ARTISTS

ISLAND OF LIGHT gather artists form all around the world. Island of light emerges within the merge of art and environment. The unique Cliffs and rustic boathouses act as canvas. Both sea and sky reflect and distort the artworks in a way every evening provieds a unique experience.

EMMA RÖNNHOLM

FINLAND

Emma Rönnholm is a visual artist, working predominately with sculpture, installation, kinetic and light art. She likes to set her works in motion using simple motorised mechanisms, tension, optical illusions or light. The pieces are often made of recycled everyday materials. Humour, DIY and a certain meditative rhythm define her artistic oeuvre. Rönnholm obtained her MA in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011.

ANNI LAUKKA

FINLAND

Anni Laukka (b. 1982, Kokkola, Finland) is a contemporary artist working across sculpture, installation, and light-based practices. Her work explores how material, memory, and lived experience intersect, transforming found and sourced materials into installations and sculptures that carry both physical and documentary presence.

ANDREW SCOTT

SWEDEN 

Andrew Scott has been a teacher in various aspects of Media Production since the turn of the millennium. Since 2010 he has run the Audiovisual Production program at Höskolan Dalarna. The education has also developed Scott's own work and for the third time he is exhibiting a work at Island of Light.

CRAIG & ANTON

WALES 

Frequent collaborators Craig Morrison and Ant Dickinson are Wales-based creative practitioners working across interdisciplinary fields. Morrison’s practice moves fluidly between fashion, production, costume design, curation, and creative direction, while Dickinson’s work is grounded in music, media design, and projection. For this installation, they are joined by Norwegian dancer Ann-Kathrin Granhus, embodying the central role of the Shaman.
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THEODORA "DORINA" SALTI

GREECE 

Theodora "Dorina" Salti is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, and a drama teacher researching the educational potential of immersive experiences in interactive audiovisual installations and performances. For more of Theodoras work, visit childrenoftheartsworld.com

ERIC LANGENDOEN

NETHERLANDS

Eric Langendoen is a designer, performer and visual artist. His work varies from site specific theatre to interactive installations. The works take many forms, but they are always situated in the triangle between music, theatre and visual arts. He tries to engage the audience in a way that they can interact with or become part of the work.

ALEKSANDRA STRTIMIROVC 

SWEDEN

Aleksandra Stratimirovic is a light artist whose practice explores the spatial, emotional, and social dimensions of light in public space. She works across installation, site-specific intervention, and public art, creating works that engage architecture, perception, and collective experience. Aleksandra has been part of the creative team behind Island of Light since its start.

ROBERT SOCHACKI

POLAND

Working within the light art frame Sochacki comments and interprets topic from everydaylife. He looks into social and political perspectives and tries to uncover some relationships between the artwork and the space where it is presented. By creating artistic codes and contextualize them in a site specific setting he invites the viewers to re-discover and re-define their everyday experience. His artistic resaerche is focused on deconstruction the division between the artwork and the viewer. Going beyond the tradicional pedagogy of a master/student, he is lecturer (PhD) at art academies.

MIGUEL CHEVALIER

FRANCE

French digital and virtual artist. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.

THOSE GUYS LIGHTING

LATVIA

We are a collective of engineers, lighting designers, and programmers based in Riga, Latvia. Since our founding in 2018, we’ve evolved from a small studio into a recognized name in the European light-art scene. Our projects have been featured at major events across Europe and beyond. Driven by passion and precision, we are committed to delivering bold, uncompromising light-based experiences.

PAS

SWEDEN

Under the direction of EMMA- KARA NILSSON – lighting designer and lighting artist with a focus on the expression of the place/room. With nature as a source of inspiration, my artistic works take shape.

ILLUMINOS

UK

Illuminos are brothers Matt and Rob Vale, who for over 10 years have been creating visually inventive, memorable projection artworks and experiences. Our works range from very large scale illumination to small scale imagery, but always working to create something unique and specific to location and viewer.

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