Crown of Light
Ross Ashton, Robert Ziegler, John Del’Nero
Every half hour, 6.30pm – 10.00pm | Palace Green
New Commission
Durham Cathedral has been a place of pilgrimage for a thousand years, its extraordinary architecture and stunning stained glass providing a place of contemplation and sanctury for thousands of visitors every year. Now the building provides the canvas for an ambitious installation which uses the latest technology to transform one of England’s most beautiful Norman buildings into a spectacular illumination, 100m wide.
Projection artist Ross Ashton has worked all over the world, and has been chosen to illuminate buildings from Buckingham Palace to Sunderland Acquatic Centre. Now he is working with composer/arranger Robert Ziegler and sound designer John Del’Nero to create a son et lumière that will take your breath away. Using images drawn from the powerful history of Christianity in the North East, the visual material has been drawn from inside the Cathedral itself and from one of the most richly decorated, and important books of all time, the Lindisfarne Gospels, created in the 7th Century on Holy Island off the Northumbian Coast, and now housed in the British Library.
Your Comments
I really could not let the opportunity pass to congratulate this team on an incredilble show. Powerful, moving and brilliantly executed.
I stood transfixed throug the whole show!
Michael | 14 November 2009 | Newcastle upon Tyne
Artist
Artist
Ross Ashton
Projection
Ross Ashton trained in photography and theatre before becoming an internationally renowned projection artist. Ross specialises in projecting images onto buildings so that the image seems to become part of the architecture. He has created work for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, Rockestra in Malta, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the Sunderland Aquatic Centre and SkyFest in Ireland. He has also lighted iconic buildings such as Chiswick House, the Senate House in Cambridge and Wellington Arch. He recently created Palimpsest for the Pittsburgh Festival of Light during the G20, and Europa Meets Germania, which was one of the major pieces commissioned by the ‘rhienpartie’ in Germany this October.
Robert Ziegler
Music Director
Robert has conducted the Last Night of the Proms in Glasgow for the last four years and worked for the Adelaide Symphony, RTE (Dublin) Concert, New Zealand Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. Robert’s arrangements have been performed by the St Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Chicago, San Francisco, Iceland, Melbourne and Lyon Symphony Orchestras. He has also directed tours with Radiohead, Richard Ashcroft, David Gray and jazz legend Wayne Shorter. His film and TV credits include There Will be Blood, Flashmob – the Opera, De-Lovely and Sense and Sensibility. Robert is currently releasing a disc for Sony/BMG with soprano Frances Bourne.
John Del’Nero
Sound Designer
John started his career in sound working in the West End on shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Billy Liar and the original Rocky Horror Show. He has designed sound for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo for the past 16 years (winning the Kremlin Zoria Gold Plate award) as well as working on celebrations for the Royal Family, the Royal families of Jordan and Saudi Arabia and the VE and VJ celebrations. He is currently the sound designer for Imagination, working for Ford, BT and Coca Cola among others. He is currently working on a new project written for the inmates of HMP Wandsworth.
Associate sound designer: Sebastian Frost.
Location
Palace Green
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Additional information
Visit www.rossashton.com for more information
Special thanks to the British Library for the use of images of the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Photos
Brightening up London, Buckingham Palace
Crown of Light, Durham Cathedral
