Bigger, bolder and brighter than before

Guardian Angels

Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis collaborate on work that challenges living spaces and points of view.  They like to examine urban and rural landscapes, often juxtaposing one with the other in their work.  They are interested in the environment and our impact on our surroundings.

Both live in France and exhibited at the Light in Jerusalem Festival 2013 and the Land Art Biennale, Mongolia. They have also shown work throughout Europe, Asia and South America.

Entre Les Rangs

With more than 10 years of experience in designing a range of projects, including student housing, large-scale public art installations, mixed-use buildings, commercial establishments and public spaces, Rami Bebawi / KANVA treats each project as an opportunity to transform the built environment while telling stories. Each project is engaging, memorable and sensitive to human experience and contemporary culture.

Rami Bebawi / KANVA regularly collaborates with talented artists, musicians or creators to lead interdisciplinary research to maximise a project’s innovation potential. Entre les rangs was created and produced with the support of Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, Montreal.

Aether

Architecture Social Club design is a studio that specialises in bespoke collaborative projects ranging from spatial experiences to beautifully crafted objects, on scales spanning the miniature to the enormous, in impossibly ambitious creations.

Deconstructing the Domestic

Rackowe’s work is heavily influenced by cities. The British sculptor is based in London, and his interest in neon reflects the light sources of such urban landscapes. Often creating large-scale structures, he uses recognisable man-made materials (like scaffolding and shed doors) mixing this with kinetic elements and employing a raw aesthetic that leaves wiring clearly visible.

A graduate of Sheffield Hallam University and Slade School of Fine Art, in 2015 Rackowe presented solo shows at Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai and Jérôme Pauchant in Paris. Art fairs include solo booths at Art Basel/Miami and Art Cologne. Rackowe has been commissioned by Calvin Klein Collection in New York and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen.

Control No Control

Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1981, Daniel Iregui currently lives and produces all his work from Montréal, Canada. Founder of Iregular, an interactive art and design practice in Montreal, he has work in the field of interaction design for almost 10 years.

Art director made programmer, Daniel creates interactive experiences and light sculptures where design is as important as technology. He is very intrigued by the infinite and random combinations that are produced when a system is open to the public for them to transform it. “I create the system, the rules and the esthetic, but the result is always different. This is what makes me interested about adding interaction to my work.”

Daniel Iregui’s work, often signed as Iregular, has been presented by many music, light and new media festivals in Montreal and abroad. Created at IglooFest in Montreal in 2012, Control No Control has been hosted by various music, art and light international festivals such as Glow (Holland), Les Bains Numériques (Paris), Visual Art Week (Mexico), Shenzen Light Festival (China).

Cosmoscope

A scientific sculpture, exploring the similarities between the microscopic and the enormous. 

Taking inspiration from the study of the universe, blood flowing through the human heart and the order and disorder of atoms and molecules, Cosmoscope explored the patterns, structures and similarities of these scientific areas.

The piece was originally created for Lumiere Durham 2017 and later appeared at Lumiere London 2018 in Fitzrovia’s Store Street.

Cosmoscope asked us to consider the very, very small scale and imagine the very, very large scale, to contemplate our own place in the universe and encouraged us to question how we perceive the world around us. This vast project was developed by a team of scientists and artists and led by Simeon Nelson, Professor of Sculpture at the University of Hertfordshire.

A-bit Immersive

Imagination creates valuable experiences for audiences and brands worldwide.

Droplets

Architectural in scale, UK-based Pedersen’s work transforms the act of looking into a physical experience and is carefully placed to respond to the raw materials of his chosen site. The artist has created installations across the world that immerse us in a sensational play of light and colour, often combining natural and artificial elements with new architectural forms. Through a kind of light-based alchemy using hi and lo-fi technologies, an outdoor space changes into something unique and magical.

Pedersen has recently created displays at arts festivals in Sydney, Hong Kong, Hobart and Wellington, with future plans to present works in Rio De Janeiro, San Francisco, Shanghai and Kunming.

