Diana Edmunds

Light Ladder. Fibre Optic Installation. New commission as part of LAUNCH. Diana Edmunds Š1995

Working for new Public Art Developments and Commissions, Diana Edmunds has shown at a number of London galleries, notably Syndicated Arts and Cable Street, and produced work for Camberwell Artsweek. She is working with Chris Wilkinson Architects on proposals for Bristol 2000. Using fibre optic cable as a sculptural intervention in relation to buildings and landscape, she is currently researching the potential for making kinetic light installations using magnetism as the source for movement.

Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation to which the human eye is sensitive. When it strikes the retina it stimulates the sensation we know as light. Diana Edmunds is a sculptor who manipulates this light. Fibre optic cable and iridescent perspex are the media she uses to plunge and trace lines of light in space. The formality of the buildings her sculptures inhabit are architectural counterpoints to the soft effects expressed in these works - a rod of light plunges four storeys down the void of a black stairwell and disappears into the ground in a glowing alchemic pool. Shrouded in darkness, we are spectators distortion of nature, created out of light and space.
David MacIlwaine Š1997

Edmund's Proposal for LAUNCH

These two new commissions are available as part of the main body of LAUNCH. Serving as portable pieces of public art, these installations can be dismantled and adapted to fit each site. Edmunds new pieces of work Stairwell and Light Ladder will serve as modern sculptures, contained within the severity of architectural sites and buildings of significance (both in terms of stature and history). Stairwell, a twenty metre tube of luminous light, is a piece of work experienced by the viewer in their own time and space, footsteps adding the dimension of sound to the work. Light Ladder is a mesh of light crossing and straddling to form a vast ladder of fibre optic cable. The work will tour from its Docklands host buildings, reused for sites in Wales and the Rural West.