The Plessey LEDs are being used in the Consol Solar Jars which are manufactured by Suntoy, a South African based company. Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park are using 1000 Consol Solar Jars as one of its key set pieces. Plessey's GaN on Silicon LEDs are being used as they offer manufacturers flexibility when designing custom light fittings due to their compact, eco-friendly and sustainable nature.
This is the first time globally, that wireless DMX technology has been used to activate so many solar powered lanterns in an art exhibition of this magnitude. The technological challenge was made easier in collaboration with UJ (University of Johannesburg) and their research facility RC (Resolution circle).
Compton Verney Park Visual artist Laurent from Creatmosphere, a cross-genre studio specialising in the interplay of light as art between architecture and space, has been commissioned to create a light spectacular as has never been seen before using the Consol Solar Jars. In Light: Illuminating Capability Brown's Landscape, launched on 29 October and runs until 13 November.
Plessey LED sales director Giuliano Cassataro said, "By using 1000 Consol Solar Jars, Laurent will be filling an entire field with pinpoints of light to map the rich and diverse history of green spaces in a creative and captivating way. Three centuries later, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's work is still celebrated and lives on. We are thrilled to be playing a small part in this creative initiative through supplying our LEDs into the Consol Solar Jars and to our customer Suntoy in South Africa."
Suntoy managing director Harald Schulz commented, "We here at Suntoy, together with our European distributors Sonnenglas, are enormously proud to have our Consol Solar Jars with the Plessey LEDs play an integral and creative part in this initiative. Seeing it being used in this way and not just as originally intended (as a reading light and portable solar lantern), demonstrates its potential as a fun, eco-friendly and sustainable alternative light supply that makes it easy to go green. It truly is bottled sunshine."
(Jim Evans)
