For International Women's Day 2025, we are sharing information about our forthcoming new book.
Collected Light: Volume Two is the second in a series of books from Light Collective. The Women In Lighting project led us to the curation of its first book, Collected Light: Volume One which was launched in November 2022 and featured 44 women working as artists using the medium of light.
After participating in many conferences, exhibitions and light festivals around the world, it became apparent to us that there is an onus on, and much greater visibility of, male artists who work, or have worked, with light within their bodies of work. The book was a small step towards trying to redress this imbalance and bring their work to a wider audience.
"After the first book, we started to discover more women working with light and approached them about being featured in specialist posts on Instagram. Some women, who had come across the book, approached us and others connected on social media because our content resonated with them. It became apparent we had more than enough content for a second book so we started again, asking another group of women to participate by sharing images of their work, so a new book could be created. We would like to thank all of the contributors for their time and generosity and hope that fans of the first book like and appreciate this one too."
Collected Light: Volume Two features the following women light artists:
Alex Leyva, Alicia Eggert, Amelia Kosminsky, Andrea Bowers, Angela Yuen, Aphra Shemza, April Key, Carla Chan, Cecilia Ömalm, Karen Chankalun, Chris Wood, Clara Daguin, Claudia Bueno, Daisy Doig, Diana Rojas, Ecem Dilan Köse, Eve De Haan, Fiona Grady, Flora Litchfield, France Dubois, Giny Vos, Grimanesa Amorós, Hannah Ayre, Inma Femenía, Iyvone khoo, Jasmine Grace Pilcher, Jenny Mc Namara, Jeongmoon Choi, Jiayu Liu, Jo Holland, Margareta Hesse, Maria Vera van Embden Andres, Meagan Streader, Nicola Anthony, Regine Schumann, Sabine Marcelis, Sandra E. Blatterer, Seohyo, shirin abedinirad, So Wing Po, Vanessa Hafenbrädl, Vera Röhm, Viel Bjerkeset Andersen and Ying-Chen Lin.
Both Volume One and Volume Two are supported by formalighting.
We will share details for how to purchase the publication shortly.