VOID

In September 2019 we launched VOID, a commissioned project as part of London Design Festival. Together with The Experience Machine and in partnership with Gemfields we built a multi-sensory spatial installation at Collins Music Hall, Islington.


Visitors were part of an immersive experience, travelling through a series of large-scale projections that showcased the expanded space inside gemstones and mapped the blurring boundaries between nature and design.


A selection of Mozambican rubies and Zambian emeralds from Gemfields’ mines, which date back millions of years, were brought to life through photography of tiny microcosms magnified to become abstract, galaxy-like structures.


Accompanied by other semi-precious gems created in rare geological processes, these unique mineral formations were discovered, suspended and frozen in time.


The installation considered the concept of containment and scale, employing spatial design to explore the natural borders formed within these unique mineral formations.


By translating moving image into a contained physical form and scoring the experience with harmonised layers of the human voice – by female electronic drone choir NYX – visitors were invited to enter within the portrait of a gemstone’s natural inclusion.

#VOIDWITHIN

 

Press Coverage

Wallpaper* Magazine October 2019

Creative Review

Dezeen

Nowness

 

Special Thanks to

Gemfields:
Sean Gilbertson
Emily Dungey
Sophie Ebbetts
Helen Choudhury
Orlando Beetge
Elena Basaglia
Adam Evans

London Design Festival:
Ben Evans CBE, Director
Dearbhla Mac Fadden, Group Head of Communications
Hanna Barber, Partnership Manager
Jonny Schofield, Project Manager
Annabel Hornsby, Communications Manager
Noma Moyo, Digital Assistant

Samuel Wilson, Communications

Art Partner:
Giovanni Testino
Jemima Hobson

Natural History Museum:
Mike Ramsey
Robin Hansen

Marcus McCallum

Designer / Artist
Dan Tobin Smith

Spatial and Set Design
Chris Pearson
The Experience Machine

Sound Creative Director
Sonjay Prabhakar

Executive Producer
Danielle Edwards

Producer
Lindsay Edmunds

Technical Producer
Elliott Lowe

Specialist Set Build and Construction
Asylum Models

Camera Assistant
Elliott Lowe
Joe Jackson

Colourist
Martin Pryor

Post Supervisor & Flame Artist
Miguel Wratten

Flame Artist
Jasmine Cooper

Editor
Matt Cronin

Audio
SSE Audio

Original Composition
NYX Electronic Drone Choir

Sound Associate
Peter Rice

Graphic Design
Sandra Zellmer

Production Assistants
Jamie-Lee Harding
Katie Reid
Louis Wilson