ARTISTS
To create our trails we work with international and UK-based, award-winning artists from across a range of different media, including lighting, sculpture, fire, and landscaping.
Singularity
Singularity is a monolithic suspended sphere of abstract and dynamic light and movement. A symphonic compression and dilation of energy in slow motion.
Liquid Lake
Liquid Lake is created using coloured laser beams and fog to produce a canopy of light overhead.
Crystalize
Large, colorful crystals seem to have formed randomly on the branches of the trees.
By day, the dichroic material reflects the sun in a thousand colors and casts coloured shadows on the branches and ground.
At night, the crystals light up as if animated by a glow of their own, creating a magical atmosphere.
Forest of Light
Forest of Light is a large-scale installation that covers the ground with thousands of individually controlled balls of LED light animated to a bespoke soundtrack.
Mycelium Network
The mushrooms slowly transition through several colours whilst the mycelium strobes and pulses and almost looks as if its moving around and sending messages around like the human bodies nervous system.
Moonlight Flowers
A field of 22 flowers beautiful at day and night time. Each up to 3.5m in height and made from 3D steel covered with UV and with small LED bulb spheres placed in the crown of the flowers to create stamen like elements, that have a special glow and animated sparkly effect.
Lili
These abstract, illuminated flowers reach approximately 3m in height and spread across an area of 5.5m. Visitors can look up at the flowers as their leaves soar into the sky.
Papyrus
The Papyrus stretches out its white leaves in the sun, throwing delicate and thin shadows around. At night its leaves starting blowing a bright warm light and vibrant colours lighten up its stems and leaves in sequences.
Peonies
Elegant flowers gracefully stretch upwards, each as a bouquet of three flower heads offering their finely shaped white petals to the sun.
Shadowland
A place where physics meets art and art meets fun. Using the principles of the primary colours of light and additive colour mixing, we create a lighting world that appears neutral until you enter - and then your shadows are fractured into magical colours.
Komorebi
The Japanese expression for "dappled light through the leaves" this installation plays with light and sound to create a festive pathway of dappled light. The music for this installation was composed by Kate O'Hanlon.
Ice Trees
A little frozen winter fun as we light up the trees in cool blues and whites. Add a splash of festive projected images and it's Christmas!
Red Woods
These majestic trees needed a majestic lighting treatment. By rigging the lights way up high we are able to highlight just how magnificent these redwoods are. This son et lumiere experience celebrates our love of holidays and festive cheer.
Cascade
Over 400 cascading light tubes are suspended from the trees against an assortment of neon lit backdrops.
Floating Candles
Around a hundred candles seemingly float in the air, suspended overhead. Flickering flames illuminate the tree-lined passageway and immerse the audience in a magical, festive atmosphere.
Fire Dancers
Fire Dancers is inspired by Christmas table-top chimes and happy memories of celebratory gatherings. The installation symbolises joyful expression, human unity and gentle optimism.
Crocus Lawn
Like the familiar spring-time flowers these one-metre high crocus are bursting with light and colour.
Rainbow Hedge
The world-renowned beech hedge at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh is awash with all the colours of the rainbow.
Candy Lane
A fun, festive installation of oversized candy, that brings back childhood memories of old-fashioned sweets.
Kaleido
Ever-shifting layers and shapes of colour are projected onto the path using kaleidoscopic lenses and moving light.
Pealight Tree
Thousands of tiny bright white lights create a glow across the branches and trunk of one of the garden's magnificent trees.
Laser Lake
Laser Lake is created using coloured laser beams and fog to produce a canopy of light over water.
Flower Avenue
Flower Avenue by UK-based artist Jigantics and local lighting designer John Stewart is one of the largest works in their collection of illuminated flowers which tour worldwide.
On the Tide
A water-based floating floral lightwork. On the Tide is created from points of light floating in strands, moved and positioned by the natural movement of the water.
Poleen
Four large sculptural chandeliers rise majestically out of the water. Glowing in an ever changing hypnotic rhythm of colours and paces.
Star Walk
Audiences walk through the star archway and onto a path with multiple stars hanging overhead. The perfect place to capture photos with friends and family.
Huge Reeds
These huge multi-coloured reeds are over 8m in length and are animated by a sap of light that pulses along each stem.
Flow
‘Flow’ is a series of explorations using dynamically controlled points of light within physical space to visualise the flow of energy, data and artefacts; real and imagined, as suggested by the landscape itself.
Morning Sunrise
Warm lights create an early morning glow as if the sun is just beginning to rise.
Shadow Dance
Light plays in the bamboo trees creating dark shadows through warm rays of light.
Fibre Optic Flowers
A sea of 750 bright white fibre optic flowers cover the garden, glistening in the dark.
Light Lines
Light Lines spreads waves of colour across hundreds of pixel battens through the trees to create a dynamic light show.
Frost Tree
A spectacular winter tree glowing with strips of white neon sparkling like crisp white frost along its branches.
Antares
Antares are one of the brightest stars in the sky, here they are represented by clusters of lights, shining from the branches of trees overhead.
Half Arches
A striking single coloured perspective tunnel of half arches that lines the path.
Fluorefornia
A series of six fluorescent, geometric sculptures, lit with ultra violet light. They depict endangered mammals, emerging from the undergrowth, highlighting the plight of these magnificent creatures.
Neon Flowers
Inspired by a world of natural light these glowing flowers sparkle against the darkness of the garden in winter.
Pixel Banners
Pixel Banners at night create a colourful striking elevated, animated display visible from long distances. During the day they look simple and sculptural.
Trapezoid Heavens
One of the longest light tunnels to ever feature at Christmas at Kew, this 75m long, multi-coloured tunnel will illuminate the path, fully immersing visitors as they wander through.
Neon Singing Trees
LED lighting strips shoot up and down the trunk of the tree creating moments of brightness and darkness in time to music
Tubular Baubelles
Half arches of lights at the edge of the path, rapidly change in colour whilst flashing in time to the Christmas music.
Water Fountain Show
Light, music and water which shoots into the air in time to the music creates a spectacular show.
Storybook
Using colour, and occasionally fabrics, and recycled materials Woody Fox creates large-scale figures to illustrate the four best loved children's tales.
Robins Trail
'Il sentiero dei pettirossi' Nothing says Christmas like a sparkling flock of red, gold, bonze, orange robins, bringing good luck and messages of love.
