What’s On

Food, Drinks, Rides & Play interventions

Along the Baylight trail encounter great food and drink offers, fairground rides and lots of playful interventions on familiar features and buildings. Look up to the sky and down on the ground for cool lighting transformations including at the Sailing Club, Midland Hotel, Lighthouse and the RNLI building. Don’t forget to bring your camera for a selfie at the Mountainscape UV experience!

The Kazimier, Anna Read & Shane Johnstone + local participants

Join us at 6pm on Friday to experience a fantastical underwater world of giant jellyfish, a drumming octopus and shoals of disco fish. Watch the parade weaving its way along Marine Central Road South to the sound of local groups including Baybeat and Samba Espirito. To attend FREE workshops to create your own handheld illuminated sea creatures and take part go here.

01  —  Squidsoup

Wave is a vibrant artwork consisting of five hundred individual suspended orbs. These points of presence are brought to life through light and sound, and collectively create a resonant and dynamic audiovisual experience reminiscent of a wave. This immersive sculpture is a continuation of Squidsoup’s ongoing explorations and obsession with elemental themes, particularly water.

02  —  Elgan Howells

This dynamic installation, made up of 100 vertical LED light pipes, is a visual reminder of the powerful nature of the ocean. Accompanied by an ethereal soundscape, this artwork ripples along 100m of railings, creating the effect of the ebb and flow of the tide and the impact of a wave in a stormy sea.

03  —  Luminism

Towering above your head, these impressive Dandelions appear to have risen from the ground beneath them, breaking through the earth to stake their claim on Morecambe seafront. These beautiful illuminated plants are arranged in random groups, designed to appear as they would naturally occur in nature. Grab a photo before they blow away in the wind…

04  —  Designs In Air

The Morecambe Winter Gardens are under invasion! Look up to witness a giant marine creature taking over the building with its huge tentacles spilling out over the balcony! Artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas turn their playful ideas into seriously large sculptures in a heroic effort to make the world a brighter, more surreal place for us all.

05  —  More Music

Bird Song explores the unique biodiversity of Morecambe Bay. For three special nights we will be inviting these birds inside the historic Winter Gardens to fly around the ceiling through animations with a brand new soundtrack created by young people from the West End and a brand new sound track. From Oystercatchers to cheeky seagulls, see who you can spot!

06  —  Pangus

These unique abstract sculptures by local artist Pangus re-use materials after their natural life and recreate them as defiant orbs of various scales. The inspiration for Chainballs was drawn from ideas of shadow, strength and form. Lit from within they create beautiful patterns and textures of light, inviting the audience to look deeper and consider.

07  —  Jonathan Couzens

A fun and playful artwork for all ages! Using floor projection Light Playground creates exciting and interactive effects under your feet. Step on the ice and see if it cracks, leave footprints across the sand, or create ripples across a pond of koi carp! This is likely to be a family favourite!

08  —  Luminism

A captivating and unique installation that celebrates the mesmerising beauty and otherworldliness of bioluminescent organisms.
Found in nature, and sometimes witnessed on our local shorelines, this glowing phenomenon will be seen along the bay during Baylight. Look for the dancing blue lights where the tide meets the shore…

09  —  Cordwainer Bird, Jr

A fun blend of the Blackpool-style seaside amusement machine and the latest RGB technology. Step up and make the ball come to life to discover your inner love quotient. Will you be a love disaster or Mr Lover Lover? Prepare for some proper tunes!!

10  — Winners of the drawing competition

Inspired by the fantastic array of creatures living under the sea, this series of beautiful projections were made by local children. Look up to see their colourful creations come to life on the walls of the Queens Hotel during Baylight.

11  —  Ithaca Studios

Are you team red, green, or blue? Each arm of this unique installation represents a colour, and when all three are triggered at the same time they form ‘white light’ by activating giant searchlight beams which touch the sky. See your footsteps (or wheels!) converted into light and sound pulses which rocket across the ground and up into space!

12  —  AlexP

Become a work of art with MAPP. This interactive video system will be brought to Morecambe by Dutch artists AlexP. Step into the light and be scanned, then step aside to see your image appear in vibrant colour as a live projection. Bring your camera, this is definitely a perfect moment to capture for instagram!

13  — Sandylands Primary School & Shane Johnstone

Guardian of the Tide and Protector of Nature

In a fusion of Art Nouveau and Art Deco motifs, both delicate and monumental, the winged mermaid sits atop the moon. A school of fish silently flow by as the waves roll in and break in under her watchful gaze.

Inspired by the heritage and technology of a pre-digital, pre-electronic age, we capture the nostalgia of the original illuminations and hark back a hundred years to the great tableaus of the 1920’s to 1960’s.

At its height Morecambe Illuminations employed over 100 people to build and maintain the illuminations, this piece is a tribute to their creativity, skills and foresight.

Here the original sculptural sheet tin, walled cell structure is duplicated with recycled plastics supplied by local sign company Alpha Engraving Ltd.

The image is created from hundreds of cells each enclosing and lit by a traditional lamp with a cabochon lens – cabochon is the ancient jewellers term for gemstone.

The angel represents the  sustainability of Morecambe Bay and she will become a figure to tell stories of a positive future handed down to many generations to come.