A new exhibition of playful and illusory artworks combining a passion for textiles with science is on show in the James Hockey Gallery at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham.

Quantum Light – Beyond a Crisis of Perception has been curated by Peta Jacobs, a BA and MA textiles graduate from UCA. She created it to showcase her PhD research into the science of light.

Using her textiles thinking and the practice of making, she folded, braided and weaved, examining the many complex themes that arise from an exploration of quantum light: waves, particle duality and refraction.

Peta said: “The behaviour of light in the quantum realm is extraordinary, bizarre and paradoxical, which appeals to an artist.”

These themes were appropriated and incorporated into Peta’s artworks using scientific materials usually applied in experiments into light, like mirrors, prisms and lenses.

“Exploring those materials as an artist, I found new ways to use them that are not their intended use,” she added.

Her artwork sits at the edge of where particles and anti-particles flicker in and out of being and offer multiple visual experiences which alter depending on the viewer’s vantage point, asking them to question their perception and certainty about what they are seeing.

The exhibition is open until Monday, from 10am to 5pm weekdays and 10am to 4pm on Saturday.