Blair Zaye

Graduating from Auckland in 2005 and today living in London, Blair creates visually arresting images using light beams.

Zaye’s Light Lab series are abstract photographs which he has been experimenting with for over the past 7 years in his light laboratory. He has been capturing scenes of contrived light both static and in motion to find brilliant hues and colours, shapes and forms which appear as if by magic.

“Using art as a form of meditation and self realisation, as the vessel for a journey inside and through myself, trying to find something more or capture something I’ve found already. Diving into a world of artistic existentialism to look for and find answers and universal truths within myself, as opposed to looking for answers in others and mass media which often merely distract. Sometimes I wonder if I am trying to tell myself something that I have not yet come to realise. I catch a glimpse of my true self in a pure form during the painting process and then use the produced painting as a window to relay it back to others”. After almost two years in London refining my practice and developing a more professional and mature attitude I feel I am finally creating fine works, pieces I feel I can be proud of and have no hesitation in using as a true representation of myself”.