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These one-of-a-kind silk lanterns are available to buy
with proceeds going to a local Primary school, where many of the pupils have few opportunities to experience the life changing possibilities of music and art first-hand.
The #LanternsOfJoy bursary, made possible through the sales of the lanterns, will be used by the school for an art and music project for the pupils, over 50% of whom are eligible for free school meals.
Take a look at the 12 lanterns below and click on the orange button to buy a lantern or make a donation.
Make a difference to children’s lives
Each lantern has been hand-made in a collaboration between artists who have created bespoke pieces for Boy George, Coldplay, Conran and Chanel. Your donation will enable disadvantaged children to experience the joy of art and music.
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The Lanterns
Purple Wings
‘Music gives wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything’
Plato
60cm tall x 30cm deep, shot silk, laser cut and stitched words
An unusually shaped large lantern made out of a shimmering purple and deep crimson shot silk that gently changes hue when seen from different points of view.
Crimson Dreamers
‘We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams’
Arthur O’Shaughnessy
40cm diameter, shot silk and embroidered
A sumptuous, textured, deep crimson, silk lantern with words embroidered on a vintage Cornely sewing machine.
Spiral Soul
‘Music gives a soul to the universe’
Plato
60cm tall x 30cm deep, Shot silk dupion, embroidered and laser cut words
Hues of purple and orange swirl in a spiral on this large, colourful lantern. There is a funky, 70’s vibe to this piece.
Sound of Colour
‘Colour is the place where the brain and the universe meet’
Paul Klee
30cm diameter, silk dupion with embroidery
There are many connections between visual art and music. We talk about the colour of music, the shape of a sound, and here we celebrate those creative cross-overs in this fine quality, deep salmon pink, silk dupion lantern with words embroidered using a vintage Cornely sewing machine.
Musical Truth
‘The only truth is music’
Jack Kerouac
30cm diameter, shot silk dupion with words embroidered with a vintage Cornely sewing machine.
Music may be the most abstract of artworks, a poetry of sounds, spaces and syncopations. Explore creative connections whilst lit by the glow of this green and turquoise shot silk lantern with graffiti embroidery.
Golden Pout
‘I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues’
Duke Ellington
60cm wide x 30cm tall, gold and blue shot silk dupion with laser cut crimson stitched letters
This lantern takes the form of musical notation, like a large, squished quaver, glowing gold and blue and deep crimson. Smoky, like good jazz.
Dancing Orange
‘Writing about music is like dancing about architecture’
Frank Zappa
60cm tall x 30cm deep, shot silk dupion with laser cut and stitched letters.
Let music speak for itself. Let it speak straight to your heart, in the glow of this exquisite orange and crimson shot silk lantern with spiralling golden details. The colour of the shot silk morphs as you move around it.
Green Jazz
‘Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains’
John Philip Sousa
40cm diameter, shot silk dupion lantern with details embroidered with a vintage Cornely sewing machine.
Feel the rhythm, trust your instincts and let your feet dance. Two colours of shot silk dupion are used on this gorgeous lantern, bringing together a jazzy mixture of green, turquoise, orange, and crimson.
Time and Space
Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time’
Jean Michel Basquiat
50cm diameter, shot silk dupion with laser cut and embroidered details.
Thinking in four dimensions we consider the many layers of experience given us through our senses. Experience texture, colour, form, movement, space and time with this gorgeous gold and blue shot silk lantern. The letters are cut from orange and crimson shot silk with crimson embroidery, adding additional layers of complexity to this unique, functional artwork.
Right Notes Orange
‘I’m playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order’
Eric Morecambe
60cm diameter, shot silk, laser cut and stitched
This large, glowing lantern is made out of a beautiful orange silk with a shot of red silk woven through it so that the colour morphs when seen from different angles. The message may be humorous but it also touches on an essential truth about art, music, creativity and life. In order to create you have to mix things up and make unexpected connections.
Ragtime Ball
40cm diameter shot silk dupion sculptural lantern, multiple colours, on a handmade rattan frame.
This lantern was created in the spirit of sustainability, inspired by traditional textile methods the world over that use fabric scraps to make functional objects of beauty. The silk fragments left over from making the graffiti lanterns were saved up and woven through this hand-made rattan frame, making a lantern that throws wonderful cascades of twinkling light.
Rainbow Improvisation
60cm tall x 30 cm deep, rainbow coloured shot silk dupion lantern on a handmade rattan frame.
For those who love colour and movement this eccentrically woven lantern brings together all of the hues and ideas from the whole installation in one final, improvisational piece. The weaving leaves spaces for light to be cast onto surrounding surfaces, reminding us of the importance of the spaces in between things, moments and notes.
The Artists
is a Bristol based illustrator, muralist, graffiti and Virtual Reality artist. Intricately patterned and highly colourful dinosaurs, combined with architecture, are a common theme of his designs. Andy is originally from Bath and was educated at Bournemouth Art College where he studied Animation. He has produced work for Blender magazine, Russian design magazine Interni and The Guardian newspaper and was delighted to create the painted Graffiti Piano for the Piano Shop and have his work on display in his home city.
The Graffiti Piano shows Andy’s fascination with the inner workings of a piano, making a futuristic psychedelic version of a piano that retains an organic, retro flow.
Charlotte Macmillan is also known as The Collagist, a multi-disciplinary artist with a preference for using thread and fabric. Charlotte creates subversively stitched outfits for performers such as Boy George, Coldplay and John Grant and designs bespoke stool tops for Design Pianos at The Piano Shop. With an interest in mixing up materials and methods Charlotte has recently been exploring digital print and laser cutting and has combined these with using her vintage Cornely chain stitcher to make the lantern quotes and Graffiti Piano stool top.
created the piano keys sculpture that has graced our windows since 2017 and, together with Jon Kelly, had the overarching vision for this latest installation: colour and music, beautiful materials, street art, graffiti and inspirational words that enable joyful, creative opportunities for local children. Julieann is known for her work as an artist and educator, as a lecturer at Bath School of Art, at the V&A London, as Creative Education Consultant to The Roche Court Educational Trust at the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park and as Artist in Residence at Three Ways Special School in Bath. She also creates sculpture to public, private and corporate commission nationally and internationally, including for the Museum of Childhood, Denver, USA, Chanel, Conran and many private collections.
Lanterns of Joy Could Be Yours!
Make a bid today to be in with a chance of owning one of these exclusive silk graffiti lanterns.
Each lantern has been hand-made in a collaboration between artists who have created bespoke pieces for Boy George, Coldplay, Conran and Chanel.
Your donation will enable disadvantaged children to experience the joy of art and music.
