Luna Gui is an artist based in Sydney, Australia, working at the intersection of painting, object-making, and installation. Influenced by post-minimalist and formalist traditions, her practice investigates spatial perception through constructed forms and a reduced visual language.
Her recent work explores perceptual play—experiments in how vision constructs space. Each piece brings form, colour, line, structure, and shadow into relation as elements of spatial events, where seeing becomes a process of continual reorganisation. Drawing on Gestalt principles, visual instability, and optical illusion, her work stages oscillations between figure and ground, surface and depth, transforming perception from observation into experience.
Often responding to architectural sites, Luna’s installations explore how form and environment co-produce spatial meaning, prompting shifts in how we encounter and read space. Her process is iterative and research-driven, guided by acts of building, observing, and adjustment—where each work emerges from and extends an ongoing inquiry into the construction of perceived space.
Luna Gui (b. 1978) holds an MFA and a BFA (Painting) from the National Art School in Sydney. Her MFA research project, Seeing Depth: Perception and Phenomenology of Space, established the conceptual foundation for her ongoing investigation into the construction of perceived space.
Luna has exhibited frequently within Sydney’s independent contemporary art scene, including the NAS Postgrad Show, Derivatives (solo), and ABORA 4: Fourth Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts. She is the recipient of the John Olsen Prize for Drawing (Highly Commended), and her work is held in both private and public collections.
She is currently developing a two-year research project, Gestalt and Beyond: Constructing Perceived Space, extending her inquiry through studio experimentation, installation, and collaboration, with a focus on perceived space and the open system.