In 2016 the Art Director Andy Williams approached me to create a visualisation of a lighting display system to be hung in the Drum Corridor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
This would consist of 37 lights, which were to be 'sandwiched' between two acrylic disks which would be etched on the outer with the plays title and could hold a circular printed image from that particular play relating to it's most recent season. The 37 units were to represent the Folios of William Shakespeare and my visualisation was to be presented so that this project could receive sign off from the Theatre as well as the local council as the building is listed.
This would consist of 37 lights, which were to be 'sandwiched' between two acrylic disks which would be etched on the outer with the plays title and could hold a circular printed image from that particular play relating to it's most recent season. The 37 units were to represent the Folios of William Shakespeare and my visualisation was to be presented so that this project could receive sign off from the Theatre as well as the local council as the building is listed.
Photoshop composition showing proposed lighting display units insitu.
Above you can see the initial sketch I was given to work from and the prototype wire frames and renders with lit gobo that was to project the name on the floor of the corridor and a forest of light created which you would walk through.
The finished lighting system.
Above is the finished lighting system which was completed late 2019, you can see the gantry attached to the ceiling that was specially engineered to hang the lights from, the gobos have were not used in the end.
