Multimedia / Signal Black No.1 and Signal Brass

The series of artworks titled "Signal" are mixed-media sculptural light Art by Esther Rolinson in collaboration with Sean Clark.

Title: Signal Series - Black No.1
Date: 2017
Media: Sculptural light work
Dimensions: 80cm x 80cm
Material: Hand chiselled board and programmed LEDs
Collaboration: Programming developed with Sean Clark 
Funding: Funded by Arts Council England
Title: Signal Series - Brass No.1 & No.2
Date: 2017
Media: Sculptural light work
Dimensions: 80cm x 80cm
Material: Hand chiselled brass and programmed LEDs
Collaboration: Programming developed with Sean Clark 
Funding: Funded by Arts Council England

In 'Signal Black' animated light softly radiates through a finely hand-cut filigree in concentric circles. It is subtle and dark. Like voices speaking through the ether, it is as if we are listening across a vast space to a distant and invisible event, the drop of a bead of energy onto water's surface. Everything is resonating.

'Signal Brass' is a slender illuminated panel of perforated brass hand cut by Rolinson. It is a tile like form that can be replicated or extended in a grid of fluctuating surfaces. The mixed media artworks from the two Signal Series (Black and Brass) are a collaboration between multimedia artist Esther Rolinson and artist-programmer Sean Clark in a sculptural light art shape.

In common with much of their collaborative work, including the award-winning installation 'Flown', 'Signal' began as a hand-made drawing by Esther Rolinson before being developed into a light artwork and then an Internet-connected digital artwork with the involvement of Sean Clark. 'Signal Black' is planned as a series of lightboxes silently resonating in a dimly lit space.