depiction. Isobel has studied locally in Australia and internationally at Parsons the New School for Design in New York. Isobel has recently been awarded the degree of Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Sydney for her research into light and its relationship to the photographic medium. She has exhibited locally and abroad and has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including ArtStart from the Australia Council and the Fauvette Memorial Artists’ Exchange Scholarship. Isobel has also been commissioned to create works for Beams Festival in Chippendale and philanthropic events for the University of Sydney as well as numerous private commissions. Isobel runs a photographic studio based in Sydney and teaches locally at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney.

Bernadette Smith is a cross disciplinary artist working with photomedia and installation. She is currently completing Higher Degree by Research studies at Sydney College of the Arts exploring light refractions within water and glass through macro photography. These recorded phenomena are then transposed on to fabric and metal objects to form provisional assemblages which transcend the boundaries of the photographic medium. Her recent exhibitions include Sunstudio Emerging Photographers Prize, Fishers Ghost Art Award, Art on the Greenway, Beams Festival, Newtown Art Seat, Sculpture at Sawmillers, Electrofringe Festival, December Unfinished Projections at Sunstudios and SCA Showcase at Verge Gallery.