10 years and 1 million visitors 

Blue Skies

Penelope Payne is based in Whitley Bay and works in a studio in Cullercoats on the North East coast. She has exhibited artworks in London and Venice and her installation You Make Me Think Of Dead Spiders was selected for the Middlesbrough Art Weekender.

End Over End

Lucy McDonnell is the Managing Director of Full Blown, a bespoke metal design company based at the Biscuit Factory Studios in Newcastle. She co-founded Studio Vertigo with Stephen Newby and has been involved in both small and large-scale sculptural projects over the years. Her first solo project was commissioned by Enchanted Parks and the Bowes Museum in 2017

Mysticète

Catherine Garret is Creative Director of the design agency, Top’là Design, who work on the conception and realisation of cultural projects events, scenography and art installations.

Are Atoms Alive?

Ocubo is an international creative studio that produce artistic events and installations telling captivating stories through light and technology. They have animated historic sites with large-scale projections in more than 20 cities worldwide. Their projects often invite the local community to be co-creators of their works through participation.

ocubo.com

Founded in 2007, Storybox create amazing projection spaces around the world using shipping containers. Their works connect with audiences through innovative storytelling.

storybox.co.nz

Durham Sixth Form Centre is a mixed sixth form located in Durham city centre.

durhamsixthformcentre.org.uk

Lightbenches

Bernd Spiecker produced his first bench in 1982 using acrylic material. He has since developed the idea of the Lightbench as a symbol of community. He plans to build 100 across the world in the hope that they will bring people from all backgrounds together.

Heron

Jon Voss was born in Devon, UK and now resides in Antibes, France. He creates fine modern drawings and steel sculptures inspired by the industrial world and nature.

The Stars Come Out At Night

Founded by Lyndsey Stephenson and Rachel Willis, Stellar Projects produce inspiring events and arts projects for the public sector and local communities.

Human Tiles

Ocubo is an international creative studio producing artistic events and installations to tell captivating stories through light and technology. They have animated historic sites with large-scale projections in more than 20 cities worldwide. Their projects often invite the local community to be co-creators of their works through participation.

Helvetictoc

Originally a professional jazz drummer, Tobie Langel accidentally turned web developer some time ago and is now a software engineer at Facebook, which he also represents at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Although his minor in fine arts is the only thing he managed to complete before dropping out of college, Tobie Langel has no formal artistic training.

Helvetictoc is a permanent artwork in Millennium Place, Durham.

Fusion

Mick Stephenson has a track record of turning rubbish into beautiful illuminated art. His Litre of Light – Rose Window installation for Lumiere Durham 2015 attracted thousands of visitors to Durham Cathedral Cloisters. The piece was later reworked for Lumiere London 2018. Mick also created Litre of Light – London for Lumiere London 2016, for a collaborative project with Central Saint Martins’ students and MyShelter Foundation.

The Next Page

Hannah Jane Walker is a poet and theatre maker. Her poems are funny, sharp and conversational. She has written for The Guardian and BBC Radio 4 and is currently Associate Artist for the National Centre for Writing.

hannahjanewalker.com

Founded by the artist Richard William Wheater, Neon Workshops specialise in the development and manufacturing of neon lighting for the creative industry. Neon Workshops host an annual exhibition programme of neon related work in their gallery spaces, as well as one of the UK’s largest resource libraries on the subject.

neonworkshops.com

Light Tunnel

Part of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Guildhall Live Events is a leading video design and production company specialising in creating immersive and interactive digital experiences, from the intimate to the spectacular. They have created works for Glastonbury Festival and Tower Bridge.

Dan Shorten is Guildhall Live Events Creative Director. Dan has 17 years professional experience of designing and producing large scale outdoor artwork. He works predominantly in light and sound and regularly collaborates with specialists in the fields of architecture, sculpture and scenography. He has worked on various video mapping projects including installations at the Barbican and Lux Helsinki.

Friendship Tree

Mick Stephenson has a track record of turning rubbish into beautiful illuminated art. His Litre of Light – Rose Window installation for Lumiere Durham 2015 attracted thousands of visitors to Durham Cathedral Cloisters. The piece was later reworked for Lumiere London 2018. Mick also created Litre of Light – London for Lumiere London 2016, for a collaborative project with Central Saint Martins’ students and MyShelter Foundation.

