The Studio delivers a variety of projects that provide creative light services to a diverse and high profile list of clients and institutions.
From light to architecture festivals or design and art events, our approach is site-specific, responding to the space and the context to provide innovating light interventions that we describe as the ‘Future of Light’.
Creatmosphere produced a new signage installation at the Saatchi Gallery
for John Morgan Studio, the graphic and identity designers for the annual
Craft Council event, Collect 10.
The project brief was to number each of the exhibition rooms and direct people around the gallery using a 'device' that would not make contact with the gallery walls or ceilings. Using helium filled spheres and lightweight numbers and arrows, Creatmosphere created 27 signage clusters across the three floors of the gallery.
Creatmosphere turned on the lights to a normally unlit part of London, creating a light trail along a stretch of the Regent’s Canal. Working with British Waterways, Camley Street Natural Park and Granary Street Mooring, the light path created connections between the canal's historical infrastructure, architecture and surrounding natural spaces.
For the first time, Creatmosphere worked within a construction site with National Grid and Balfour Beatty who are involved in the King's Cross Central development by lighting up a temporary pontoon on the canal. View here for the National Grid press release.
Download Map of The Light Trail - Map artwork by Carmen Torrecillas
King's Cross Development image coverage of the event
Reveal Festival was produced by Create KX, more information about the festival on www.revealkingscross.org.uk
More pictures on The Light Trail on Regent's Canal Gallery
Creatmosphere was commissioned by Kew Gardens to develop an installation over 16 days within the Grade II listed Nash Conservatory. The project involved participative workshops that explored the basic principles of biodiversity as children helped to create a forest.
The installation responded to the light, spatial charateristics and architecture of the Nash Conservatory, where elements of daylight mapping, shadow, reflection, airflow, and colour were brought together to interact with the artwork created by the children. Dichroic filters were also placed on the conservatory windows, creating coloured patterns of light as daylight moved through the space.
More pictures on the Nash Conservatory Gallery
Creatmosphere produced a one night spectacular for the city of Brighton by lighting up the charred remains of the iconic West Pier. Using 3D mapping
and the latest laser technologies, laser drawings were created on the remaining structure to make it appear and disappear on the horizon.
Creatmosphere was commissioned by Tiger Beer to launch Tiger Lucky Eight,
a unique series of collaborations across the UK in celebration of the
Chinese New Year.
Photograph - Dany Carlyle
More pictures on the A Pier/Appear(s) Gallery
See write up in Mondo Arc & Creative Review
See A Pier/Appear(s) footage
More information about Tiger Lucky Eight
Creatmosphere was commissioned by the Royal Horticulture Society to create a winter light trail for visitors at Wisley Gardens over the festive period. A total of 18 installations, some dynamic and interactive, transformed the gardens natural landscape and architecture with light.
Highlights included the Greenhouse, Laboratory, Canal, an electroluminescent tree and a festive baulbaul tree at the entrance of the gardens.
Photograph - Carol Drew
More pictures on the Lumiere, A Celebration of Light Gallery
Creatmosphere was commissioned by Artichoke to produce an ambitious large-scale installation on the River Wear, Durham, as part of the Lumiere light festival that attracted an estimated 75,000 to the city of Durham.
The 'Flux' installation was a rediscovery of the rivers historical heritage along a 1k walk on the riverbanks where the mills, weirs, and bridges were reconnected in light.
Artistic Director Laurent Louyer also appeared as part of a Sky Arts Documentary of the festival which was broacasted during December 2009.
See Sky Arts for further details.
Lumiere, Durham, 2009, produced by Artichoke in partnership with Sky Arts
Photograph - Andrew Matthews
Read here for Guardian coverage of the event and Creatmosphere
More pictures on the Flux Gallery
Creatmosphere, Audio Architecture and Shroom Studios presented 'The Digital Tea Party' during Tent Digital 09, a new exhibition for Tent London 09, celebrating the best of digital and digitally-enabled design.
The Digital Tea Party is a dynamic installation of immersive media, referring to the house of the future. It explores digital tracking and computer technology to control our local environment through interaction with lo-fi inanimate objects.
See the Digital Tea Party Video
More information on www.digitaltea.co.uk
Creatmosphere was invited by Unterwegstheater Theatre in germany
to create an outdoor light installation for their project Artort 09, a multi-disciplinary public art project that investigated the central square of Heidelberg. The project included elements of choregraphed performance, sound, large-scale projection and lights interventions.
Creatmosphere installed the LIGHT CUBE that investigated the visibility of public space. At night, the square became a large-scale cube of light created by the presence of the audience around and within the LIGHT CUBE. The installation detected the movement of the audience, illuminating only when the audience enter the space, creating an interactive motion-sensor installation.
More information on Artort 09
More pictures on the Light Cube Gallery
Creatmosphere produced ‘The River of Light’, a spectacle of 250 Lun’art light spheres launched on the River Thames at night. As part of a community outreach project, 50 spheres were personalise by children from two local schools.
The spheres were fitted with different coloured light sources to create a unique and changing pattern of colour as the spheres drifted downstream. This event was accompanied by a sound piece created in collaboration with Sound Artist Gerry Kelly.
This project was part of Windsor ‘Light Up’ and was supported by Arts Council England and SEEDA as part of the Cultural Olympiad 2008-12.
See the River of Light Video
More pictures on the River of Light Gallery
For a period of six weeks, Creatmosphere produced a light trail as part of the Windsor Festival 2008 and the opening ceremonies of the Cultural Olympiad 2008-12 for the South East region. Six outdoor light installations connected the historic Windsor Castle with Alexandra Gardens and the Windsor and Eton pedestrian bridge on the River Thames. Innovative lighting effects and dynamic illuminations lit up and animated the local architecture and surrounding gardens to create a unique night-time experience for Windsor’s visitors and residents.