Impulse

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.

Lightbench

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.

Neon Bikes

Born and raised in Darlington, Robyn had just completed her degree in Graphic Design at Cleveland College of Art and Design when she applied for BRILLIANT. Normally interested in print design, applying to BRILLIANT gave her the chance to experiment and think on a bigger scale.

Northern Lights

Aleksandra Stratimirovic (b. 1968) is a Swedish artist with an extensive knowledge and understanding of light and lighting technologies who creates temporary and permanent site-specific works in the public space in her native country and abroad. In addition to her work as visual artist, Stratimirovic is co-founder of the Lighting Guerrilla Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia and artistic director of the Skopje Light Art District in North Macedonia.

Illumaphonium

Michael Davis is a musician and inventor.

[M]ondes

Atsara is a duo composed of Roland Devocelle and Audrey Rocher, working mainly with plastic, sound and corporeal art. Since 2000, they have been collaborating as artists, working on multidisciplinary projects, developing audio-visual improvisations.

In 2008, they started to work with light and projections, introducing sound and movement into their installations. Since then, Atsara have exhibited work at light festivals in France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Switzerland. Lumiere Durham 2013 was the first time Atsara had exhibited work in the UK.

Bough 3, Bough 1

 UK

Simon Corder is an award-winning artist and designer who has created over 350 breath-taking installations all over the world. 

His practice embraces lighting for performance, set and production design, light-art, zoo design, event production, lighting for exhibitions, and photography. He also designed the lighting for Fogscape #03238 by Fujiko Nakaya at Lumiere Durham 2015.

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Was That A Dream

Born in Paris in 1972, Le Borge studied arts at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1994 – 1998). 

Le Borge works with the real and from the real. He seeks to integrate his work within movement, time and space, a living context, without preconceived ideas on the nature of the spaces he works with: interiors, exteriors, hyper-centers, suburbs, wasteland… each have their own qualities… their own poetry, different dimensions, visible or invisible, to offer. 

The environment, in its vast and many faceted reality, offers an infinite field of exploration. Urban space, so mundane, also becomes a creative playground: here, more so than elsewhere, he is integrated in reality, his reality, in the reality of the city: sometimes beautiful, sometimes sordid. He wants to transcend it, but his statement is not uniquely aesthetic or sensitive, it is also social and political: the city is the territory of ‘living together’.

He wants to point to the contradictions, rub up against opinions, question consciences, but also invite encounters, dialogue, exchange.

Spectral

The young artistic Polish duo Katarzyna Malejka and Joachim Sługocki studied at the department of visual arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Their work mostly explores abstract and geometric shapes, often embedded in natural environments. In addition to their collaborative works, Malejka explores new media through her own installations, while Slugocki is a painter and video artist.

Reflektor

Famous for its 2011 Christmas tree at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Studio Roso was established in 2008, and is a creative partnership between Danish designers Sophie Nielsen and Rolf Knudsen. Fusing architecture, art and design, Studio Roso makes work that radiates the ephemeral nature of our environment.

Supercube

French artist Stéphane Masson has been hijacking every day objects for art projects since 2004. Devoted to injecting craziness into our everyday lives, his previous works include The Aquarium Car (La Voiture Aquarium), Kissing Lamps (Les Lampadiares a Bisous) and interactive video recording The Box of Words.

Harmonic Portal

Be Faithful to Your Dreams

Emin (UK) uses neon to illuminate emotions, memories, feelings and ideas in graphic messages, sentences and poems. Translating handwriting and drawings into blown and bent neon tubing presents technical challenges, and the choice of words or images is crucial.

As the artists notes: “Neon is light, so, can you live with this thing glowing and the chemicals moving all the time?”

The Royal Academican studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited extensively internationally including solo and group exhibitions in Holland, Germany, Japan, Australia and America. Emin represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, a Doctor of Letters from the University of Kent and Doctor of Philosophy from London Metropolitan University. In May 2011, Emin had a major solo exhibition at the Hayward, London.

