Meagan Streader: W-inter

Overview

The best artwork makes audiences see things in a different way. Perhaps a piece plays with different formats. Or, it could simply shine a new light on existing elements. Maybe it makes a statement that fuses seemingly unconnected ideas, items and places.

Meagan Streader's W-inter aims to do all three in an immersive, large-scale installation. In Metro Arts' first exhibition for 2016, she fashions a mesmerising field of illuminated linear structures. Her creations not only craft a futuristic vision of cyberspace, but also respond to the gallery's heritage-listed building in a way that has never been seen before.

Basically, Streader's latest show aims to embody a term that gets bandied about all-too-often in the art world: sensory experience. Given that W-inter combines light, geometric lines and architecture, the Brisbane creative is certainly doing her best to earn that description — and, you can hear chat about all that and more at an artist talk on March 2.