William Cooke: Luce
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Drawn to light from an early age William Cooke would recognise that his various home environments often utilised the use of lamps as light sources as opposed to overhead illumination. The ambient and often softer light in these cases attached a sense of calm and serenity to various forms of functional lighting. As an artist now, the inevitable nostalgia associated with exploration of light and form results in these emotions being drawn out in both physical and spatial works.
Cooke has gathered and collected unusual lamps from different design periods for the past 5 years and developed an interest in the way in which designers harnessed light in varying manners. As opposed to carrying out a simple function, light in some cases is altered, becoming close to a physical object or form that seems to extend itself past simple illumination.
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