With thanks to Pulsar Lighting, Anolis and Tapelite Lighting
Pictures by Andrew Matthews and Martin Pabois
More pictures on the Windsor Light Up Gallery
Creatmosphere supported Sunand Prasad from Prasad and Peynore Architects and the Capefarewell climate change art project by supplying Lun’art spheres and light materials for use at Disko bay in Greenland. The spheres were used to delineate 540cubic-meter to represent one tonne of Co2, the average monthly per head emission of the UK. It was installed on an Arctic beach by a melting Glacier.
More information on www.capefarewell.com
Creatmosphere presented the Light Cloud at Tent London during the London Design Festival 2008. A 100-meter colour changing installation was suspended in the industrial space of the Truman Brewery.
More pictures on the Tent London Gallery
or on www.flickr.com
The Warbreck Water tank ‘Water is Everywhere’ piece in Blackpool was commissioned to become a permanent scheme for the Festival of Light 2008. The installation displays a continuous dynamic water effect that is projected 360 degrees around the Water tank; it is controlled by an LED ring at the base of the structure to projects the movement and texture of water.
Creatmosphere produced a sample of six 1.5-meter Lun’art helium and electroluminescent spheres during the London Festival of Architecture 2008 at Exhibition Road. The installation represented the concept of ‘Crystal Palace Reappears’ by Peynore and Prasad Architects.
Thanks to Jason Bruges Studio
As part of the redevelopment of King’s Cross, Creatmosphere was commissioned by Argent to design an experimental and conceptual walking trail using the entire two mile building site.
Lun’art helium spheres were used as visual and geographical markers from the sky to indicate the open spaces that were being developed. Eight 2-meter helium and video spheres were used along with twenty-four 1-meter spheres to create an abstract piece of ‘sky mapping’ for people to follow. The event was document from the sky as part of a work in progress.
More pictures on the Argent Commission Gallery
Creatmosphere participated in Luminale 2008, creating a light trail in the city of Russelheim. Based on the idea of exploring past, present and future conditions of the city, Creatmosphere responded to the environment with three different project contexts that involved public participation and interaction on a light trail.
This project was in collaboration with Michael Eibes Studio
More pictures on the Luminale Light Trail Gallery
Commissioned as the first artist in residency in Newham to work on a number of installations to illuminate key public spaces and buildings in Stratford.
A light path between the tube station and the cultural quarter was created using existing elements of the urban landscape in a new way; some trees, an illuminated plant wall, a parking ramp and a residential tower were lit using new lighting technologies.
As part of the Olympic Torch relay, Creatmosphere lit up St John’s church with a simple but dramatic colour scheme inside and out.
Light workshops were also delivered to local schools as part of an educational outreach project.
More pictures on the Stratford Light Commissions Gallery
The Breathing trees were installed in Pottersfield Park as part of Switched on London 2008.
More information on www.breathingtrees.com
Creatmosphere was commissioned to light up the dramatic interiors of the
Ex-Commonwealth Institute for an architectural photo-shoot to market and promote this unique listed building.
Picture by James Newton
More pictures on the Ex-Commonwealth Institute Gallery
Creatmosphere used a simple three-colour scheme to light up five 30-meter London Plane trees visible from High Street Kensington and Holland Park over the Christmas period.
Creatmosphere created an immersive large-scale video installation for the British Library exhibition ‘Breaking the Rules’. The installation responded to the scale of the main hall with multi-screen video projections and Lun’art projection spheres of 1 to 4-meter in diameter.
This project was in collaboration with the Future of Sound
Visuals in collaboration with VJ artist Pablo Fiasco
See the Lun'art video:
Part 1
Part 2
More Pictures on the British Library Gallery
and on www.flickr.com
Creatmosphere was commissioned by Create KX to create a site-specific, light and video installation at an ancient Waterpoint and at Camley Street Natural
Park. This project was presented as part of the opening of the new Eurostar terminal at Saint Pancras International Station, during the cultural arts event ‘Arrivals’.
Project was financed by London Cross Rail, Eurostar and
Arts Council England
See the Waterpoint Video
More Pictures on the Waterpoint Gallery
Creatmosphere was commissioned by the Big Chill Festival to create an installation on a lake that is at the heart of the festival. Creatmosphere product the ‘light tube’ were used for this installation which saw vibrant coloured light tubes stretched across the lake.
More Pictures on the Big Chill Festival 2007 Gallery
Creatmosphere created a series of lighting installations under the archways of Newcastle City for the Glow Festival 2006. Exploring the themes of transition and passage, railway arches and their surrounding areas were made interactive and dynamic by the passing public.
‘Light’ workshops were also presented involving participation from the public.
Project was organise by NVA arts consultants and financed by NewcastleGateshead.
Creatmosphere curated a lighting exhibition at the Trumen Brewery, selecting 20 international light pieces to showcase Light 06. The exhibition brought a number of young and emerging light artists together to promote new designs and inventions within the industry.
Light 06 was produced in association with Jimmy MacDonald, Director of
100% East.
See Exhibition slideshow and Exhibitor List on www.light06.com
Creatmosphere was commissioned by the Big Chill Festival to create an installation on a lake that is at the heart of the festival. A total of 12 Lun'art spheres were installed creating dramatic impact on the landscape during the day and night.
More Pictures on the Big Chill Festival 2006 Gallery
