Sara Burns

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  MA Textiles, 2007

  Specialism

  Constructed Textiles

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• [email protected]
  07775 840960

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• I create ambient experience for public and domestic spaces, ranging from video paintings, and animated light wallpaper to interactive environments. I have increasingly been drawn to designing with various forms of light. My work explores optics, phantasmagoria, new technology and materials, natural phenomena and projections using special effects projectors, digital photography and video. I draw from both hi-tech and low-tech processes.

  I am available for bespoke commissions for private individuals and companies as well as consulting for architects and designers.

  I am currently producing a series of abstract video paintings for home cinema.

• Experience

• Designer: interactive lighting and special effects for courtyard, reception and entrance, Jungle Studios, Soho, London, 2006-7; Own design business (graphics, interiors & products), Sara Burns Design, London, 1984-2006; Senior Designer, Conran Associates, London, 1982-84

• Exhibitions

• Video projection of Ink(collaboration) commissioned by The Classical Opera Company for Mozart's Il Re Pastore, Barbican Hall and Teatro Ventidio Basso, London and Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 2006; Ink video projection (collaboration), Do-shop, Soho, London, 2007; light flowers animated wallpaper, Do-shop, Soho, London, 2007

• Awards

• Shortlisted, Theraputic Videos (collaboration), Design for Our Future Selves Awards, Helen Hamlyn Research Centre RCA, 2007; Joint First Prize, Sea Paisley collection, Bedeck: bedlinen designs, 2006; Group First Prize, Stretch Lights, Heal's: to design new products re-interpreting the Heal's archive, 2005