NEON : Shaping Light

30 Sep-28 Oct 2011

Overview

Forms part of Arts Festival Bournemouth By The Sea. An exhibition of the best of neon artworks created for Night Light weekend (23 & 24 September).  Artist  Richard William Wheater and Julia Bickerstaff will lead a number of workshops to create these neon exhibits.  Neon emerged in the 1930s as a lighting medium of choice for signage.  It is now used consciously in art, from the great American artist Bruce Nauman to YBA artist Tracey Emin.  Wheater and Bickerstaff run the only arts organisation delivering courses in neon across the UK and abroad.