'Sublime Light' screens at Kingston Arts Centre

The site specific video 'Sublime Light' screened at Kingston Arts Centre in Moorabbin, Victoria 16 January - 14 March 2026

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.