Lightscape Artist

Singing Trees

Singing Trees

Singing Trees wrapped with small strings of light spheres react to the sound of music. Programmed to a choir of voices with crescendos building from the bottom of the tree to the tips of its branches.

ITHACA Studio
A group of award-winning experimenters who combine art, music and technology to make magical experiences with sound and light. ITHACA Studio specializes in outdoor installations combining light art, music and sound design. Since 2012 they’ve been creating site-specific work that appeals to multi-demographic audiences. Building on their foundations as a creative audio-visual production studio, they are interested in the opportunities presented by remixing technology and narrative in new ways and unusual locations. ITHACA Studio is based in Brighton, UK and Chicago, US.

Shadow Play

Reflections

ColorStorm

Shadow Play

Enter a place where physics meets art and art meets fun. Where lighting appears neutral until you enter - and then your shadows are fractured into magical colors.

Reflections

Six foot high light battens change color in waves, creating a dynamic light show.

ColorStorm

The McGinley Pavilion is the place to be! Get the party started. Head along the tunnel and hit the dance floor with moving lights overhead created from pixel chandeliers. This is also the place to roast some smores.

Trail lighting

Travis Shupe
A Freelance Lighting Director, Programmer and Production Electrician based in Chicago, IL. He works at Schuler Shook as a Project Lighting Designer in Architecture Lighting Design. Travis has worked on the lighting for large scale events, films, TV, and live broadcasts including The Oprah Winfrey Show. From 2005-2018 Travis spent his summers at The Santa Fe Opera as the Production Electrician. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Lighting Design from the University of Northern Colorado.

Lee Fiskness
A freelance Lighting Designer based out of Chicago. He primarily designs for live entertainment in the performing arts; theatre, opera, music, exhibitions, museums, as well as broadcast television and studio design. Lee was the Lighting Director at The Santa Fe Opera and was working with the company for 18 seasons. Lee has taught at Columbia College and Northwestern University. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from Northwestern University. Lee is a proud union member of USA (United Scenic Artist).

Christopher Wren
A scenic and lighting designer whose work spans corporate events, parties, dance, theatre, and immersive installations. As the founder of Keylight, Inc. (est. 2010), he blends conceptual creativity with a strong technical foundation, creating dynamic environments that unite art and precision.

Meadow of Light

Meadow of Light

Thousands of twinkling fibre optic blades of light move in waves across the ground.

Lightworks
Based in Scotland, Lightworks has been creating award winning site responsive lighting design, immersive light art and spectacular show pieces together since 2013. Their work takes them all over; from rooftops to woodlands, military bases to museums where they specialize in blurring the lines between different creative media. Their mission is always to create experiences an audience will never forget.

Fire Garden

Fire Garden

Fifteen sculptural Christmas trees with each branch decorated with real flames combined with six pixel trees create this year’s spectacular fire garden.

Trail lights

The trail is proudly designed and created by Culture Creative; a company celebrated for its innovative light trails worldwide.

Culture Creative
A creative project and production management company based in England. The Company works across a wide range of cultural fields including art, sport, heritage, tourism, festivals and events, developing projects from concept to delivery. Since 2013 Culture Creative has worked closely with Sony Music to create Lightscape and Christmas themed trails in various venues across the UK and overseas.

The Departure

The Departure

10 illuminated dolphins skim the surface of the water. Catching a glimpse of a wild dolphin pod is always an exhilarating experience and people often feel closely connected to these animals. While this can be an enchanting experience, looking closer the beautiful glow of the dolphins’ surface has a slightly dappled or marbled appearance due to the amount of digested plastic waste it has ‘consumed’, drawing attention to the problems caused by plastic waste.

Studio Vertigo
An art and design collective based in the UK and founded by artists Lucy McDonnell and Stephen Newby to explore the relationship between objects, viewers and their environment. The studio creates light installations and sculpture for international exhibition. Their work can be seen this year at various light festivals around the UK, Amsterdam Light Festival, Lightworks Copenhagen and Vivid Sydney.

Winter Walk

Winter Walk

Follow a trail of winter wildlife projected onto the garden path, including a winter hare, a large robin redbreast and colorful berries that brighten up a snowy winter scene.

NOVAK
An innovative creative studio specializing in immersive experiences and beautifully crafted digital media. Their work transforms museums, galleries, stage productions, visitor attractions, and cultural events, creating impactful and memorable moments that captivate audiences. NOVAK’s portfolio spans major exhibitions such as The Book of Kells Experience (Trinity College Dublin), The Lindisfarne Gospels (Laing Art Gallery), and Dippy on Tour (Great North Museum, Newcastle), with their expertise extending to large-scale, site-specific installations showcased at global arts events like Lumiere, Edinburgh International Festival, Christmas at Kew, Brighton Festival, Light Night Leeds, and Singapore Night Festival. In theatre and dance, they have brought stories to life through acclaimed productions, including Doctor Who: Time Fracture, The Paddington Bear Experience, and Beautiful Thing (GDIF, London).

