British sculptor Nigel Hall and collaborative group Brass Art both use light ... but the similarity ends there.

Mr Hall’s Sculpture and Drawing 1965-2008 takes inspiration from urban and rural landscapes, to project elegant lines and shapes.

For 20 years he has sketched in the Swiss Alps, where he examines the constantly changing views.

Mr Hall told the Express: “I always carry a small notebook to make a note of sculptural ideas. These books form a diary of visual ideas, measurements, lists and evocative phrases. A shelf in my studio is filled with this continuous record.”

Even though a lot of his sculpture is large, he manages to create a sense of weightlessness and buoyancy, notably in his monumental works Crossing (horizontal) and Crossing (vertical), which are huge steel sculptures.

Brass Art’s exhibition, Skyscaping, explores actual and virtual space, using the latest digital technology and traditional forms of illusion to position shadows, ghostly forms, reflections and miniature models.

The artists’ bodies were scanned to produce miniature replicas made from clear acrylic. Moving light then creates dramatic and eerie shadows on the gallery walls.

Kirstin Mojsiewicz, one of the trio of artists who make up Brass Art, said: “Shadows are always seen as the dark side to our personas and we wanted to explore and experiment with this idea. We wanted to create the illusion of the projected shadows of ourselves, and to show that even though they are our own shadows, they actually seem to manifest themselves and we appear to have no control.”

Nigel Hall’s Sculpture and Drawing 1965-2008 runs until June 8 and Brass Art’s Skyscaping can be seen until June 22.