West Park, Wolverhampton

I was commissioned by PACA (Public Art Commission Agency) to make several light installations in West Park, Wolverhampton. Inviting artists Mark Anderson, Nick Sales, Kirsten Reynolds and Jony Easterby, I made a series of installations including writing the sentence in luminescent letters under the water of a lake:

Madam Curie’s notebooks were so impregnated with radio-activity that if you place photographic film between the pages and develop it, her ghostly finger prints swim into view.

In another work I invited everyone involved in the project, including the park keepers, to place their face in a back-lit sugar mould to leave their glowing faces in a greenhouse making multiple reflections.

I also asked a local group of model remote-controlled helicopter enthusiasts to attach pyrotechnic waterfalls to their models hovering over the lake. The fuses were electronically ignited so a waterfall appeared to lift out of the lake.

I designed a ballet tutu to be made out of fibre optics so that the undulating points of light were seen to be dancing almost disembodied from the dancer, as she whirled between Mark Anderson’s whirling dervish lights.
I filled the huge Victorian greenhouses with green and blue lit-up balloons and used the greenhouse mechanism to open up the roof to release them.