Painting with Light at the E17 Art Trail
13 June 2017
Last weekend, CASA staff joined academics from across UCL to celebrate William Morris and Walthamstow at The Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels, as part of the annual E17 Art Trail.

CASA’s Duncan Hay and Martin Zaltz Austwick joined Oliver Duke-Williams from UCLDH and James Kneale from UCL Geography to create Pixelstick images at the church. The Pixelstick is a unique tool for light painting - creating two-dimensional images in space which are revealed in long-exposure photographs - like the ones here - drawn from historic photographs of the church, the prints of William Morris, the history of computing, and drawings of the stained glass windows created by local schoolchildren. Duncan, Oliver, and Church Warden Glynn gave short talks on the history of the church and area, and on the radical socialism of William Morris, with the audience taking their own photographs on their cameras and smartphones.
Huge thanks to Alex and Glynn at St Michael’s, and the E17 Art Trail team, for having us!

Duncan Hay discusses William Morris to a backdrop of Morris’ famous prints

Wallpapering St Michael’s

Instrumental in the development of computing, the Jacquard Loom used punchcards to rapidly change textile patterns

These windows sit at the sides of the church - here, we’ve brought them into the main space