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In A Different Light: The Illuminarium Launches This Month

The Illuminarium is an ambitious, digital moving image installation by artists Chloe Rodham and Tim Lozinski and is set to dazzle and astonish crowds when it launches in Hexham and Newcastle this winter.

Described as an Alice and Wonderland-esque experience, the exhibition - showing at Queen’s Hall Arts Centre in Hexham and shortly after at the Toffee Factory in Newcastle - promises to take visitors on a trip through the life cycle of one of the world’s most mysterious creatures: the moth, with an immersive exhibition of luminous sculptures.

With the use of multiple projections, sound and stop-motion animation the beautifully crafted models are sure to enchant and engage audiences.

Chloe Rodham is a talented Northumberland-based emerging artist who specialises in combining traditional stop-motion techniques and model-making with digital creative processes. She explains: “Illuminarium will engage audiences with a unique view of the world through the poetry of its smallest inhabitants.

“With glowing fibre-optic caterpillars and cocoon shaped lanterns, our exhibition will reveal a projected stop-motion animation of moths.”

Tim Lozinski a 3D artist, animator and game developer says: “I really wanted to work on a more ‘hands-on’ project and this particular installation and body of work will allow me to do just that. I enjoy tinkering with electronics and optics and so my modelling work on The Illuminarium will focus on those aspects of the piece.

“Sound will complete the Illuminarium, with a murmuring atmosphere nature sounds adding to the experience. This installation will be a bright and colourful multimedia spectacle creating an artificial version of a natural habitat. We hope our work will help audiences see moths in a completely different light.”

You have two opportunities to experience The Illuminarium later this year when it opens at Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham from 24 October - 28 November 2015 and then at the Toffee Factory in Newcastle from 10-12 December 2015.

There will be an associated series of talks and workshops led by the artists at both the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre and the Toffee Factory.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Jon Corbett .