Patricia Roan is a visiting artist in the Glass Workshop

Look closely at the back wall of the School of Art during lunch time and you might notice this subtle light installation by visiting Artist Patricia Roan.

Roan is the 2013 Stephen Proctor Fellow in the ANU School of Art Glass Workshop which is an annual fellowship that supports glass artists in furthering their practice through overseas travel. The award alternates each year between international artist who coming to the ANU for an artist in residency and an Australian artist being able to travel overseas followed by an artist in residency at the Glass Workshop.

Roan is a Canberra based glass artist and an alumna of the School of Art. She used the opportunity of the Fellowship to travel to Scotland and Iceland in order to spend time in remote landscapes and develop ideas for time based installation work.

She describes the resulting installation at the School of Art below:

"The piece is a series of coloured mirrors reflecting circles of light onto the back of the main art school building. They move across the building over the middle of the day (visible between 11am and 1pm) as red, green and blue circles that align into a single spot of white light at noon, under the circlular feature at the apex of this wall. This point of alignment was attempted to be set to the equinox (22nd September), in the anticipation that it will stretch into a line as the sun moves towards its highest and lowest point over the course of the year, then back into a circle at the equinox. It's an attempt to find the mid point of all these things, from the immediate environment to these wider rhythms and orbits."

The 2014 Stephen Proctor Fellow is set to be announced by the end of the year and will be chosen from a strong field of international glass artists.