My Light Is Your Light

Alaa Minawi (Beirut b.1982) is a Lebanese-Palestinian artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has worked in more than 300 performances as a performer, light designer, and scenographer. He was a member of the lighting designers association (london,uk) between 2015 and 2018.

Love Motion

Since graduating in 2016, Coren (UK) has exhibited in solo and group shows across Europe, Hong Kong and the US.  He works across disciplines, switching between animation, writing, performance and painting – his work has an inescapable rhythm and often takes its inspiration from music and his love of dancing. Here, both play out across the face of a much-loved building.

Voyage

Gross and Epsztein (France) met while working for painter and video producer Xavier de Richemont, creating monumental projections and international lighting projects throughout the world, including Mexico, Canada and Morocco.  Both now work as freelance designers, coming together to create Voyage, which has enchanted audiences across the globe.

Frictions

Holger Mader and Heike Wiermann (Germany) have worked together since 2001, creating extraordinary installations that take the building blocks of architectural form and transform them into something more fluid, poetic and transitory. From Berlin to Brazil, Norway to Greece, Mader Wiermann have taken iconic buildings and temporarily transformed them into moving flowing structures.

Shaida Walking. 2015

Julian Opie lives and works in London. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally with major museum exhibitions including shows at Kunstverein in Cologne, Hayward Gallery and ICA in London, MAK in Vienna, Art Tower Mito in Japan, MOCAK in Krakow, Taidehalli in Helsinki as well as the Delhi Triennial, Venice Biennale and Documenta. He has also presented many public projects in cities internationally, including the Dentsu Building in Tokyo 2002, City Hall Park in New York 2004, Mori Building, Omotesando Hill in Japan 2006, River Vltava in Prague 2007, Phoenix Art Museum USA 2007, Dublin City Gallery in Ireland 2008, Seoul Square in South Korea 2009, Regent’s Place in London 2011, Calgary, Canada, The Lindo Wing, St Mary’s Hospital, London and more recently permanent installations at SMETS in Belgium and PKZ in Zurich. His work can be found in many public art collections, including Tate Modern, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, ICA in Boston, and Takamatsu City Museum of Art.

The Plugs and Bulbs

James Glancy Design (UK) is a creative agency that transforms retail and public spaces from the everyday to the extra special. It works on a massive scale creating visceral experiences that combat the increasing prevalence of the online marketplace, enhance environments and bring the public closer to the original sensuality of shopping.

Origin of The World Bubble 2018

Miguel Chevalier is a pioneer of digital and virtual art. His works are enriched by the public spaces that welcome them, from his ‘Magic Carpets’ which draw passers-by into their evolving shapes and megapixels, to his suspended, inflatable ‘Digital Constellations’ which make mosaics as light as bubbles.

Aquarium

Flamingo Flyaway

The Lantern Company have a wealth of experience in producing and directing arts festivals, one-off site-specific events, carnival parades and visual theatre. They also undertake sculptural commissions and create processional kinetic floats, costumes and large-scale puppets.

At the heart of the company lies the desire to nurture and promote artistic excellence alongside a commitment to developing sustainable projects, which build skills and raise aspirations in community members, increasing confidence, celebrating creativity and promoting social cohesion amongst participants and audiences alike. Lantern Company events aim to be accessible to those who may not normally access visual or performing arts.

Nightlife

The Lantern Company have a wealth of experience in producing and directing arts festivals, one-off site-specific events, carnival parades and visual theatre. They also undertake sculptural commissions and create processional kinetic floats, costumes and large-scale puppets.

At the heart of the company lies the desire to nurture and promote artistic excellence alongside a commitment to developing sustainable projects, which build skills and raise aspirations in community members, increasing confidence, celebrating creativity and promoting social cohesion amongst participants and audiences alike. Lantern Company events aim to be accessible to those who may not normally access visual or performing arts.

