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Peter Fordham delivered a presentation “Revealing The Secrets of The Mary” at the Designers With Light Forum, part of the May Design Series 2014, in London’s Excel Centre. We were delighted to share the presentation with Christopher Dobbs, Head of Interpretation at The Mary Rose Trust.
Dale Chihuly’s piece, currently on display in London
Simon Marks, DHA Designs lighting designer, recently illuminated Dale Chihuly’s striking piece of art for the Halcyon Gallery in Berkeley Square. Made from over 1,500 hand-made pieces of glass, the sculpture is a perfect example of Dale Chihuly’s massing of colour that he uses in his pieces to such incredible effect. Simon worked closely with Halcyon to ensure the lighting on the piece gave it the right eye-catching qualities, without flattening the sculpture. Instead, the colours and texts of the piece are brought out to stunning effect, resulting in the beautiful image taken by Paul Brown of Demotix for Mondo*Arc magazine.
DHA have worked with Chihuly Studios in the past, including his chandelier at the V&A Museum & incredible flower installation in the lobby of the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas.
The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth has been shortlisted for the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014, along with five other museums. The judges will announce the winner at the awards ceremony on 09 July in London. DHA Designs designed the lighting for the museum, winning the Public Building category of this years Lighting Design Awards.
DHA director, Jonathan Howard, was asked to speak at the recent Museums Association conference, Bright Ideas, held at the Royal College of Surgeons in London on April 30th. The conference aimed to explore the impact of new legislation & technological innovations on current museum lighting.
Chaired by Jill Entwistle, editor of the Lighting Journal, the speakers covered a wide range of topics in technical & artistic approaches to lighting practice today. Jonathan joined other members of the lighting community, including Kevan Shaw (KSLD), Stephen Cannon-Brookes (CB Lighting), Arfon Davies (Arup), George Sexton (Geo. Sexton Associates) & David Saunders (British Museum), and give a review of recent DHA projects that used a variety of light sources in museum environments, including our work on the Mary Rose Museum & the Navy, Nelson & Nation Galleries at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
The talk was well attended by members of the museum community, and the quantity and technical nature of the questions asked by many delegates at the end of the presentations showed that lighting is a key area of interest to museum professionals.
A review of the conference can be found in the July/August edition of the Lighting Journal.
We are delighted to hear that the new Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, lit by DHA Designs, has won both the Civic Trust Award and the Michael Middleton Special Award.
This prestigious award is a memorial and tribute to Michael Middleton CBE, who established the Civic Trust Awards in 1959 and is awarded to a restoration project or new build within a conservation area.
Congratulations to the architects Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Pringle Brandon Perkins + Wills, together with the team at the Mary Rose Trust.