SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling

4 Apr-22 Jun 2025

PV 3 Apr 2025, 6-8pm

Roger Ackling, Voewood, 2012, Sunlight on wood. Credit: © Estate of the Artist. Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Overview

SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling is the first survey and most comprehensive exhibition of the work of artist Roger Ackling (1947-2014), one of the most quietly influential artists of the late twentieth century.

For fifty years Ackling consistently made objects by burning wood – focusing sunlight through the lens of a hand-held magnifying glass to scorch repeated patterns of lines on the surface. Collecting driftwood from the beach at Weybourne near his home on the Norfolk coastline, as well as reclaimed broken and discarded materials, Ackling took little from the world to make his work and left nothing beyond a wisp of smoke in the air.

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