There are three ways in which we interpret colour: Impression - our visual response, Expression - our emotional response and Construction - our cultural response. However objects in the world do not posses colour; it is the light reflected from these that generates colour. The exhibition A Trick of the Light uses this familiar expression to bring together a group of seven London based contemporary artists. They all examine the phenomenological relationship between the eye and brain, and the way in which the mechanisms behind perception shape our world.

A Trick of the Light is not strictly speaking an exhibition exploring optical illusions or the mirage. It exists somewhere between the two and attempts to capture a mood or a feeling surrounding these phenomena. The exhibition title aims to set an atmosphere, rather than a strict curatorial rationale and although many of the works in the show parody this idea, its content, in the words of Wiliam de Kooning, is more "a glimpse of something, encountered like a flash."