'Sublime Light' by Shaun Wilson
Next date: Tuesday, 10 February 2026 | 11:00 AM
to Saturday, 14 March 2026 | 05:00 AM
A site-specific video projection onto Kingston Town Hall, featuring local scenes, and exploring slowness, the sublime, and maritime imagery, examining how slow cinema evokes emotion and memory through the horizon where ocean and land converge.
Shaun Wilson’s interest in the maritime is drawn from memories of living in the region during the 1970s and 1980s where his father Peter moored his boat at Mordialloc Creek. Several years later when Shaun was an art student in the early 1990s nearby at the former Moorabbin TAFE now Homesglen TAFE, they would often stop off at Moorabbin Town Hall (which became the Kingston Arts Centre two years later in 1993 and now Kingston Hall) on their way to Mordialloc beach via the local Chinese take away on South Road when skipping class (that ironically was an art history subject which now deeply informs this work).
These moments across those years the artist recalls as very happy experiences which he has since mapped onto the locales of the surrounding area in particular, as they would travel to and from Mordialloc Creek and beach back home, or back to school for night classes, along Nepean Highway and underneath where the Bridge gallery now stands.
The video is part of Shaun’s long-term investigation into slow cinema which has remained in his art since 2002 that now examines the murkiness of memories and how pace and the slow can act in simulacra in recalling slices of time in slow motion as many of his Mordialloc and Moorabbin memories appear to him now. As such, Kingston and the gallery site hold a profoundly impactful connected relationship for the artist now embedded in his practice.
Image credit: Shaun Wilson, Sublime Light, 2025, still, video, 10 mins.
About the artist
Dr Shaun Wilson's work explores the relationship between memory and place through miniatures, painting, and the moving image.
The way Shaun makes work is under the banner of very long-term projects that give time to develop, fail, re-evaluate, and complete. These have been The 51 Paintings Suite (2006-2024), Filmic Memorials (2005-2025), and others the artist works on concurrently from one and another.
Shaun likes to make work that taps into memories, no matter if its autobiographical or someone else's to find a resonance within places, and our sense of place, to find how the most meaningful experiences we interlink within can be explored through the moving image, on canvas, and in scale.
Artist Talk
Join Dr Shaun Wilson on Saturday 7 March from 2pm to 3pm for a a free artist talk to explore how artists have used the horizon line to evoke sublimity in maritime art.
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When
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Friday, 16 January 2026 | 05:00 PM
- Saturday, 14 March 2026 | 05:00 AM
Location
Skybridge is located on the south side of City Hall, connected to 999 Nepean Highway.
Kingston City Hall,
979-985 Nepean Highway, Moorabbin, 3189, View Map
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979-985 Nepean Highway ,
Moorabbin 3189
Kingston City Hall
979-985 Nepean Highway ,
Moorabbin 3189
'Sublime Light' by Shaun Wilson
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