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.

A drawing of an angel on the stained glass window by a local child

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!