Illuminate Collective

Illuminate legacy Zine

Illuminate members worked with Dizzy Ink Print Studios to create a Zine as an archive of their projects over the last seven years.

Rebellious Retail, Presenting our ideas

These items were presented to Faye Sadler and Jade Everatt from the Castle Transformation team. The plan had been to conduct product research as part of the Museums Light Night event, to gage the public’s response to the items, however this was not completed due to Illness. The group decided instead to ask for response through the Castle Transformation newsletter, the volunteer newsletter and the heritage conference “ Heritage Hunters” hosted by City Arts.

We decided to work with artist Hannah Satchwell to screen print designs on top of NCMG prints, the idea being that our “rebellion” would be to disrupt these images with our own thoughts and images.

An initial activity creating Rebellious Hero’s and Heroine top trumps.

We were tasked with the “Rebellious Retail” project by the Castle Transformation project team. The project asked us to use objects featured in the castle’s new Rebellion galleries as inspiration for the design and prototyping of items suitable for sale in the castle shop.

We were asked by Jean Jackson of Nottingham City Museums to create a table top game at her event '1940's Knees Up'.

We decided to make Thaumatropes, which is an early form of animation.

When the strings are twirled rapidly the card rotates and the two images appear to combine. Invented by John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856), an English physician, in 1825, the Thaumatrope was the first instrument to exploit the persistence of images on the retina.
Persistence of vision refers to the optical illusion that occurs when we can see an object for some time after the rays of light coming from it have stopped entering the eye.

Close Distance

We worked with filmmaker Urben Media, Ben Harriott to make our film for the exhibition at Wollaton Hall, Close Distance, which was a 'making of' documentary film that interviewed and
researched the process of the artists involved.

Close Distance is a collaboration between artist Caroline Broadhead, choreographer Angela Woodhouse and film-maker Nic Sandliand, responding to the Elizabethan Mansion, Wollaton Hall and collections. They are making performance, craft objects and films to be situated in the Prospect Room at the Hall.

Our challenge as a collective was to work with videographer Ben Harriott to supplement the interpretation of the piece in a documentary style piece.

We interviewed Caroline Broadhead in her London based studio and captured the changing light of the Prospect Room. We captured talks given by our own curators about the work, including the collection at Newstead Abbey that inspired Caroline.
You can see our film here;