The Inbetweens are a series of Luminograms, created by drawing with light over photographic paper with a handmade tool similar to a fibre optic device. Produced through an experimental process of exposure and cross-processing, the works occupy a space between drawing and photography - engaging directly with traces of light. Light therefore becomes both the subject matter and the process behind the abstractions.

The series forms part of an extended investigation into light and its materiality - drawing on ideas of optics and perception. The resulting abstract images are reminiscent of visual phenomena such as the phosphenes and floaters behind our eyes. Each work records a moment of transformation, change and decay, as a result of light accumulating on the paper’s surface.

Ross Deeley (b. 2001, Birmingham, UK) is an artist working across and in-between sculpture, photography, and moving image.

He has previously exhibited at Somerset House, and at the /’FU:BAR/ Glitch Art Festival.

In 2025, he graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Contemporary Art Practice.