Make the most of the dark winter evenings with two magical light installations on the North Front and Amphitheatre, specially created by international light artist Bruce Munro. View two amazing time-lapse videos of the creation of Blue Moon on a Platter and Angel of Light
Both time-lapse films will be showing on a loop in the Power House from now until 1 January 2013.
Bruce Munro is one of the most exciting artists in the rapidly evolving field of light sculpture. UK audiences may already be familiar with his work at the Holburne Museum in Bath in 2011, where he created Field of Light, an enchanting outdoor installation which in many ways inspired the invitation to work with us at Waddesdon. Until October 2012 his work was also show-cased at a major critically acclaimed exhibition, 'Light' at Longwood Gardens, Pensylvania PA, one of the most prestigious botanical gardens in the USA. To find out more about Longwood please see www.longwoodgardens.org
He has been commissioned to create two new works for us, 'Blue Moon on a Platter' and 'Angel of Light' for the Christmas season, with further commissions for the Gardens and Coach House coming in 2013/2014.
'Blue Moon on a Platter' is made of thousands of second-use CDs pinned to the undulating banks of the Amphitheatre, which measures 28 meters across. In the centre, a 'Moon' holds 150 spheres containing coiled optic fibres within them. These glow with a changing palette of light, which is passed along the fibre optics via a metal halide projector. The 'moonlight' refracts and glitters across the CDs spreading in a carpet around it. Families are already enjoying the mysterious glow on their way to the Willow Reindeer Trail in the children's Woodland Playground.
The second piece is 'Angel of Light' which was created by laying out approximately 50,000 CDs in a precise radial pattern across the North Front immediately in front of the House. Made with the help of a team of volunteers and inspired by Finnish composer Einujohani Rautavaara's Symphony No 7, of the same name, visitors can walk through and around the work, which is illuminated at night by two concentric rings of battery-powered candle lanterns.
Find out more about Bruce Munro and his works at www.brucemunro.co.uk
Garden open 10am-5pm, Wed-Sun throughout the Christmas season. For full opening times please see Christmas Tickets and Times