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Ready Steady Light

Bright sparks

What can lighting professionals achieve when handed a bit of equipment and a plot of land? Jill Entwistle turns the lens on this year’s Ready Steady Light

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Students often don’t get the practical hands-on experience

with light fittings that perhaps they should, while lighting practitioners are usually so bogged down in the demands of the latest project that they have little time to indulge in the purely fun side of lighting. The Society of Light and Lighting’s Ready Steady Light, started eight years ago, is the antidote to all that, designed to remind everyone of the playful and creative side of lighting. Not that everyone isn’t serious about winning. Hosted by Rose Bruford College

of Theatre and Performance in Sidcup, Kent, the event in March pitted 14 teams (student and professional) against each other, competing for three awards: technical, artistic and peer. All they were armed with was a maximum of six pieces of lighting equipment, an arbitrarily allotted site in the extensive college grounds and just three hours to come up with a winning lighting scheme. This year the event was again

Urbis’s the Barn... Commended by technical judges.

dominated by independent lighting consultancy Light Bureau, which for the second year running won two awards, this time artistic and technical, for their scheme for the Cabin site. Playing with perspective and depth of field, the concept used a single upright fluorescent as a mid-distance focal point with an internally-lit pile of logs in the foreground and a large old tree in the background uplit with a 250W floodlight. ‘For a second year the team

from Light Bureau impressed the judges with the simplicity and visual impact of their scheme,’ said Kevin Theobald, who led the artistic judges and represented the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) which sponsors this prize. ‘The Cabin is a notoriously

difficult site to interpret, particularly in the limited time available at Ready Steady Light. Picking just one or two natural elements which were revealed against the sculptural

Arup’s Fag Alley... Highly commended.

impact of the bare fluorescent tube, the composition of the scene was well balanced but had an immediate impact on the viewer.’ While the technical judges in

particular were looking at energy use as one of their criteria, SLL president Stephen Lisk said that, such was the scale of illumination needed to create the background effect, use of a higher energy luminaire was fully justified. Fag Alley (Arup Lighting) was

highly commended by the technical judges – Lisk, SLL president-elect Alan Tulla, CIBSE president-elect Rob Manning and SLL Newsletter editor Jill Entwistle – while the Barn (Urbis Lighting) was commended. The artistic award judges, who included Durham Marenghi, Declan Randall and Adam Carree from the theatre lighting profession, highly commended the Old Stables (Rose

Bruford College) and commended the Old Courtyard (Zumtobel). The Old Stables was also a contender for the peer prize, awarded by fellow competitors, as was the New Courtyard (Holophane Europe), but the award went to the Urbis Lighting team for its interactive scheme at the Barn. Rose Bruford has increasingly supported the event over the years, having adopted Ready Steady Light as part of its own lighting design course. CIBSE president Mike Simpson,

who has always organised the event, was helped this year by the college’s Peter McGregor Milloy and Rhian Kennedy, who led a team of students coordinating the entire event on the day. The sponsors this year were Holophane, iGuzzini, Philips, Sill, Thorn, Urbis and Zumtobel. l

Participating teams

Arup; Bartlett; DW Windsor; Havells Sylvania; Hilson Moran; Holophane; iGuzzini; Light Bureau; Light IQ; Philips; Rose Bruford; Urbis; YLP; Zumtobel

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CIBSE Journal May 2010

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Light Bureau’s the Cabin...

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