STONEHENGE 2018

world heritage day

IMPACT WITH LIGHT PROJECT

To celebrate UNESCO World Heritage Day on 18thApril and as part of activities to mark 100 years of care and conservation at Stonehenge, English Heritage worked with Finnish Light Artist Kari Kola to light up the iconic stone circle at the heart of the World Heritage Site.

I illuminated the world famous stone circle overnight and into the dawn of World Heritage Day. The incredible artwork at Stonehenge is the first time that anyone got a possibility to work with light in this unique site. The site is truly iconic and globally one of the most significant in terms of the origins of our cultural history. The light installation at Stonehenge was realised in cooperation with English Heritage and UNESCO and I am deeply honoured by the way in which  the charity has embraced my work. Idea of the project was to do a very short term and high impact project to put more focus on our cultural heritage and preservation of our heritage. Project was excecuted without audience and project was on only 2hours and 15mins. Next day the media coverage was already over 100-million contacts.