Client – Scottish Maritime Museum
Location – Linthouse Building, Irvine
Date – November 2017
Project Partners – Event Scotland, Scottish Maritime Museum, Museum Galleries Scotland, North Ayrshire Council, Black Light
Projector Spec – 2 x EX16K-E 16,000-lumen projectors
The commission allowed us to delve into the Maritime Archives and produce artwork from rarely seen shipbuilding images. This projection mapping art piece was to be the focal point of a wider show which included aerial acrobatics, street performers and light sculptures.
The Scottish Maritime Museum is housed within the vast Victorian, glass-roofed Linthouse. The building chosen was an A-listed ‘Cathedral of Engineering’; formerly the engine shop of Alexander Stephen and Sons Shipyard in Glasgow, before being salvaged and painstakingly rebuilt in Irvine.
The archive curators provided us with maps, engineering blueprints and black and white images that were collated by a host of volunteer archivists. This creative commission was seen as a great opportunity to reward those who had given hours of their personal time by showcasing the images they had rescued.