Echelle

 France / UK 

Ron Haselden is an international artist working with light, electronics, sound, film and other materials. He lives and works in London and in Plouër-sur-Rance, France. Haselden was already know in the North of England before Lumiere for his permanent works in Sunderland, Middelsborough and Newcastle. His work ranges in scale from minute photographs to huge performance pieces.

Other installations by Ron Haselden for Lumiere include Eschelle (Lumiere Durham 2009), Fête (Lumiere Durham 2013 and Lumiere Derry-Londonderry 2013), Brothers and Sisters (Lumiere Durham 2011 and Lumiere London 2016) and Diver (Lumiere London 2016).

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Child Hood

Grenoble-based Collectif Coin produce both monumental shows and intimate installations with trans-disciplinary works focusing on the digital arts. With a strong attachment to site-specific art, the French artists explore a dreamy and somewhat naïve vision of the digital technologies that surround us in everyday life through ideas about body, sound and light

The Rose

Artist Stephenson explores issues relating to poverty, sustainability and climate change in his works. Filled with bottles designed during workshops with local school children, The Rose asked us to acknowledge the growing need for alternative technologies to support our everyday lives.

Asalto London

Canogar specialises in photography and video, creating new media installations, photo-murals and site-specific public art projects. His interests lie in themes related to electronic waste, visual excess and the archaeology of new media.

The Light of The Spirit (Chapter 2)

Renowned across the world for his Chromolithe Polychromatic Illumination System, Warrener has created more than 60 chromolithe installations over the last fifteen years, lighting up buildings in close to a dozen different nations.

Ruby, Santiago & Adam: Grey Matters

Emma Allen is a multi disciplined artist and designer specialising in body painting and animation. Her short films and artwork have shown at festivals and galleries worldwide including London, New York and Paris. She has produced Commercial body painting for fashion, film and events including commissions for MTV, Saatchi Gallery, Google, TRAID and campaigns for Cancer Research, Live Life and International Woman’s Day. She also founded and runs an arts charity in Sri Lanka for disadvantaged children.

Eye Love London

The Coca-Cola London Eye lit up the South Bank with a striking dynamic display, custom-designed for Lumiere London 2018, called Eye Love London.

The iconic structure, located on the banks of the river Thames, has been among the UK’s top visitor attractions for more than a decade.

[Light On Their Feet] Foot

David Batchelor’s work includes three-dimensional structures, photographs and drawings, and mostly relate to his long-term interest in colour and the urban environment. He uses a variety of industrial debris to create sculptural installations, breathing new life into the material leftovers of modern life, from factory scrap to disused or broken domestic items. Batchelor reworks these otherwise pedestrian objects into beautifully colourful artworks.

David Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London. In 2013, a major solo exhibition of Batchelor’s two-dimensional work, Flatlands, was displayed at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and toured to Spike Island, Bristol. Batchelor’s work was included in the landmark group exhibition Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015 at Whitechapel Gallery, London. A separate exhibition of Batchelor’s Monochrome Archive (1997-2015) was also on display at Whitechapel Gallery until May 2015.

His portfolio includes a number of major public artworks including a commission for the British Council headquarters in Hong Kong, a site-specific work for the McManus Galleries in Dundee, a 10-metre high light installation at the Archway Tube Station in London, and a major commission for St. Pancras International Station entitled Chromolocomotion.

Batchelor has written and edited a number of books including The Luminous and the Grey (2014), Found Monochromes (2010) and Colour (2008) and Chromophobia (2000).

Thames Pulse

Born on 15th September 1972, Jason Bruges is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in London. Jason’s work blends architecture with interaction design and uses a high-tech, mixed media palette to explore spectacle, time-based interventions and dynamic spatial experiences. He is passionate about creating site-specific pieces that engage people with their environments.Jason Bruges trained as an architect at Oxford Brookes University and the Bartlett School of Architecture, (UCL). He worked with Foster + Partners for three years before moving to Imagination to become a Senior Interaction Designer.

