Want our ‘glowing’ art installations for your museum or gallery?

 

Magical and exquisitely crafted, Kristin and Davy McGuire’s miniature model universe is full of visual wonders. (The Guardian)

 

The four available pieces are The Hunter, The Haunted Dress, Sprite Symphony and Psycho. Two of them were developed for the RSC. They are all magical and bewitching installations that will delight both adults and children alike. Each piece has its own soundtrack so would need a room of its own or a separate space to reach full potential.

 

1. The Hunter

 

The Hunter is an intricate paper diorama that comes to life through projected animations, music and sound effects. When the intricately cut paper model illuminates, tiny shadow figures seem to appear behind the diorama in order to depict a silent fable about the cruelty of human conduct and the ability to repent our actions. The Hunter is a gallery installation that tells a 15 min narrative on a loop for a maximum of 10 people at a time.

 

 

The Hunter Venue Requirements:

A totally blacked out, sound insulated room. The installation is 1,80 wide, 1m deep and 70 cm high.

 

 

We would need a 1-2m of space behind the installation for the projectors (although we are working on including the projectors on the inside of the unit which might then help to reduce the space behind the model) and we’d need 2-3m in front of the model for the audience to stand and watch it. We provide the equipment.

 

 

2. The Haunted Dress

 

Commissioned by and developed for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Haunted Dress is an installation using theatre couture, projections and sound to tell the gruesome story of a beautiful but savage fairy queen who seduced a man into madness. Ghostly and mesmerising.

 

 

The Haunted Dress Venue Requirements:

A blacked out, sound insulated room or corridor. The installation is ca. 2m high, 1m deep and 1m wide. We would need ca. 4 m of space in front of the dress for the projector. Also, the venue would need to hire an HD projector, which needs to be mounted on the ceiling. We provide all other equipment.

 

 

 

3. Sprite Symphony

 

Commissioned by and developed for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sprite Symphony is a magical installation using projections and sound to create a beautiful yet dark display of fairies that have been trapped in jam jars and are trying to escape their glass cages. The fairies knock and tap on their jars and thereby create a polyphonic musical composition.

 

 

Sprite Symphony Venue Requirements:

The Sprite Symphony has sound but it can be used without – we’ve had it set up in the RSC theatre foyer which means that it doesn’t necessarily need its own room. This installation works in daylight (not bright sunlight though) but also dark light conditions. We provide all equipment. Dimensions for Sprite Symphony are: 1m wide, 2.30m high and 0.75 m deep.

 

 

 

4. Psycho - Homage to Hitchcock

 

Psycho is an animated paper sculpture: a hybrid art work that combines the delicate paper model, sound and video in one beautiful unit, boxed off, framed and easily switched on and off.

 

 

Psycho technical information and costs:

This installation can be couriered out from our studio in Bristol with self-assembly instructions, so the cost would just need to cover the shipment.

 

 

 

Your next step

 

If you’re interested in bringing any of these works to your venue or event or if you want to find out more about these works in general please contact us on [email protected].

If you’re interested in bringing any of these installations to your venue for Museums at Night 2014, please contact Rosie on 01273 623336 or email [email protected].