Salcombe Field of Light
Salcombe Field of Light has been donated to the RNLI and our community by the world renowned artist Bruce Munro to raise funds for RNLI Lifeboats and equip our volunteer crews. In the RNLI’s 200th year we will welcome guests free of charge to view the Field of Light from viewing points along the whole of Salcombe Harbour front.
The Field of Light spans over 35,000 square meters of steep Devon hillside opposite Salcombe town, on the edge of the estuary.
The art installation will feature an array of 20,000 lowlight, fibre-optic stemmed spheres that will illuminate with a slow, subtle change of hue.
The artist: Bruce Munro
British artist Bruce Munro is best known for producing large immersive light-based installations, which often employ a massing of components by the thousands. Bruce completed a B.A. in Fine Arts at Bristol in 1982. Shortly after he moved to Sydney where he worked in design and lighting, inspired by Australia’s natural light and landscape.
An artistic diarist, he has spent over 40 years collecting and recording ideas and images in his sketchbooks, which he returns to over time as source material. Language, literature, science, and music have also greatly influenced his work.
Bruce spent his youth in Salcombe working in Dusters Restuarant and living in our community. During that time he got to know some of the volunteer Lifeboat Crew, listening to their stories of rescues around our coast. His passion for the RNLI and the volunteers that make its work possible never left him and this is his way of saying thank you to our Crews for their work.
“I am hopeful that in Salcombe, it will also inspire, creating wonderment but also drawing attention to the mysteriousness of the landscape and the darkness that surrounds it.”
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