Streetlight Storm

Posted by: Idea Generation on: October 27, 2009 in: Art Galleries, Visual Arts & Culture

  Streetlight Storm, Deal Pier © MJC, courtesy the artist

Katie Paterson contemplates the ecosystem in a new commission for Vauxhall Motors

21st December 2009 – 30th January 2010
Deal Pier, Kent

Katie Paterson’s evocative new artwork, Streetlight Storm, transforms Deal pier into a monitoring system for global storm patterns

Scottish artist Katie Paterson, one of the most exciting and closely watched artists of the moment, has been commissioned by Vauxhall Motors to create an art work on the theme of re-inventing British classics. Paterson has taken a British seaside town as her inspiration, and will create a work for Deal Pier. Along the length of the pier, out to sea, the lights will flicker in time with lightning storms as they occur live across the globe.

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