Artists

By City Moves Dance Company SPECTRA festival favourites return with a newly choreographed dance performance created especially for this year’s 10th anniversary festival. Choreographed by Lynn Shaw the piece will be performed by contemporary performers aged 13-18. See…

Take your chance to bring the artwork of Northeast artist and illustrator, Johanna Basford, alive with neon paint. This year visitors can become the artist and watch as a bespoke installation is created in front of their eyes…

Live Event Management Discover a new connection to the sights of Schoolhill, as LEM’s textural lighting projects onto the iconic façade of St Nicholas Kirk. Local light and sound designers have produced a site specific installation, with specially…

Embark on a captivating journey through Aberdeen’s historic cityscape with the Northern Lights Programme as part of SPECTRA, Scotland’s Festival of Light 2024. Lead artist Craig Barrowman, along with an emerging line-up of commissioned artists, who all have…

Illuminating the granite-clad walls of His Majesty’s Theatre, this Spectra 2024 installation explores Aberdeen’s connection to the natural elements. Aberdeen’s unique geographical location strongly connects it to our planet’s four natural elements; Earth, Wind, Water and Fire. Escorted…

‘Flow’ is a series of explorations using dynamically controlled points of light within physicalspace to visualise the flow of energy, data and artefacts; real and imagined, as suggested bythe landscape itself. It is an attempt to represent the…

Affinity is an interactive light sculpture that depicts the dazzling complexity and connectivity of the human brain.Affinity is an immersive interactive light and sound installation inspired by the networks and connectivity in the human brain. Each light globe…

An unexpected sight to behold outside of a nightclub venue or disco, ‘Our Beating Heart’ brings the mirror ball principle to a grand scale. As the sculpture slowly rotates, urban spaces come alive. Dapples of light dance and…

Submergence is a large, immersive, walkthrough experience. It can be installed indoors or outdoors and uses many thousands of individual points of suspended light to create feelings of presence and movement within physical space. The installation transforms space…

Snippets of voice, melody, and oral histories accompany laser light- weaving a soundscape of light and voice into the courtyard of Marischal College. The show is time-coded to create a fluid visual journey, a light landscape in continuous…

Photographer David Gilliver was engaged to run workshops for local S5/S6 pupils and college students in late 2023, exploring the possibilities of light painting and photography. The images produced from the workshops will be curated and displayed, by…

‘Butterfly Dream’ by Anne Bennett is an artwork that is installed inside theRemembrance Hall, Aberdeen. Butterflies have many different meanings to many differentpeople: new beginnings, being in the arms of an angel, rebirth, transformation (turning point),mortal life, eternal…

Heinrich & Palmer will be creating a new large scale light, sound and film projection installation for the Sculpture Court in Aberdeen Gallery.  The film is inspired by the city art and heritage collection and thematically explores aspects…

Continuum will see Broad Street transformed by an awe-inspiring geometric matrix of mirrored and luminescent sonic monoliths – opening an infinite, mysterious and magical space within and around the audience, encouraging them to create paths and connections with…

Spin Me A Yarn is an oversized ball of luminous wool with a long trail of yarn that interacts with its surrounding area. The illuminated and unusually large-scale forces us to view it in a completely different way,…

Become immersed in the sights and sounds of Cowdray Hall like never before, as expert Scottish storytellers Pauline Cordiner and Lindsey Gibb enrapture you in their spellbinding myths. Go on exciting journeys and find magic in the folklore…