Founded in 2003 by Mason White and Lola Sheppard, Lateral Office, is an experimental Canadian design practice that operates at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The studio is committed to design as a research tool responding to the complex, urgent questions and complicated relationship between the public realm, built infrastructure and the environment. This piece is co-created with fellow Canadian design practice, CS Design.

Washed Up

Diane Watson is an environmental artist on a mission to combat plastic pollution by turning it into art. Over the years, she has collected thousands of discarded items washed up onto the coast which she uses to create her intricate artworks. She has more than 20 years teaching experience in arts education and community projects. Her work has featured in several exhibitions including MIMA’s Fragile Earth, Festival of Thrift and Navigator North’s Latest Edition project.

Lift Off

East Durham College is a top performing college in the North East of England offering further education vocational courses, A Levels and part time courses.

Part of Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Guildhall Live Events is a leading video design and production company specialising in creating immersive and interactive digital experiences, from the intimate to the spectacular. They have created works for Glastonbury Festival and Tower Bridge.

gsmd.ac.uk

Dan Shorten is Guildhall Live Events Creative Director. Dan has 17 years professional experience of designing and producing large scale outdoor artwork. He works predominantly in light and sound and regularly collaborates with specialists in the fields of architecture, sculpture and scenography. He has worked on various video mapping projects including installations at the Barbican and Lux Helsinki.

Sanctuary

France

Air Vag have produced installations across the world in Sydney, Manchester, Rome and their native France. Another installation by Air Vag, Symphonie Conique, was also part of the Lumiere Derry~Londonderry programme in 2013.

http://airvag-spectacle-gonflable-monumental

Cosmic Architecture

Nina Dunn’s practice has always traversed the line between art and technology. Her work in visual art evolved into the use of integrated light design for film, theatre and live events. As head of Video and Digital Design at RADA, she’s one of the UK’s most prominent female video designers and over the past 10 years has created works for internationally acclaimed companies including The National Theatre, The Royal Opera House and The RSC. Cosmic Architecture was her first major public art commission and she has since created public works for the City of London and Emergency Exit Arts.

John Del’ Nero’s career in sound design spans across many disciplines, from designing the sound for The Rocky Horror Show in the West End to designing the sound aspects for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations in 2002.  John recently designed a sound installation for Salisbury Cathedral and he is currently working on a number of soundscapes celebrating the history of churches and villages in the UK.

Isobel Waller-Bridge is an award-winning composer at the forefront of a new wave of emerging artists in film, television and theatre. Her soundtracks include Vanity Fair, Vita & Virginia and Fleabag. Her trademark electronic sound worlds and sweeping melodies for large-scale orchestra have received wide critical acclaim.

For the Birds

Jony Easterby is a producer and artist whose work explores the fragility of the natural world. He has created permanent light and sound works for sites around the UK, including White Cliffs of Dover and Grizedale Forest.

Mark Anderson uses light, sound, electronics, kinetics, fire and pyrotechnics to make site-specific temporary installations and performances.

Kathy Hinde’s work fuses nature and technology through audio-visual installations and performances.

Ulf Pedersen’s practice combines light and sound and his works often rival architecture in scale.

Pippa Taylor is a sculptor and painter specialising in wood carving and applied decorative painting.

I Love Durham

Jacques Rival is a French artist and architect that uses different design tools to create surprising urban installations. The purpose of his work is to encourage the public to explore unknown areas and enrich everyday life by adding a hint of the unexpected.

A Different View

Mike Donaghy is a Durham County Council employee. He was a first time artist and one of the winners of Lumiere 2019’s BRILLIANT commissioning competition which invites anyone originally from or currently living in the North East to submit a bright idea for a Lumiere light installation.

Big Knitting

Mixed media textile artist, Victoria, has previously exhibited at the DLI, the Captain Cook Museum, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool Art Gallery, Durham Cathedral, Woodhorn Colliery and other private galleries. She set up the Durham City branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild and is currently chair of the North East region.

