ABOUT

Lighting Designer and Composer

Qualified Lighting Designer and MMus (Composition) Sydney Conservatorium Of Music
MIES, AssocIALD

Mary-Anne has 10 years of experience in Architectural Lighting Design, including Specialist Lighting, Conceptual Lighting, Lighting Product Design, Lighting Art, Lighting Audits and Lighting Compliance Reports.

Mary-Anne has a keen interest in sustainable design in work and leisure environments. Mary-Anne is interested in the relationship between design + technology + music + science on raising the public’s awareness and appreciation for more creative, interesting and energy efficient built environments and art works.

Mary-Anne is a director of lighting for Meinhardt.

Mary-Anne is the festival director for Smart Light Sydney, a new sustainable light event to be held in Sydney on April 24 - May 3 2009.

Select Publications
 Frankfurt Light + Build http://frankfurt.poloxygen.com  POLOXYGEN Magazine, April 2006
LEDs ,Lighting Today Magazine: Jan-April issue 2006
Article on LEDs www.lightsearch.com/lightnow/news.html - 101k -, LightNow internet magazine 13 Nov 2005.
Launch Pad Design Finalist with LED product range, THE HANDBOOK, Saturday In Design Sydney 2005
Review on Annual Awards and IES dinner, Lighting Art & Science for International Designers, December 2003
Opera Lighting From The Designer World, Lighting Art & Science for International Designers, October 2003

Select Exhibitions, Performance and Conferences

2007 Guitar and Light Concerts in Sydney and Darwin International Guitar Festival

2007 Flight To Light lighting installation held at Bondi Pavilion

2007 Expanded Light Piece for marimba and guitar performance held at Sydney Conservatorium of Music

2007 Milan Design Conference paper “Sustainable Visions: The future for lighting design, Case studies from Australia” Mary-Anne Kyriakou and Karina Clarke
Collage of Light, Solo LED exhibition for the inaugural opening of DABlab (Design Architecture Building Lab) at the University of Technology Sydney , November 2006
Matchbox Projects, Solo gallery LED exhibition at Kudos Gallery COFA, Sydney, November 2006
Tokyo 2005 Paper, unpublished 
MAK light LED table light in group exhibition at Metalab studio and gallery Surry Hills Sydney, November 2005
LED sound and light installation Sydney to Tokyo, Blank_Space Gallery Sydney, 2005.
LED installation at Euroluce Lighting for Saturday in Design, 2005
Conference Paper “Post 9/11 Media language in The Game Master a chamber opera by          Mary-Anne Kyriakou” for Music and Social Change presented at the Sydney Conservatorium Of Music October 2005
Assistant Artistic Director and Lighting Designer for the Opera: The Master Builder, NIDA November 2004
Artistic Director, composer and Lighting Designer for the Opera: Betrayal, Sydney Conservatorium Of Music, September 2004
Free trade concert, Tap GalleryJune 2004
Artistic Director, composer and Lighting Designer for the Opera: The Game Master, Seymour Theatre, September 2003
Bondi Radio sponsored Group exhibition at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery with LightArt series, June 2003.