Light Engine

Client: Locomotion - The National Railway Museum at Shildon
Artist: Peter Freeman

A major work for the first national museum to be built in the Northeast. Light Engine is a 6 meter high, six-sided mirror stainless steel column with lines and circles of RGB LED’s. It is interactive and has different sequences of lights, which can be triggered by text messages. The message commands are based on engine names which Timothy Hackworth built – Locomotion, Globe, Sans Pareil, Magnet, Arrow, Shildon.

The work uses new technology and digital communications to echo the importance of the railways for communication when they were developed as a national network.