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Mary-Anne Kyriakou is the

2008 and 2009 Artist in Residence at 72 Erskine Street Sydney and new works explore sustainable lighting themes expressed through music and architectural lighting

May 2008 - June 2009 Recipient of the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Music Composer Fellowship

2009 Festival Director and Founder of the Smart Light Sydney festival www.smartlightsydney.com

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

November 2008 - February 2009 'Flight to Light' sound and light installation will tour the new Dubbo regional art gallery


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

Photo taken by Emmaline Waclik (above) Adammada (below) from Spheres of Light and Plato 2008, Image from a performance evening Cherie Valaray Soprano, John Dewhurst Vibes, Roland Peelman Piano

Flight to Light - will tour Dubbo Regional Art Gallery November 2008 - February 2009


Friday August 31 to Sunday September 9 2007

Bondi Pavilion Community Cultural Centre

Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach  NSW 2026
tel. 8362 3400  fax. 8362 3420
e-mail: bondipav@waverley.nsw.gov.au    
                     

Mary-Anne Kyriakou was invited to create a work that would be part of the Festival of the Winds Festival program for September 9 2007.

The exhibition has two components where Bondi Pavilion has contributed the Flight component and the images explore the history of kites that include some images of past Festival of Winds events.

The Light and Sound component is by Mary-Anne Kyriakou and puts forward an urban landscape suggesting how Bondi may be transformed in two hundred years. This installation and work has been prepared specifically for the Bondi Pavilion gallery space.

The Light sculpture Bondi 2200 in Utopia 2007 is a series of Perspex cubes that represent futurist housing development in Bondi. The low energy LED lighting orbs inside the cube suggesting life form and also emotional space versus digital space. The installation consumes 80W of electrical energy and is controlled by a lighting program by Color Kinetics. Xenian Light are the major sponsor and supporter of this work.

The slide work titled Inside the cube 2007 is a series of 16 images produced in the lighting program AGI 32. This is a lighting tool used by the artist in her day to day work as a lighting designer for calculating and rendering lighting scenes. These images represent the emotion of how it may feel to live inside this styled development.

The music composition  titled Take me somewhere else 2007 2min and 12seconds is produced in a music software program and the guitar and keys is written and performed by Mary-Anne Kyriakou. The music has elements that are based in current times as well as futurist sounds that support the notion of a futurist aural landscape.

The Exhibiton Opening is on Tuesday September  4, 2007 and there will be a violin performance  and artist  talk by Mary-Anne Kyriakou at 6:30pm.

Artist talks will be also held on Saturday September  8, 2007  at 11:00am and 1:45pm.

Flight to Light

Photos taken by Mary-Anne Kyriakou from Flight to Light 2007, Image of cubes with refraction

Excerpt taken from Cream magazine 10th Anniversary Issue


Above:Photo taken by Douglas Frost from Spheres of Light and Plato 2008, Image of cube and Emmaline Waclik in Plato's Cave. Design by MAK

Photo taken above and below by Douglas Frost from Spheres of Light and Plato 2008, Materials are LED from Xenian Light (Color Kinetics) and Wool and timber sculpture. Design by MAK