Curriculum Vitae
Blue Dreamer, Wolf at the
Door, 19951
M5 Weston
Brief Biography:-
I create light sculptures and installations that celebrate light and articulate public spaces in positive and surprising ways. My aim is to use new emerging lighting and interactive technologies to to put visual vitality into the built environment.
Born in Manchester UK, I first saw the light on the annual church trips to the Blackpool illuminations. I made my first light sculptures studying for a Fine Arts Degree at Bristol Polytechnic in the 1970's. On a visit to Las Vegas, I was inspired by the colour and scale of the incredible neon architecture and set out to learn the craft of making neon. I studied neon glass blowing for 2 years before setting up my first lighting studio in London in 1983 with the help of the Crafts Council. My first pieces were one off neons for shops, architectural commissions and private clients. In 1991 I completed an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. In 1993 I moved to the the Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall from where I continue to light up the skylines of the UK and Europe, creating light sculptures and architectural lighting installations now using a wide variety of light forms including neon, led, floodlights, and fibre-optics.
..White
Christmas, Tate Gallery St Ives, 1997.
Born:
1956 Manchester U.K.
Education:
1979 BA Hons, Fine Art sculpture, Bristol Polytechnic.
1991 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University College of London.
Awards:
1986 Crafts Council Setting-Up award for neon.
1996 S.W. Arts Research Award (fibre optics)
2002 S.W. Arts Artists Award.
Trees
of Light, Highbury Corner, London, 1995-99.
Recent public art commissions:
2007 Exchange - Interactive architectural LED installation for Arts Council Gallery in Penzance.
2007 Radiance - Interactive LED installation for the Light Box Woking.
2006 Elements - Text Message LED installation for Broadway and St Peters Bridge, Maidstone.
2006 PrismDancer - Interactive chandelier, Shirehall Gallery, Stafford.
2006 Light Weave - Art for life, Qpark, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.
2006 Light Cloud - Neon installation for Oldham Library and Learning Centre.
2005 Light Flo - LED installation for a new student accomodation in Bristol
2004 Travelling Light, Junction21 M5 motorway, RGB led column, 13.5 metres high.
2004 Light Engine, Locomotion NRM Shildon, 6 m high, Luxeon LED and mirror stainless steel sculpture for the Locomotion railway museum.
2004 Spectra-txt, Middlesbrough, Text interactive 10m high, fibre-optic and mirror stainless steel column in the centre of town.
2003 Pulse, Rochdale, Pulses to the beat of the street, 6m motion sensitive LED column in busy nightclub area of the town.
2002 Luminous Motion, Winchester Cathedral grounds, interactive fibre-optics and mobile telephone 6 metres high mirror stainless steel tower.
2002 Lighthouse, Poole Arts Centre, Interactive neon and floodlight facade for the refurbished arts centre.
2002 Ribbon of Light, Maternity Unit, Kings Hospital London, colour changing fibre-optic and stainless steel ribbon,13 metre high.
2002 The Light Loves You, Escape and Light Shift, neon intallations, Gallery Oldham.
2001 Glamrocks, Blackpool South Shore promenade, Fibre-optic forms.
2001 Lightcube, Exchange roundabout, Skelmesdale, fibre-optic light tower.
2000 Central garden, Bournemouth, 12 metre animated neon light tower.
2000 Fire in the Heart, Warwick University, Arts Centre, Fibre-optic light installation.
1999-1995 Trees of Light, Highbury Corner Tree Dressing, London.
1998 Northern Quarter, Illuminated radio mast ,12mtrs, Manchester.
1997 White Christmas, Christmas fibre optic installation, Tate Gallery St Ives.
1995 Tate gallery St. Ives,Christmas Light project.
Light
at the End of the Tunnel, A quality of light, 1997.
Selected exhibitions:
2006 Postcard from St Ives, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives.
2005 Chemistry of colour Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset.
2002 Light , Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Cornwall.
2002 Mathematique, Danielle Arnaud Gallery London.
1999 Illumination, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.
1997 A quality of light, St Ives International, Cornwall.
1993 On The Edge, Crafts Council Gallery and touring.
1991 Configura 1, Erfurt, Germany.
1988 Hacienda night club, Manchester.
1988 New Spirit, Crafts Council, London.
Peter Freeman Amalwyn Nancledra Penzance Cornwall TR20 8LJ telephone 01736 796941 email peter@peterfreeman.co.uk web site www.peterfreeman.co.uk
