Mary-Anne Kyriakou
2009 Festival Director and Founder of the Smart Light Sydney festival www.smartlightsydney.com also take a look at Vivid Sydney at www.vividsydney.com, And blog site and FaceBook sites are on-line now.
Featured during April 2009 ABC Radio Into the Music Program Peggy's Hothouse produced by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald and presented by Robyn Johnston, presenter of Into The Music.
A fascinating insight into Australia's only dedicated composers' house, which has become a hothouse of musical creativity, celebrating the generous vision of one of Australia's first international composers, Peggy Glanville-Hicks.
Her former home, a bohemian terrace house with a chandelier and Grecian mural in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, has become a unique and inspirational musical environment where 18 of our finest composers have lived and worked since 1990, in a series of composer residencies.
The program also explores the challenges for women composers through the experiences of five former residents: Elena Kats-Chernin, Liza Lim, Mary-Anne Kyriakou, Ros Bandt, and Mary Finsterer, who have followed in the giant footsteps of Peggy Glanville-Hicks.
Featured in article by keith gallasch: festival of music, light & ideas for Real Time Arts magazine and also on the internet please go to http://www.realtimearts.net/article/90/9396 and read about Smart Light Sydney and festival activities.
2009 new Light and Sound works for UTS Art Light Symposium for Smart Light Sydney and new work for Customs House as part of Smart Light Sydney http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/research/conferences/smartlight/artists.html
2008 and 2009 Artist in Residence at 72 Erskine Sydney and new works explore sustainable lighting themes expressed through music and architectural lighting www.72erskine.com
May 2008 - June 2009 Recipient of the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Music Composer Fellowship (Thanks Peggy and the Trust) http://pghcomposershouse.com
March 2009 Participant in Matchbox Projects At The Vanishing Point, 565 King Street Newtown Sydney www.matchboxprojects.com.au
DVD's available of 'Spheres of Light and Plato' and 'Protoganist' produced during 72 Erskine Artist Residency and PGH Residency
Dubbo Western Plains Cultural Centre Facade Lighting Treatment December 2008 - February 1, 2009 design by Mary-Anne Kyriakou and sponsored by Xenian Light
November 2008 - February 2009 'Flight to Light' sound and light installation toured Dubbo Western Plains Cultural centre
March 2008 New book publication of paper "Sustainable Visions:The future for lighting design case studies from Australia" written by Karina Clarke and Mary-Anne Kyriakou 2007
"Designing Designers:Light as architectural matter-Lighting design" International Conference of University Courses in Design 2007 Edited by Maurizio Rossi, Francesco Scullia Publisher Edizioni Poli.Design March 2008

Photo taken by Douglas Frost from Spheres of Light and Plato 2008, Image of cubes and Step Ladder in Plato's Cave.
Special thanks to Rick Cale from Xenian Light and Mike Day from UTS for Cube construction assistance. Installation design MAK