THE GLOW PROJECT

London was glowing last weekend extending from Thursday into four evenings of pure light and delight! Some of London's most famous locations were transformed into light installations for the "Lumiere Festival" which ended on Sunday 17 January.

One event in particular caught my attention. The company Ocubo projected a show called “The Circus of Light”, a magical animation projected onto the side of the Granary Building using the faces of some of the people living and working in the area.

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This nocturnal vision took me back 13 years, to when I set Brighton alight with my own light projections which told the story of some of Brighton's residents and the world-famous Royal Pavilion.

The Glow Project as I entitled it was an after-dark large scale multimedia art event where treasured images were contributed by local people and artists and projected on to Adelaide Crescent, a mid-19th century residential development in Hove. The Glow Project tapped into the emotional lives of people who lived behind the walls on which the projections were shinning, illuminating their stories outside in the city.

The Glow project aimed to bring a whole community together and enable the celebration of individual creativity and experiences in a shared setting.

The following day, I projected a 100 metres long visual narrative onto the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.

With the help of the Royal Pavilion’s archive, I collected rare and unreleased images of old prints, artworks, objects and projected them onto the building itself in front of a wide-eyed audience.

Blissful memories