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Bristol Heart and Lung Hospital
End emitting fibre optics illuminating hundreds of cast translucent resin cones. Changes colour throughout the evening. Rhythm of the sculptural form is inspired by the rhythm of a heart.
Winner of the Best Design for Healthcare Award.
Nottingham Railway Station
Interactive lines of coloured LED's change colour and patterns in response to trams entering and departing the station.
A new line of poetry is projected each nigh in recognition and celebration of Nottingham's UNESCO City of Literature status. Poems taken from around the world.
Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield
Cold cathode lights enclosing stainless steel rods that flex in the wind and reflect the light.
A series of spun stainless steel hemispheres are illuminated by one spotlight from above to increase the drama of the shadows.
Nominated for the Prime Minister's Building of the Year.
Chimney lighting, Burnley
Projected image of cotton patterns created for the cotton production in Burnley when it was the cotton producing powerhouse of the world.
Intersection,
Central Square, Leeds
Collaboration with DLA Architect, Leeds.
35 meter high programmed coloured LEDs change colour and patterns in response to different moments in
Leed's history. Diagonal form is inspired by the angle of the glass facade
The project was highly commended for its design, innovation and creativity and awarded the Sustainability Project of the Year.
The Rock, Bury, Greater Manchester.
Series of interactive LED columns with sensors located at ankle level.
The columns of light change colour for
5 seconds after someone walks through the space leaving a trail of changing light behind them.
Cultural Olympiad Lasers. Boughton House.
Northamptonshire
6 lasers located 1.5m above the canalised river at Boughton House. The varying river mist created a different screen for the lasers each evening.
Market Square,
Chester le Street
Archway inspired by the form of the viaduct in the background. Made from bespoke bricks with end emitting fibre optics illuminating 70 translucent polycarbonate tubes which slowly change colour throughout the evening.
Nominated for 3 architectural awards and featured in Blueprint Magazine and 1000X European Architecture, Braun Publishing.
Sage, Gateshead
Side emitting crackle fibre optics illuminating hanging tubes that reflect the form of the millennium bridge.
A glass portal was located in the centre so that people could visually connect the two spaces and see the light from above and below. Slowly changing colour throughout the evening.
180 Degrees of Light.
Cultural Olympiad,
Northamptonshire
6 lasers shining 80 feet in the air on to
3 water towers, 5 miles apart and making a giant triangle of light.
Winner of the National Lottery
Best Project Award and at installation was Britain's largest recorded public artwork at 5 x 5 x 2.5 miles.
Hillsborough College, Sheffield
3000 stainless steel propellers located on each stainless steel cone spin and glint in the wind.
At night time these moving artworks are illuminated by two slow colour changing spotlights.
Field of Light.
Cultural Olympiad, Northamptonshire. Shortlisted.
For the 2012 Olympics, 2012 intelligent LED suspended sculptural lights that change colour in response to the movement of trains travelling from the north to London.
M1. Winning Proposal,
Gateway to the East Midlands
Ex colliery site now used as an innovation centre. The site used to generate energy through the land. The 220m wide solar horse creates energy from the land which was proposed to pay for the artwork's maintenance and also create a budget for good causes locally, each year.
The project was stopped when the HS2 project was due to be located in the same site.
Golden Bridge. Derby
Golden gladding on this city centre bridge which is illuminated to create a golden arch reflected in the river.
Northern Ballet, Leeds,
zoetrope glass facade
3m high glass panels printed with coded images of Northern Ballet dancers that animate when people walk by.
Winner of the National Lottery Award best arts project.
Neptune Marina, Ipswich
Powder coated copper tubing formed in the shape of a water droplet relating to the surrounding marina.
Lasers, Borough Hill, Northamptonshire.
4 lasers recreate a mast in light referencing the transmitting masts of the BBC which gave its last transmission from here in 1992.
Mr Arkwright, Cromford Mill, Derbyshire.
A sculptural tribute to the amazing engineering of Richard Arkwright at Cromford Mill. Arkwright used the energy of the flowing water to run his cotton machines. I made a machine that used flowing water to create a drawing .
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