Kyriakou & Snell
Doves that Cry
Using the qualities of light and sound and black space, this installation creates a room within customs house displaying white-lit dove forms that emerge and pass through a cavernous space.
What’s Smart?
Doves that Cry makes use of reflection to increase the impact of the lighting effect. LED lamps have been retro fitted to symbolise the Doves, these have low power consumption to create a dramatic effect.
About the artists
Mary-Anne Kyriakou is the Founder and Artistic Director of Smart Light Sydney. She is both a lighting designer and music composer. Mary-Anne is the current recipient of the Peggy Glanville Hicks Music Composer Fellowship and is Artist in Residence at the 72 Erskine art and event space, Sydney. Mary-Anne is an International Lighting Director for Meinhardt Light Art and Founder of the Lighting Division for Meinhardt Consulting Engineers. Her work explores relationships between light and music in architectural space.
Joe Snell is the Creative Manager of the Smart Light Sydney 2009 Festival. Joe is a Director of Snell Architects, with current projects in hospitality, commercial, retail, housing and residential. In architecture, He focuses on sustainability, gradation, overt surveillance, grayscale, calibration, seen sound, repetition and responsive environments. He has a B.Arch and a B.Sc(Arch) from the University of Sydney. Joe also studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
Sponsors
Black commercial lighting grade Acrylic and LEDs:
Xenian
LEDs and light fixtures:
Euroluce
Lighting Controls
Philips Dynalite
Piano:
Theme and Variations
