Photographer Danica Chappell started working on her Far From the Eye series in 2019. The camera-less work sees Ms Chappell working with light and shadow in a dark room to produce the works.

"It's a way of working with the material of a photo, the active agents and chemistry to emit (something)," she said. "When eliminating the camera, I am working with light sensitive substrates and placing objects between them to make lights and shadow translucent and opaque."

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Far From the Eye uses systems of photography to keep light, shape and tone are fixed in place by chemical means. The process removes the camera and the works are formed on the photogram method of making.

"Rather than seeing something and snapping it with a camera, I like to build compositions with the materials materials I have at hand in the dark room. I spend a lot of time in a dark room doing tests with colour works and letting the forms appear out of compositions."

LAI senior curator Kent Wilson invited Ms Chappel to join a collaborative program to develop the project.

"With COVID, we were delayed in the launch but that gave me a little more time to evolve the project further," she said. "Now it's installed magnificently thanks to the team at LAI."

Far From the Eye is on display until mid-March.