Crown of Light - Durham 2011

Crown of Light - Durham Lumiere

As part of Durham's Lumiere Festival I will be repeating the large scale installation, "Crown of Light".


The piece celebrates Durham Cathedral and its close relationship with the Lindisfarne Gospels.
The piece was created with Robert Ziegler and John DelNero.  Last time, 70,000 patient people waited in the rain over 4 nights to watch.  I hope that we will get as many visitors this time.


According to Artichoke, the organisers, the piece is back "by popular demand", which is great.


If you around for the festival, do drop into the control cabin and say hello.
The dates are the 17th to the 20th November 2011.

Update!

Its been a busy year up to now and keeping up with the blog slipped far to far down the "To Do" list. However if you have a moment here is a quick update (In No Particular Order!).


The big news is that I have been comisioned to create a projection artwork for the front of Buckingham Palace for "Face Britain". For the full story on "Face Britain" click here.


Last year I created the first outdoor video projection son et lumiere in India called "Ishq-e-Dilli" This was honoured with an award this spring. See the write up here. I'm the guy in the embarrassing trews!


We have opened an office in India to respond to Indian customers who want to use our skils for their events.   This company is called Tricolor India and is based near Delhi.


We are just back from Malta having worked on Rockestra again.  A great time was had by all, although Malta in August is HOT!  No write up yet, I'll publish it when its written up.

August is also the season of the Edinburgh Tattoo, which uses 4 PIGI slide projectors.
This was a landmark year with new stands and a new director.


Later this year I will return to Durham to repeat "Crown of Light" for the Lumiere Festival.  This is projection across the entire facade of Durham Cathedral.


Thats a quick update.  I promise to keep up to date!


Ross

White Light Open Day

Its White Lights 40^th year.

To celebrate this, they are hosting an open afternoon on Thursday 21^st July.

They also promise a BBQ.

The Projection Studio will be there as well as many other manufacturers.

So come along and meet us all.

The invite is HERE

Pavilion of Dreams from Ross Ashton on Vimeo.

This was created for Enchanted Parks in Gateshead. Yet another freezing gig with over a foot of snow! Anyway, the idea was to reinterpret the bowling pavilion at Saltwell Park with a series of themes taken from Fairy Tales. I think it worked well. We had great problems as the layers of snow threw out the mapping. Still, for a small artwork I am quite satisfied with the result. I hope you like it.

16th Arab Media Awards

The reason for being out in Cairo is that the Projection Studio was in invited to produce an opening spectacular for the Arab Media Awards which was broadcast live to 18 countries across the Middle East. The projection was carried out using PIGI and we made the entire show in 14 days. We had some fun and games on the event. The temperature was very low at night with a chill wind, consequently we froze!

Santa's Camel - Merry Christmas

Santa's Camel - Merry Christmas, originally uploaded by Ross Ashton.

Well I've been very lazy these past few weeks and haven't kept up with the blog. In the meantime I have done several pieces of work. I promise that I will catch up before the new year, but in the meantime, Merry Christmas.

I just hope I can get home from Cairo in time to have one....

Grow Happy Rose

Rose - Rose Garden, originally uploaded by Ross Ashton.

I have just come across the blog of the writer Martyn Clayton.
He has written a beautiful description of "Rose" from the point of view of a member of the public. Karen and I both appreciated his thoughts and you can find them here.