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

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 - exhibited at Luminous and Vivid Sydney Launch at the Sydney Opera House - March 2009

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

Flight to Light - Inaugural Bondi Pavilion Community Cultural Centre August - September 2007

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

Artist talks were 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