Erskine, Hall & Coe are delighted to present Where Light Meets Form, an exhibition of work by Gregor Törzs and Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, two artists whose practices share a fascination with form, materiality and close observation. Working in very different media, both artists invite us to look beyond the familiar and to discover new qualities within seemingly simple objects.

Gregor Törzs (b. 1970) is a German photographer whose practice encompasses analogue photography, platinum-palladium printing and an ongoing engagement with the natural world. His subjects range from coral reefs and underwater landscapes to insects, trees and fluorescent uranium glass. For this exhibition, Törzs presents a series of thirteen platinum prints on Japanese paper depicting uranium-glass vessels, photographed under UV light to capture their particular fluorescence and individual character.

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (1935–2013) was a celebrated Australian ceramic artist whose porcelain vessels transformed the traditional still life into carefully considered arrangements of form, colour and space. Her work is characterised by a sensitivity to subtle variations in shape and tone, with individual vessels brought together to create poetic relationships between one another. The exhibition presents a series of her finely composed vessel installations.

Bringing these two bodies of work together, Where Light Meets Form explores the ways in which our perception of an object can be transformed through light, photography and arrangement. Törzs captures the unexpected luminosity of the vessels he photographs, while Hanssen Pigott creates new dialogues between individual ceramic forms through their placement and juxtaposition. Though working across distinct materials and processes, both artists share an attentiveness to the quiet presence of objects and to the ways in which careful looking can alter our perception of them.

The exhibition invites us to look closely: to consider how light, material, form and the relationships between objects can reveal qualities that might otherwise remain unseen.

The exhibition will run from 3–26 September and will be fully illustrated online from the opening day.