66.0667N 18.6600W 21/06/2012-22/06/2012

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Research Background: Sky Lab was an exhibition of speculative works about our relationship to outer space and sky-situated knowledge by nine national and international artists including Sam Leach and Harry Nankin curated by Dr Felicity Spear. Artists have long directed their gaze skywards and speculated about what lies beyond the clouds. While stars and planets are clearly visible with the naked eye on cloudless nights away from cities, during the day the scattering of daylight obscures their presence. Artists such as David Stephenson and Thomas Ruff have created photographs of the traces and movement of stars across the night sky, while artists from John Constable to Berndnaut Smilder have represented the sky by day. Research Contribution: 66.0667N 18.6600W 21/06/2012-22/06/2012 (Midnight Sun) was created following an artist residency in Iceland and references a specific location north of the Arctic Circle during midsummer where there is 24-hour daylight and the celestial phenomena of the night sky cannot be seen. My aim in this work was to reveal an impossible view of the day and night sky simultaneously using traditional and new technology. I achieved this by superimposing images from the iPhone App Night Sky over six panoramic photographs of the Icelandic landscape/skyscape to create a between-space, neither fully dark nor fully light in order to make visible the invisible. Research Significance: 66.0667N 18.6600W 21/06/2012-22/06/2012 (Midnight Sun) was created following a competitively applied for artist residency in Iceland funded by an Australia Council New Work Grant (Established Artist). The work is shortlisted for the National Works on Paper Award 2014 May 2014 under the title Midnight Sun.