CLOUD

Artist duo Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett (Calgary, Canada) work with a variety of mediums and materials, ranging from artificial light to re-appropriated architectural debris.  Beckoning viewers with interactive contexts and novel materials, their projects invite strangers to share in experiential moments. Mass-produced objects are often used to reference cities as immeasurable masses of materials, people, and situations, evoking the possibility of renewed understanding through a minute shift in perspective. Previous works have appeared at: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), Pera Museum (Istanbul, Turkey), Whanki Museum (Seoul, South Korea), I Light Marina Bay (Singapore), GLOW Forum of Light + Architecture (Eindhoven, Netherlands), and elsewhere.

Echelle

Ron Haselden is a British artist who creates light sculptures and architectural installations using neon, LEDs, film and video, drawing and painting. His work has travelled across Europe and appeared in a variety of locations including small mountain towns, public parks and even a disused shop in France.

Stones

Tigrelab is a Barcelona based studio directed by Javier Pinto, Mathieu Felix and Federico Gonzalez, with a long-standing experience in 2D and 3D animation, Motion Graphics and Video Mapping. The trio’s particular passion is producing interactive experiences where graphic design and film are integrated within rules-based, generative environments and/or interactive video mapping. They love working closely with clients through the entire creative process from the idea and concept, to the final production to create evocative experiences.

Tigrelab’s significant understanding of human factors enable them to involve users as a fundamental part of the development and evolution of a story. Always excited to try to blend technology, art and people, they really enjoy seeing their content in other surfaces, media and platforms. Their recipe for powerful and simple experiences is that they love to experiment, mix and make mistakes, finding the best people and teams to achieve their goals. Hailing from multiple cultures across Europe and South America, Tigrelab brings a truly international – truly Barcelonian – mix of culture and sensibilities to each project.

Spirit

Carabosse are one of France’s most important street arts groups, transforming streets and parks into flickering artworks that remind us of the most basic and elemental human need. Carabosse have performed all over the world, delighting thousands of visitors from Edinburgh to Brighton with installations that inspire awe and reverence in equal measure.

Shoefiti

Originally from Nottingham, Deepa Mann-Kler now lives and works in Killyleagh, County Down. She has exhibited internationally including solo and group exhibitions in Ireland, America, Germany and China. In 2013 she was a Lumiere Derry-Londonderry 2013 BRILLIANT commissioning competition winner and was awarded the Individual Artist Award by the Culture Company as part of the Derry UK City of Culture celebrations.

The Stars Beneath Our Feet

Louise Mackenzie is a UK based artist working across installation, sound, sculpture, performance and film.  She creates artworks that explore themes of production, waste and our relationship with the environment. Recent work has focused on what Louise terms ‘lively material’ such as DNA, viruses and single-celled micro-organisms that exist on the boundary of what we traditionally consider as life.

Geometrical Traces

Born in Avilés (Asturias), Javier Riera studied Fine Arts in Salamanca completing his training with the Contemporary Art Workshops of El Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (Spain). His career focused on painting until 2008, when he exhibited photographs of intervened landscapes for the first time on the occasion of his exhibition at the Reina Sofía National Museum and Art Center.

Javier Riera uses photography as a means of registration, without computer manipulation of any kind. His work is based on an experience of real intervention on “the space and time of the landscape”, which brings him closer to the proposals of Land Art. The relationship between geometry and nature thus acquires a meditative character, appealing to the coexistence of the public with the power of suggestion of the modification of the landscape to which they attend, which aspires to broaden their perception by laying bridges towards hidden qualities and dimensions in the spaces where it takes place. Riera understands geometry as a natural language prior to matter, able to establish with it a kind of subtle and revealing resonance.

Fogscape #03238

Simon Corder is a London based designer. His practice embraces lighting for performance, set & production design, light-art, zoo design, event production, lighting for exhibitions, and photography.

Fujiko Nakaya is best known for her fog sculptures, ephemeral and immersive installations that have been transforming public spaces and structures for nearly 50 years. Nakaya’s innovative use of fog as a sculptural medium emerged during her involvement with E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology). This global initiative promoting collaboration between artists and engineers was a perfect fit for Nakaya, a painter with a preoccupation for natural phenomena and the daughter of Ukichiro Nakaya, a physicist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. As Tokyo representative for the group, Nakaya produced the world’s first fog sculpture for Expo ’70 in Osaka, shrouding the roof of the Pepsi pavilion with simulated fog.