Neon exhibition in London, Jan 14th...

[Nick]

In my day job, I work in the City of London - I just happened to be walking past Bloomberg's offices in Finsbury Square today when something caught my eye - a gallery full of neon being set up!

What's more, the guy doing the setup was someone I know - Richard Wheater of Neon Workshops fame (I was lucky enough to do some hot glass training with him last year - he also made the "People Like Neon" banner on our group homepage). Had a brief chat - he made the neon & other signs for the exhibition, though the actual "artist" is Tim Echells. See http://www.bloombergspace.com/artists/upcoming/tim-etchells/

I've attached a couple of rather poor photos of the setting up - the Bloomberg security guards got rather cross with me as apparently taking photos is not allowed...

The exhibition runs from 14th Jan to 12th March. I'll be going...

Cheers

Nick

[Nick]

Should have pointed out that this is all part of a much larger, London-wide, exhibition of light called "Lumiere" running from the 14th to the 17th January - see http://www.visitlondon.com/lumiere/about/what-is-lumiere-london-2016 

Quite a lot of neon in there :)

Nick

[Nick]

Couple of rather poor photos - not allowed to take photos in the exhibition, but can do through the windows...

Huge amount of work to make that lot - couldn't get an image of what's on the floor - some pure neon in there, but mostly Ar-filled/Hg-doped/Phosphor-coated tubes...

Private viewing with the artist & fabricator is tomorrow night... hopefully I'll be allowed to take some proper photos...

Nick

[Mike Harrison]

Also, Lights of Soho has an exhibition of Chris Bracey's work - I think til end of Jan

lightsofsoho.com

If you're ever anywhere Walthamstow, God's Own Junkyard is worth a visit
http://godsownjunkyard.co.uk/