Cucoloris
By Jayne Newgreen & Tiffany Titshall for Bound, Ballarat Craft + Design Week, 2026.
Cucoloris | “No-one’s lost who finds the moon” (lyric by Kev Carmody) is a large-scale, suspended installation by artists Tiffany Titshall and Jayne Newgreen.
Central to the work is the cucoloris, a light-shaping device borrowed from film and theatre, used to naturalise artificial light and bring a scene to life. Our cucoloris sets the scene of a night lit by the moon (our light) through the treetops, down long, textured branches, and grounded in our local earth. Jayne’s 24 metres of woven textile – using thread, reclaimed denim, and paper scraps from drawings – takes the place of the cucoloris. Lit from one source, light becomes the collaborative force as Jayne’s weave casts shifting shadows across Tiffany’s deep indigo ink wash and hand-drawn charcoal scenes of the box-ironbark forest. The trees are drawn using home-made charcoal on suspended panels of cotton rag paper, four metres tall; they sway beyond the weave.
A two-tiered illuminated light-shade is suspended beyond the drawings – it is a prototype of the conceptual installation artwork made into a functional design. The inner tier is made of woven cloth, slowly spinning within the outer tier, which is a reproduction of Tiffany’s tree drawings printed on sheer cloth. This light-shade becomes animated by moving dappled light and shadow from within.
Central to the work is the cucoloris, a light-shaping device borrowed from film and theatre, used to naturalise artificial light and bring a scene to life. Our cucoloris sets the scene of a night lit by the moon (our light) through the treetops, down long, textured branches, and grounded in our local earth. Jayne’s 24 metres of woven textile – using thread, reclaimed denim, and paper scraps from drawings – takes the place of the cucoloris. Lit from one source, light becomes the collaborative force as Jayne’s weave casts shifting shadows across Tiffany’s deep indigo ink wash and hand-drawn charcoal scenes of the box-ironbark forest. The trees are drawn using home-made charcoal on suspended panels of cotton rag paper, four metres tall; they sway beyond the weave.
A two-tiered illuminated light-shade is suspended beyond the drawings – it is a prototype of the conceptual installation artwork made into a functional design. The inner tier is made of woven cloth, slowly spinning within the outer tier, which is a reproduction of Tiffany’s tree drawings printed on sheer cloth. This light-shade becomes animated by moving dappled light and shadow from within.