Illusion Hole

Illusion Hole

The No. 6 artwork of the ‘Use Your Illusion’ series. Since UxU studio began to create this series of artworks using meteor lights, they always have been curious how the visitor experiences the flowing light. According to UxU, light is not a substance, but can be transformed to certain things to produce meaning. Through the geometrically arranged pattern, it seems that the water formed by light is flowing into to an unknown black hole. When we watch the flowing light, do we really care about the existence of the river underneath? Or, do we treat the false as true, through which the real becomes false?

UXU Studio
Founded in 2011 by Kuan-Hung Chen and Ying-Chu Chen, is a Taiwanese collective of architects, designers, and artists. Their experimental, multidisciplinary approach leads to surprising (light)objects, which are often made of simple and ordinary materials. Sometimes, this results in big installations to wander in or just to quietly sit in. Other times, they enlarge or reduce a recognizable thing or image to a surrealistic size.

Light A Wish

Light A Wish

Make a wish before you blow the fluff from a dandelion into the air—everyone knows this game. OGE Group’s Light a Wish visualises the moment the seeds ispelrse in the air, taking your wish with them into the world. The enlarged, fuzzy seeds—of which there are 10 in total and measure 2 metres in height – dangle carefully in the air and glow in a way that makes it look as though they are breathing. With Light a Wish the artists visualise the good intentions that we quietly release and (hopefully) encounter again in the future. In this way the illuminated dandelion puffballs are carriers of our deepest desires and dreams. In the old days, blowing dandelion seeds into the air was also done as a superstitious act: the number of seeds that remained signified the number of years you had to wait to get married, how many children you would have with your loved one, or how many years you still had to live. But before we can take a look in the future, we have to wait a little longer for spring.

OGE Group
Israeli artist Merav Eitan (1974) and German artist Gaston Zahr (1975) are trained architects. While Eitan studied at the art academy in Jerusalem, Zahr studied at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus. In 2007 they founded their design studio OGE Group in Haifa and became the artistic directors of the Jerusalem Light Festival. OGE Group has designed several light artworks that aim to evoke an emotion from the viewer in a playful way, sometimes through an interaction of sorts and other times by recalling memories and experiences.

Light as a Feather

Light as a Feather

Each unique feather in this installation is handcrafted using a steel rod and painted to glow pure white at night. They twist and turn gracefully, as though lifted by a sudden gust of wind, slowing your step and spreading a sense of tranquillity throughout the space.

Pyrite Creative
Actively building light installations for illuminated trails since 2017. From their base in the heart of the Cotswolds they develop their own concepts or collaborate with others, using their extensive experience to turn ideas into reality. The Pyrite workshop is a multidisciplinary space where all manner of weird and wonderful sculptures are born.

Herbum

Herbum

Herbum is a plant or rather a grass tuft with stems stretching up to 8m high. This incredible phenomenon has stunning red or blue luciolas at the end of its stems that making it shine in the wind.

TILT
A French artistic studio created in 2001 that focuses on the exploration of light and its interplay with art, architecture and space. Their work encompasses all aspects of light art, and is inspired by nature or everyday objects which are thought to create a dreamlike universe made of humor and poetry.

Singularity

Singularity

Singularity is built within an 8m diameter geodesic full dome. In mathematics and physics a singularity is a point of extreme variability where normal rules no longer apply, where change, transition, unpredictability and the unknown become the norm, where our models of behavior break down and our expectations are confounded. Singularities exist at the limits of our understanding – from distant and abstract phenomena such as the beginning of the universe and black holes through to the more familiar and every-day, for example weather patterns. Singularity represents a hypothetical technological singularity, an imagined point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization.

Squidsoup
A UK-based international group of artists, researchers, technologists and designers working with digital and interactive media experiences. Their work combines physical and dynamic digital spaces with novel and intuitive forms of interaction to produce immersive, responsive and beguiling experiences. Squidsoup has exhibited across the globe at a broad range of events and locations, including Burning Man, Sydney Opera House, SIGGRAPH, Usina del Arte (Buenos Aires) Sundance (USA) and others.

Bright Blooms & Growing Pines

Bright Blooms & Growing Pines

Large oversized flowers in every color stand proud amongst the dark green pine trees in the garden.

JIGANTICS
A UK based light art studio founded by artist Jig Cochrane, that creates unique giant illuminated flower sculptures. Jigantics was set up by Jig Cochrane in 2007 after 20 years working in illuminated arts and community arts projects worldwide. He was co-founder of Rise Phoenix (Balkans children arts charity 1991 to 2001) and the giant puppet project in Cambodia 2007 (still active). In 2007 Jig began building and designing a forest of flowers and now owns one of the largest collection of illuminated flowers worldwide.

Bluebonnets

Bluebonnets

The Bluebonnets light installation bathes the landscape in bold blue and white light. As the installation begins to breathe, you are led to believe the flowers wish to dance through the night with the illusion of movement and depth throughout the display.

Fountains. Lights overhead fall like jets of water that splash against the side of the path.

Mandylights
Since 2006, Australian lighting designers Mandylights have created incredible concert, broadcast theatre, special event, and light artwork experiences in over 50 countries around the world.

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