Brad Lochore Meets Anya Hurlbert / Chris Ofili Meets Anthony Ismond - ACE359.2

Brad Lochore manipulating images on his computer, and arranging objects and lights in order to cast shadows which create optical illusions. Lochore talking about his shadow images and how he likes to draw on the ambiguity between fiction and the real. Anya Hurlbert, a vision scientist, working at her computer, examining how we perceive three-dimensional shape and colour. Hurlbert explains that her work is about trying to find out what mental processes come into play when looking at images, a complementary activity to that of an artist whose work is designed to set off mental processes. Lochore and Hulbert meet. She is surprised and disoriented by his work. She sees a huge range of colours in his apparently grey and white shadow paintings, as well as a very real illusion of three-dimensionality, and compares them to some of the work she’s engaged on in the laboratory. Lochore on his way to Newcastle University to visit Hurlbert’s laboratory. He tries to analyse one of her computer images. She asks him if he can paint some coloured shadows. Hurlbert at home; she and Lochore discuss where she might hang his finished painting. Light flashing through foliage. Lochore has decided to do a painting which is a shadow of nature. He takes a number of photographs and manipulates them in his computer. Lochore in his studio making an artificial "nature" scenes with two different light sources, marking the results on the wall in charcoal. He intends to pick up the theme of the image he saw in her laboratory. Mixing paint on a glass surface. Hurlbert playing the piano. Lochore beginning to paint, but then finds that his model branch has changed shape and no longer matches the charcoal outlines. Hurlbert’s house with the finished painting hanging over the stairs. Hurlbert suggesting that Lochore has take his technique one step further. Lochore in his studio.