In 2002 Jason set up his own practice and now works with a talented team of people to develop and deliver interactive projects worldwide. The studio comprises of an experienced team of architects, engineers, industrial designers and computational designers as well as specialists in electronics, programming and project management. 

The Wave

VERTIGO creates audiovisual space transformations through interactive video scenography, custom LED light installations and laser visuals. Based in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, the company is known for developing immersive artworks combining light, moving images, sound and the latest technology. The team is specialised in the design and development of both generative art and interactive installations for cultural and communicative purposes. Vertigo’s creations are uniquely built for their intended use, thus they design for indoor and outdoor purposes and in large scale as needed. Among other projects, Vertigo has been most recognized for The Wave – an interactive 3.6 meters high and 80 meters long audible light installation, which has been on display in various European cities. Vertigo is proud to be one of Denmark’s most versatile and experienced companies in the field of interactive digital experiences.

OSC-L

Langheinrich is a visual artist and composer. His work is mainly concerned with non-narrative environments and performances focusing on a specific approach to time, space and body. After studying industrial design, he conducted audio-experiments using pipe organs, harmoniums and multiple tape machine environments, as well as engaging mainly in drawing.

In 1984, the East German-born artist crossed the border to West Germany, where he started to develop the basics of his language in painting, photography and electronic music. Since 2003, he has been realising various large-scale solo projects including Drift, Waveform and Hemisphere. In 2005, he was given a Siemens stipendium (scholarship) and was a “featured artist” at the Ars Electronica Festival.

Sixty Minute Spectrum

David Batchelor’s work includes three-dimensional structures, photographs and drawings, and mostly relate to his long-term interest in colour and the urban environment. He uses a variety of industrial debris to create sculptural installations, breathing new life into the material leftovers of modern life, from factory scrap to disused or broken domestic items. Batchelor reworks these otherwise pedestrian objects into beautifully colourful artworks.

David Batchelor was born in Dundee in 1955 and lives and works in London. In 2013, a major solo exhibition of Batchelor’s two-dimensional work, Flatlands, was displayed at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and toured to Spike Island, Bristol. Batchelor’s work was included in the landmark group exhibition Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015 at Whitechapel Gallery, London. A separate exhibition of Batchelor’s Monochrome Archive (1997-2015) was also on display at Whitechapel Gallery until May 2015.

His portfolio includes a number of major public artworks including a commission for the British Council headquarters in Hong Kong, a site-specific work for the McManus Galleries in Dundee, a 10-metre high light installation at the Archway Tube Station in London, and a major commission for St. Pancras International Station entitled Chromolocomotion.

Batchelor has written and edited a number of books including The Luminous and the Grey (2014), Found Monochromes (2010) and Colour (2008) and Chromophobia (2000).

Raspberry Ripple

Tony Heaton (UK) is a sculptor and performance artist who interweaves disability issues into traditional and discarded materials. With Raspberry Ripple, he plays on the rhyming slang for “cripple” in his work, arguing that “words can oppress but we cripples resurrect it in Crip culture and Crip humour, it’s ours alone to own”.

Tony Heaton has worked in the field of disability, diversity and social justice for his whole career, with experience gathered from working as a Field Officer for RADAR (now Disability Rights UK), Development Officer for NACAB Citizens Advice, Director of Holton Lee and most recently as Chief Executive of Shape Arts, a disability-led arts organisation working with major cultural institutions and disabled people as artists and audiences.

The Umbrella Project

Bristol-based company, Cirque Bijou combine a pioneering spirit with sky-high production values, giving their shows a unique edge. They create shows in myriad environments with and for communities and clients worldwide, with emerging and world class artists and for audiences of 50 to tens of thousands. 

Bottle Festoon

Audiences were invited to bring white or green plastic bottles to drop-in workshops and create glittering, icicle-like chandeliers. These stunning, eco-friendly creations were displayed throughout the festival.