Isaac Newton Colour Circle /
Colour
Wheel
Art installation
/ Community Sculpture by sculptor and designer
Laury Dizengremel
For Gravity Fields Festival in Grantham - Transformation of the Town
Event
28 September 2012
Daytime view of Isaac Newton Colour Circle - an artwork in steel and
fabric by sculptor Laury Dizengremel. The steel frame was welded by
Manor Welding (Buckminster, Grantham).
As evening descends, the artist Laury Dizengremel prepares for public
interaction with her community sculpture commissioned by South Kesteven
District Council for the Transformation of the Town event which was the
finale event of the inaugural Gravity Fields Festival in Grantham.
The moon rising over the
installation....
St Wulframs Church and its magic lightshow highlighted against the sky
near the Isaac Newton Colour Circle artwork installation.
One of the three
processions passing the installation at the corner of Bluegate
and
Elmer street in Grantham (Lincolnshire) during Gravity Fields
Festival's finale evening.
Lots of kids and even
some grown-ups interacted with the art installation by painting onto
CDs (recycled) their own versions of the scientific colour circle or
variations on the colour wheel theme!
Laury uses a hair dryer
to speed up the drying of CDs...
One proud kid shows her
take on Isaac Newton's colour wheel painted onto a recycled CD.
A small selection of CDs
painted as part of the community sculpture public interaction event
held by artist Laury Dizengremel during the finale evening of the
Gravity Fields Festival. As they dried, the CDs were hung on the fence
next to the large-scale artwork for anyone to admire. Three processions
came and went during the evening, and thousands passed by on their way
to and from a number of other events held in the town of Grantham that
evening.
Laury Dizengremel sewing fabric onto metal frame. The various fabrics
were selected to reflect styles that had an old-fashioned 17th/18th
century feel.
"I learned so much on this project. Not least of which is that the
scientific colour wheel is quite different than the artistic one, even
if it has evolved since Newton first documented it. Newton's discovery
of the colour spectrum using a prism still stands as one of the most
important optical observations."
The sketch by Isaac Newton of his colour circle includes references to
musical notes and to planets. This served as the inspiration for the
artwork pictured on this page.
To learn more about the Gravity Fields Festival, see the http://www.gravityfields.co.uk/
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