The candle echoes the message found in many of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s historic paintings: ‘life - like a flame - goes quickly; art lives on’.
Joint Turner award-winning artist (2019) Tai Shani takes inspiration from cosmology. The motif of light is well suited to the Sculpture Garden of the world’s first top-lit art gallery.
Tai Shani, Haunted by a Million Suns (Bronze Blue) IV, 2025
Bronze, glass and electrics
Courtesy of the artist and Gathering
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